Comments on: The Opera that Will Change Your Mind http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/06/the-opera-that-will-change-your-mind/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:38:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Steve Kretzmann http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/06/the-opera-that-will-change-your-mind/#comment-6152 Steve Kretzmann Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:15:23 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/06/the-opera-that-will-change-your-mind/#comment-6152 This is really a fantastic piece. I certainly hope that PLATFORM will consider putting out a video version which will allow many more of us to experience this. Also would be a bit less carbon intensive than flying to London to experience it! But if you're already going, this is a great way to spend some time. Extra points for this bit of perhaps unintentional cheekiness from James Marriott: "...unlike other art forms, where everything that happens is intentional, unexpected things can occur which adds to the experience of the listener and to what we are trying to say.” Translation? If you get hit by a bus while listening, it really drives the point home! :-) This is really a fantastic piece. I certainly hope that PLATFORM will consider putting out a video version which will allow many more of us to experience this. Also would be a bit less carbon intensive than flying to London to experience it! But if you’re already going, this is a great way to spend some time.

Extra points for this bit of perhaps unintentional cheekiness from James Marriott: “…unlike other art forms, where everything that happens is intentional, unexpected things can occur which adds to the experience of the listener and to what we are trying to say.”

Translation? If you get hit by a bus while listening, it really drives the point home!
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