Simone Stolzoff

So an example from a movie that I saw relatively recently, it's called In and of Itself.

And it was a magician who did this live show, but instead of it just being sort of a series of tricks, it was also a narrative about his own identity as a magician.

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I know at the beginning, everyone chooses like a label that they use to identify themselves.

And then he sort of interrogates it person by person.

I mean, it's really, really cool.

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I'll give one more sort of deep cut recommendation, which is this DJ named Kid Koala.

And he does a show unlike anything I've ever seen before.

It is a play with puppets on a stage that is filmed live and then streamed for the audience.

And so as an audience member,

You can watch the sort of narrative play out live on the stage with the puppets, or you can watch the video that is sort of very cinematic on the screen ahead of you.

And he's live mixing music behind it.

And it's one of those things that it's like you have to be there to experience it.

And it was just the conviction of one person to be like, I'm going to create a wholly different genre of art, you know, live theater puppetry.

And I have so much respect for that.

type of work.

And that's really one source of curiosity for me is like, how can I always be thinking about the edge of what it means to be a writer or to bring that new things into the world?

This comes from a friend of mine named Emily Onhalt.