HELLO. HI. HEY.

This is my (Ted's) newsletter/rambling

Hello, Hi, Hey.

That was the name of a show a guy at my university did where he got up and walked around the stage to an instrumental version of Feel It Still by Portugal: The Man. He did this once in a blue wash lighting state, then it stopped. Then he did the exact same thing, movement for movement, in a yellow wash. Then he did the same thing again with a red wash. I remember when he started for the third time, the entire audience groaned.

That’s what I predict the reaction to this newsletter to be.

The question behind his piece was can only a change in lighting change the meaning of the exact same scene? The answer, as it turns out, is no.

The bloke that made the piece is the same person, by the way, who once sat me down and told me that he didn’t think Heath Ledger was that good in The Dark Knight and that he would have done a better job. He then proceeded to do his own interpretation of the Joker. Never feared for my life more.

People gave Hello. Hi. Hey. the benefit of the doubt the first time, then the second time confusion kicked in and when it happened again the audience turned. I feel all one of you reading is giving this the benefit of the doubt right now but if my second article was just this again in a different font, you’d be angrier than an ant in Antarctica: LIVID. That ant would be so cold! You’re not meant to be in the Antarctic, you’re an ant!

The guy who made Hello. Hi. Hey. set out with the intention of creating a wonderful piece of profound art but ended up just getting his step count up in different colours. Maybe that’s all this will be, just increasing my word count with no real point. Fundamentally, however, I think a newsletter is different to a play.

And I will die on that hill.

I hope you like whatever this turns out to be.

Your friend and mine,

Ted