{"id":7702,"date":"2012-05-19T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2012-05-19T15:31:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:31:02","slug":"life-imitating-art-imitating-life-imitating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7702","title":{"rendered":"Life, imitating art, imitating life, imitating…"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know those media-based\u00a0clich\u00e9s? The kind of imagery that television has served up for years? You might not see one for ages, then unexpectedly there is one right in front of you.<\/p>\n

Last Monday evening I went in to the East End (or is it ‘east end’?) of that London to help Ash (the coolest guy in the world)<\/a> make a video.<\/p>\n

The venue was the office of the music magazine, The Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I shall not open up what was done, who said what or the things that were discussed.<\/p>\n

Instead, I’ll just concentrate on the offices of The Wire magazine.<\/p>\n

If you were watching a TV dramatisation, and the scene shifted to ‘the offices of a music magazine’, you would, with a sense of inevitability, find yourself looking at a converted loft in the east end (East End?) of London.<\/p>\n

Inside the TV set of the converted loft, we would see an open expanse of trendy office space. Large, metal-banded windows would throw an expanse of sunlight across the stripped-pine floor. Artificial light would beam down from spotlights set high in the vaulted ceiling, throwing oases of illumination across the office expanse.<\/p>\n

Racks, made from pale wood, would line the two longest walls; open-ended boxes of paperwork and magazines would share shelves with industry-defining books and acres of vinyl – of all shapes and sizes.<\/p>\n

Island-clusters of desks, littered with paperwork and stacked high, in hap-hazard towers, with CDs would share the office space; computer monitors and keyboards would be festooned with post-it notes.<\/p>\n

Music would be leaking in to the office atmosphere from industrial-sized loudspeakers.<\/p>\n

That’s the TV set that the designers would show you.<\/p>\n

And the offices of The Wire magazine?<\/p>\n

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I’m not too sure what might be\u00a0imitating\u00a0what…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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