Features tagged "Obstructions"
3rd Obstruction: The 5 Obstructions of Sam Twyford-Moore
For those of you following the ‘Five Obstructions of Sam Twyford-Moore’ you may be wondering what’s been happening since Feb 6 when we challenged STM to rewrite his story in outline form to make him focus on the bare bones elements. This was an attempt to draw out a sense of direction in the work [...]
2nd Obstruction: The 5 Obstructions of Sam Twyford-Moore
Well, STM came through again, delivering to us what we think is his best piece yet. It’s fresh, it’s met the challenges head on and is highly readable. (see below.) It did set off a bit of a discussion between the two torturers, DMH and RM, which we thought we should relate below. DMH: He’s [...]
1st Obstruction: The 5 Obstructions of Sam Twyford-Moore
The 17th of November came and STM delivered his reprise on time. Since then we have done a light copy edit and you can read how it turned out below. STM has done well with the first round of obstructions. He began a little rockily, dumping a good deal of back story on the reader [...]
The 5 Obstructions of Sam Twyford-Moore
The background Has everyone seen the film The Five Obstructions? (IMDB) It features two players: a protagonist, Jørgen Leth, elder statesman of Danish arts and director of the 1967 short The Perfect Human, and an antagonist, the younger Danish director Lars von Trier. Over the course of the film, Lars asks Jørgen to remake The Perfect Human five times in reaction to [...]
Crime and Beer tickets
Young Henry’s beer tasting platter = 4 ponies (or 2 schmiddies), a copy of the new magazine, and a fun afternoon of chatting and music.
