Blogging the Fringe

Saturday 25 August 2007

Storyboard

Parking violations are taken pretty seriously during the festival.

If you study the following pictures carefully, you can probably use your imagination for the accompanying swearing, yelling, and hair-tearing.










On the bright side, it's a great way to encourage the use of public transportation and walking.


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Singing for your Supper



If Napoleon Dynamite and that kid from Superbad decided to start a two man ukulele band that both practiced, and rocked out, on the streets of Edinburgh, it would look a little something like the above video.

Among the performers and flyers of the Royal Mile, this little bit of homegrown fun is irresistibly campy. I pass them almost every day, but this time decided to stop and realized that the little button on the side of my camera is for “record.”

Enthusiastically singing Dr. Hook’s classic “On the Cover of Rolling Stone,” these two ne’er-do-wells prove that not all musicians are getting laid…

…sometimes, it’s just about the music, man.



On a side note, I was so impressed with myself for "discovering" the ability to create moving pictures that I started jumping and giggling in what could have been misinterpreted as girlish enthusiasm and hot-to-trot fever.

The truth is out: I’m a sucker for the ukulele.


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