Video is an entirely new medium for me and I've found that a pleasurable way to enjoy the learning curve is to to choose images that interest or amuse me...and console me as I struggle to learn the most basic video techniques. I realized that the iconic image of Bettie Page has been in been uploaded into my brain along with Santa, The Easter Bunny, Mona Lisa and Betty Crocker...a Betty of an entirely different cloth & stripe. What more attractive subject for a 'study' than the exquisite Miss Betty Page? Add a couple of Dancing Christmas Trees, a School pageant and the obligatory Sexy Eunuch/Faun, and you've got Kismet-on-a-Stick. After struggling to make my video make-believe world come alive in a festive Christmasy fashion...I posted it to YouTube.
At the same time: Bettie Page's death was being announced to the media. It is actually a bit hard to explain the impact of her death...since I'd just spent the better part of a week staring at her image and obsessing about her. The first comment posted about the Video was "I miss her already". A lot of us miss her.
