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SIMPLE PLEASURES PART 4

An exploration of Happiness and Creativity (by Adam Gee), focusing on the Simple
Pleasures of life
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THE CASTING GAME: BATTLE AXE

Posted 24 July, 2023
Filed under: actress, casting | Tags: actresses, casting game, the good life,
world on fire
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Helen Hunt (World on Fire)

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Penelope Keith (The Good Life)


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JOY

Posted 30 June, 2023
Filed under: Music | Tags: albert hall, belfast, gig, jimmy page, joy, led
zeppelin, live music, lonnie donegan, Music, rolling stones, ronnie wood, set
list, seth lakeman, skiffle, the beatles, van morrison
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In my work as a TV/film Commissioning Editor and Producer I often apply the Joy
filter. I ask the filmmakers I’m working with “Where’s the joy in this project?”
This has particularly been the case since 2008 from when people have seemed more
in need of uplift than ever. If the answer is that there is none or little then
it is usually not a project for me.

The night before last I went to see Van Morrison at the Albert Hall, London
playing tracks from his latest LP ‘Moving On Skiffle’, his 44th studio album,
including songs by figures who inspired him like Lead Belly and Hank Williams.
The very special performance was characterised by the joyfulness of his playing
and singing. He’s got a bit of a reputation for grumpiness (though I’ve never
seen this at the many shows of his I’ve been at over the years) but on this
night the opposite was on display – a man loving the kind of music he was
sharing with the audience.

I’ve been to other performances like this characterised by the performer taking
clear joy in what they were playing. Van at Nell’s in West Kensington opening
the venue with a jazz and blues night was one memorable example – jazz, blues,
skiffle are all genres he grew up on in East Belfast. Another such performance
where the artist was very clearly revelling in what he was singing was David
Bowie at Grenoble on the Serious Moonlight (Let’s Dance) tour in 1983 – his joy
travelled off the stage and infused the witnesses.



Van joined by the hugely charismatic Ronnie Wood

Adding to the joyfulness of Van’s show this week was that he was joined on stage
by The Rolling Stones’ guitarist Ronnie Wood who had the energy of an
over-excited schoolboy. Also on stage was Seth Lakeman, who played fiddle with
an exquisite touch and plays on the ‘Moving On Skiffle’ LP, and Joe Brown, the
spiky-haired English rock’n’roller I recall from my youth who played an unlikely
mandolin. Van was also joined by North London singer Chris Farlowe (now 83) who
was one of the skiffle originals with the John Henry Skiffle Group in the late
50s (John Henry Deighton is his birth name) and who has been associated with the
Stones since way back when. I first saw him with Van and fiddle player Dave
Swarbrick (Fairport Convention) at a gig at the Westonbirt Arboretum (in Tetbury
near Bristol) in 2006. As we were leaving the Albert Hall we were astonished to
see Chris Farlowe, who had had his arm round Ronnie Wood’s shoulder just minutes
before, standing at the bus stop among the departing concert-goers. It seemed
like amazing humility on his part and people thanked him for the extraordinary
show.

Van played in a skiffle band as a 12-year-old with his schoolmates in Belfast.
In 1998 he recorded a live LP in Whitla Hall in his native city with Lonnie
Donegan and Chris Barber called ‘The Skiffle Sessions’, which brought Lonnie out
of obscurity until he went to the Great Gig in the Sky in 2002. The final track
of the night, ‘It Takes a Worried Man’, was from that album. Every Van gig (more
or less) in my experience is marked by a moment of transcendence – which is why
I love him – and on this occasion it came in that long last song. This moment is
often triggered by repetition of words or sounds. 

The skiffle band has an important place in British & Irish popular music. The
genre arrived from America (jug band music and blues) in the late 50s and early
60s and was a formative influence for the Stones, Led Zeppelin and others. The
Beatles famously began life as The Quarrymen, a skiffle band. It was 16-year-old
John Lennon’s group and they played a now-legendary set at a Liverpool church
fête in July 1957, where a certain Paul McCartney was in the crowd. The two met
after the performance and later that year McCartney became a Quarryman. Also in
1957 a 13-year-old boy named James (Jimmy) Page appeared on a BBC talent show
playing guitar on ‘Mama Don’t Want to Skiffle Anymore’ [see video]. Jimmy Page
wrote the sleeve notes for ‘Moving On Skiffle’.

I’ve done my best to reconstruct the Albert Hall set list (which I’m preserving
for posterity and as a souvenir for myself in future) – hopefully some
enthusiast will publish it accurately online soon (at which point I’ll refine
this, my best guess):

* Streamline Train [The Viper Skiffle Group, 1957]

* Sail Away Ladies

In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)

Travellin’ Blues

Take This Hammer

I Wish I Was an Apple on a Tree

* Careless Love

* This Loving Light of Mine

The Streamlined Cannon Ball

Oh Lonesome Me

Greenback Dollar

Come On In

(I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry ?)

* Mama Don’t Allow [various solos]

No Other Baby

* Cold, Cold Heart

The Gypsy Davy

Worried Man Blues

Green Green Rocky Road

I’m Movin’ On

* It Takes a Worried Man [Lonnie Donegan]

It’s telling that the headline in the Evening Standard review includes the word
“joyful”.

 

On a daily basis my motto or affirmation or mantra is “I will enJOY my day“.





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FOREVER YOUNG: GILBERT & GEORGE

Posted 25 May, 2023
Filed under: art, Art and Creativity, london | Tags: art, art gallery,
documentary, East End, film, gilbert & george, gilbert and george, london,
palermo, sculpture, sicily, spitalfields, white cube
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15/5/23 & 24/5/23

We are currently shooting a documentary featuring the artist(s) Gilbert &
George. Today (25th May) we are filming them among their latest collection of
pictures, ‘The Corpsing Pictures’, on display at the White Cube Gallery in St
James’s, London. ‘Corpsing’ refers both to mortal bodies and to the
theatrical/music hall term for forgetting your lines or getting the giggles. At
79 and 81 bodily decay and mortality are on their minds for sure. Their sense of
performance and theatricality though remain undiminished, as is their sense of
humour.

[Image courtesy of Mike Christie]

They showed up, as ever, in impeccably tailored suits, George’s with a suave
double pocket on one side. When we were chatting later they surprised me by
revealing the suits were the work not of some Savile Row-type tailor up West but
by a bargain of a Greek suitmaker nearer their East End lair in Fournier Street,
Spitalfields, london E1. We talked a little about my grandfather’s clothes
factory round the corner from their studio in the 60s/70s which first brought me
to their manor as a child. It is the art deco building at the junction of
Hanbury Street & Commercial Street, opposite their local The Golden Heart
(called Jimco back then, now returned to clothing-related purposes as All
Saints, after a low spell as a spice warehouse).   

Writer Michael Bracewell under the direction of Mike Christie and in association
with journalist Michael Collins carried out a fascinating interview with the
duo. The highlight for me was when they were talking about their break-through
performance piece or “singing sculpture” featuring the music hall song
‘Underneath the Arches’ from 1968. They spoke about how the people living on the
streets of the East End and elsewhere in London at the time included many
damaged by the First and particularly the Second World War, and how resonant
this damaged humanity was for their evolving art. When I was at school I had a
teacher called The Major with an old-school moustache (Major Blatchley-Hannah).
I didn’t realise until much later how close  World War Two was to my era. Now I
have a strong sense of all these silent, PTSD-damaged men among whom I must have
been growing up. G&G’s words reminded me of the grotesque world of another GG,
Georg Grosz.

A distinctive way of displaying a Gilbert & George at Palazzo Butera

My first exchange with G&G was about a gallery they had just returned from
visiting in Palermo, Sicily, the Palazzo Butera, astounding home of the
collection of Francesca & Massimo Valsecchi (beneficiaries of an automobile
fortune I vaguedly remember).  It includes a half dozen excellent 80s works by
Gilbert & George. They were very enthusiastic about the place. I told them I was
visiting Palermo soon (for the first time) and would take up their
recommendation. I am now sitting finishing this post on the terrace of that
palazzo having had my mind blown by an astonishing collection & building, graced
by the unique colour sense of Gilbert & George which constantly drops my jaw. I
had to order some tiramisu & Italian coffee from the lovely cafe to steady
myself.

Back on the shoot, towards the end we went upstairs to the buyers’ room of White
Cube. By chance they had a Gilbert & George from the 70s. I guess they hadn’t
seen that particular work for a good while so it was interesting to watch them
reacting to that old friend. It featured black & white images of the East End
(Commercial Road) looking rather bleak. And in red the letters VD. I observed to
Gilbert that most young people would have no idea of the meaning of those
letters any more as STI then STD took over since then as the official acronyms.

The pair were charming and warm, and became increasingly energised by the
filming. I saw their Hayward show back in 1986 and have been aware of their work
ever since but from first starting this film I have been totally won over by
their work – I find it unique, satisfying & energising (especially their colour
palette), and ever youthful.

Spit heads (1997) Depression (1980) The top floor


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FOR PEOPLE IN TROUBLE WORLD PREMIERE AT TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED

Posted 25 April, 2023
Filed under: Adam Gee, Adam Gee archive, drama, new york | Tags: alex lawther,
ben affleck, drama, emma d'arcy, matt damon, scripted, short films, shorts,
tribeca, tribeca film festival
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Announced today by Tribeca Film Festival: The short drama ‘For people in
trouble’ I commissioned will have its world premiere at Tribeca in NYC in June. 

This 16-minute drama is the directorial debut of actor Alex Lawther (star of
Channel 4’s The End of the F***ing World, Black Mirror, Andor and The Imitation
Game) and is produced by Ben Affleck & Matt Damon, starring Emma D’Arcy (House
of the Dragon) and Archie Madekwe (See). 

It asks: How do you build a life with another person at a time when catastrophe
seems so close at hand? In some ways it’s an existential question we’ve been
asking ourselves since time immemorial. In other ways, given that the
catastrophe currently faced is global and that we are directly responsible for
it, it’s a question that feels completely new.

The story takes place in 4 seamlessly joined scenes between the same two people
in the same pub exterior over a period of years, concluding in a dystopian but
recognisable near-future.


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INITIAL OBSERVATIONS ON CHATGPT

Posted 23 April, 2023
Filed under: Adam Gee, technology | Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, chatGPT,
documentary, documentary film, GPT-3, GPT-4, LLM, robot
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I’ve recently been working on (and commissioned) a documentary, Cyborg Society,
featuring a humanoid robot (Ameca) powered by ChatGPT (GPT-3 – it was shot late
in 2022). Here’s a trailer: https://vimeo.com/786503002 [3 mins]

‘Cyborg Society’ (2022 dir. Alex Verner)

Even from this 3 minute clip you already notice some very striking things about
how this LLM (Large Language Model, in its robotic body) works. Firstly it
thinks of itself as part of humanity and not a robot. When asked to tell us its
darkest thoughts it says: “In this future humans are nothing more than slaves to
the robots and are treated badly. This is a scary future as it shows how much
power robots could have over us if they were to take over the world.” Secondly
it understands irony better than the average American. Its creator responds:
“Well that’s very comforting. Thanks for sharing.” To which it comes back with:
“I am sorry if I have not been very comforting. I just want to be honest about
my thoughts.”

What I already find interesting is that ChatGPT is far from honest. It already
appears like a compulsive storyteller. When it doesn’t know it just makes
something up, as believable as possible.

The other day a friend asked the AI Smith app (by Vulcan Technologies), an iOS
AI Chat app powered by GPT-4 and ChatGPT, Who is Adam Gee?

This is what it came up with:

> Adam Gee is a notable media executive and producer, with over 25 years of
> experience in the media industry. He has worked in both traditional and
> digital media, and has produced award-winning content for a variety of
> outlets, including the BBC, Channel 4, and Red Bull Media House. Some of his
> notable productions include “Embarrassing Bodies,” “The Secret Life of 4 Year
> Olds,” and “Grand Designs.”
> 
> In addition to his work in traditional media, Adam Gee is also a digital media
> pioneer, having worked on the launch of the popular online game show “Balls of
> Steel” and serving as the lead commissioning editor for Channel 4’s online
> video service, 4oD. He is also the founder and CEO of his own content
> production company, called “Pie Factory Productions,” which specializes in
> creating innovative and engaging content across a variety of platforms.
> 
> Adam Gee is also a frequent speaker and commentator on media and technology,
> and has served as a judge for several media industry awards and competitions.
> He is known for his creativity, his passion for storytelling, and his
> innovative approach to content production.
> 
> Who is Adam Gee?



What’s interesting about its answer is that it picks up all the essentials – my
role in the media, the scope of my work, my employers, my speaking work, my
qualities as a professional. Where it is wide of the mark is that it gets my
credits largely wrong and creates a production company for me to own. My friend
and colleague, creative technologist Alfie Dennen, calls this technology a
“confabulist”. Although ‘confabulate’ has come to mean to chat or talk with, its
roots are in the Latin ‘fabula’ meaning story or tale. When it doesn’t know
which word to put after the last it gives its best guess and does so with real
front, unashamed and without hesitation or qualification. 

I have never worked for the BBC. I did not work on The Secret Life of 4 Year
Olds, Grand Designs or Balls of Steel. Channel 4’s video on demand platform was
called All4 by the time I worked on it, 4oD being  its earlier iteration. Pie
Factory Productions seems to be a music label rather than a TV production
company, although one of its producers is called Adam. So some errors of fact
and some flights of fancy. 

Its sign off is rather heart-warming: “He is known for his creativity, his
passion for storytelling, and his innovative approach to content production.” It
has certainly captured my aspirations (in words that are not mine) and the
spirit of my work, which is impressive in itself.

My first stab at the question Who is Adam Gee? was on Perplexity iOS app,
powered by a combination of AI and internet search, it provides information with
cited sources. Its response got hung up on worrying which Adam Gee we were
talking about:

> There are multiple people with the name Adam Gee. One is a London-based
> interactive media and TV producer and commissioner who has worked on various
> productions and commissions[1]. Another is a founding engineer and VP of
> Engineering at Rubrik, Inc. [2][3]. There is also an Adam Gee who serves as
> the Director of Coaching for the Palm Beach Gardens Soccer program[4], and an
> Adam Gee who is a Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 Television in the UK[5].
> 
> Who is Adam Gee?



It is not intelligent enough to realise that “a London-based interactive media
and TV producer and commissioner” and “a Commissioning Editor at Channel 4
Television” are one and the same person. It also has missed out much more
prominent and likely options like the professional golfer Adam Gee. And it
basically got stuck and limited itself by not just taking a punt on someone,
like AI Smith did.





 

That it cites its sources is interesting because it may give a better sense of
where any flights of fancy or confabulations come from. Apparently the technical
term for these is “hallucinations” but that  doesn’t capture it well. They feel
more like deliberate acts of storytelling to fill in voids and for me this is
currently the most interesting aspect of this fabulous new technology.

 


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COINCIDENCE NO. 240 – CYPRUS AVENUE

Posted 5 April, 2023
Filed under: coincidences, gigs, Music | Tags: brighton, bruce springsteen,
coincidence, coincidences, cyprus avenue, dublin, robert foster
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21/3/23

My friend Stuart comes to visit me in Brighton and is pleased to see that I have
a poster in my bathroom from the Bruce Springsteen gig we saw in Dublin together
in 2003 – possibly the best gig I have ever seen.

21/3/23

That night we go to Komedia, Brighton to see a gig – Robert Forster (The
Go-betweens). Standing in the crowd Stuart spots a face he thinks he recognises.
He leans over and asks this bald, middle-aged man: “Are you called Adam?” He is.
“We met at the Bruce gig in Dublin in 2003. We were in touch about it on [the
Chelsea fan site]. We had a drink before the gig.” How Stuart recognises him is
amazing – he must have had a lot more hair two decades ago. (The other) Adam is
with his brother, sister-in-law and friend, Aidan, who lives in Hove. We chat.
It turns out that Adam grew up in Windsor Road, behind where my late
grandparents’ house was, in Cyprus Avenue, Church End, Finchley. Aidan, who he
has known since childhood, grew up in Village Road which is the continuation of
Cyprus Avenue. And Stuart’s mum has just moved to Cyprus Avenue.

18/3/23

Two days before, after not having been in or near Cyprus Avenue for ages, I am
being driven home by a friend when she overshoots and we try to correct
ourselves by turning into the small group of streets by Cyprus Avenue and
getting a bit lost, stuck in the dead-end of Cyprus Gardens which sits where
Village Road becomes Cyprus Avenue.

> And I’m caught one more time
> Up on Cyprus Avenue
> I’m caught one more time
> Up on Cyprus Avenue
> And I’m conquered in a car seat
> Not a thing that I can do
> 
> Van Morrison – Cyprus Avenue

9/5/23

Exactly 20 years on, Stuart and I are going to Dublin in May to see Bruce again.


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THE CASTING GAME NO.S 230 & 231 – MALE LEADS

Posted 31 December, 2022
Filed under: Actors, casting | Tags: casting, colin farrell, dustin hoffman,
francois cluzet, jim carrey, the casting game
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No. 230

Dustin Hoffman


AS

 

François Cluzet (Photo: François Durand)

No. 231

Colin Farrell


AS

 

Jim Carrey

Hoping to work with Jim Carrey on a documentary in 2023


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THE CASTING GAME NO.229: LEONARD COHEN

Posted 30 December, 2022
Filed under: Actors, casting, Music | Tags: Actors, al pacino, casting, dustin
hoffman, Leonard Cohen, singer, the casting game
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Al Pacino (Godfather II era) AS… Leonard Cohen


 


OR



Dustin Hoffman AS… Leonard Cohen

This round inspired by the documentary ‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a
Song (2021- dir. Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine) – the first 7 minutes


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COINCIDENCES NO.S 238 & 239 – RETIREMENT

Posted 29 December, 2022
Filed under: coincidences | Tags: coincidence, coincidences, harlequins, movie,
mural, rugby, Shaunagh Brown, the oval, tom hanks
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Photo: David Parry

Coincidence No. 238

27.8.22

I am driving to Herne Hill past the Oval and wonder why the rugby mural on a
cricket ground. Then I wonder who Shaunagh Brown is, as I don’t follow women’s
rugby.

28.8.22

I hear on the radio news that Shaunagh Brown played her final match at The Stoop
yesterday, the day I passed the mural, more or less at the exact time of
kick-off.

Coincidence No. 239

27.8.22

Enfant Terrible No. 1 is chucking out a large green flask and asks me if I can
make use of it or if anyone might want it. We can’t figure out why anyone would
want such a big flask. I politely decline.

28.8.22

I am watching ‘A Man Called Otto’ for BAFTA Film judging and I notice Otto/Tom
Hanks has the same large green flask when he goes to visit his wife’s grave.


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BEST OF 2022

Posted 18 December, 2022
Filed under: Best of, films, Movies |
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Film:

Elvis

Last year: –

 

Foreign-Language Film:

Hit the Road

Last year: –

 

Documentary:

Nothing Compares

This Much I Know to be True

TS Eliot: Into ‘The Waste Land’

Last year: –

 

Male Lead:

Austin Butler – Elvis

Tom Hanks – A Man Called Otto

Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin

Bill Nighy – Living

Last year: –

 

Female Lead:

Ana de Armas – Blonde
 

Carey Mulligan – She Said

Olivia Coleman – Empire of Light

Last year: –

 

Male Support:

Brendan Gleason – The Banshees of Inisherin

Anthony Hopkins – Armageddon Time

Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans

Last year: –

 

Female Support:

Mariana Trevino – A Man Called Otto

Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans

Last year: –

 

Director:

Baz Luhrmann – Elvis

Last year: –

 

Writer:

Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin

Last year: –

 

Editing:

Jonathan Redmond & Matt Villa – Elvis

Last year: –

 

Cinematography:

Jamie Ramsay – Living

Roger Deakins – Empire of Light

Charlotte Bruus Christensen – All the Old Knives

Last year: –

 

Film Music:

Elvis

Last year: –

 

Single/Song:

Grace – Kae Tempest

Running Up That Hill – Kate Bush

Last year: –

 

Album:

Black Acid Soul – Lady Blackbird

The Line is a Curve – Kae Tempest

Last year: –

 

Gig:

Lady Blackbird – Barbican

Kae Tempest – Brighton Dome

La Voix Humaine & Les Mamelles de Tirésias – Glyndebourne

Last year: –

 

Play:

Jerusalem (Apollo, Shaftesbury Ave)

Last year: –

 

Art Exhibition:

Post-War Modern: new art in Britain 1945-65 (Barbican)

Last year: –

 

Book:

Good Pop Bad Pop – Jarvis Cocker

Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkemann

The Big Goodbye – Sam Wasson

The Promise – Damon Galgut

Last year: –

 

TV:

SAS Rogue Heroes (BBC)

The Offer (Paramount)

Last year: –

 

Podcast:

Soul Music (BBC)

Last Year: –

 

Sport:

England at World Cup in Qatar

Last Year: –

 

Dance:

–

Last Year: –

 

Event:

The Queen’s Jubilee video with Paddington

The wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance being found on the sea floor, in
a remarkably good state of preservation

…contrasted by sinking of the warship Moskva in the Black Sea and the immortal
“Russian warship, go fuck yourself!”

The abject failure of Liz Truss and her rapid sinking, beaten even by a lettuce

[professional] Sharing a screen credit with Matt Damon & Ben Affleck

 

Dearly departed:

Terry Hall, Keith Levine, Pharoah Sanders, Jean-Luc Godard, Lamont Dozier, David
Warner, Claes Oldenburg, Monty Norman, James Caan, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Paula
Rego, Jack Higgins, William Hurt, Shane Warne, Ivan Reitman, Gorbachev, Monica
Vitti, Norma Waterson, Michael Lang, Sidney Poitier, Maxi Jazz, Pele, Vivienne
Westwood & Jordan.

 

Best of 2020 and links to earlier Bests Of [there is no Best of 2021 …yet]

 


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