Another scene from Big Machine, which was wonderfully produced. Rosie, one of the leaders of the workers, confronts the plant manager, named - very oddly, sorry - Methuselah. He is a sympathetic character, too, stuck in a corporate assignment away from his family, another cog in the machine.
The real work starts tonight as the main part of The Fringe schedule begins. I’ll probably shoot at least 20 shows in the next six days. Then I have to edit all of it.
Midgley's legacy is tied in with the negative environmental impact of leaded gasoline and freon. Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history", and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny". Fred Pearce, writing for New Scientist, described Midgley as a "one-man environmental disaster".
In this scene, Midgely dodges a reporter’s questions about what he hath wrought.
I hope I got this straight. One of the nice things about being the Fringe’s photographer is that I get to see so many and such a variety of theatrical productions. A downside is that I often pay more attention to gathering images than to the performance itself. If I’m correct, Maliah Strawbridge plays Grace, the precocious daughter of one of the factory workers. Her mother has died from cancer and her father struggles to support them. She is so smart that she has made a working model of a Model T (I think) engine, without much positive reinforcement. She goes on to play a sad part later in the story.
Because, well, I’m scrounging for material. However, how would you like to end most of your days looking at this? It might be hard to see at this resolution, but I like the row of telephone poles vanishing toward the horizon.
Lots of stuff coming up. There is a free blues festival at the Arch this weekend, and the St. Louis Fringe Festival (I’m the photographer) is about to start.
