This is just too weird.
I’ve noticed hits on my site in the last couple of days from people searching for Paula Skimin, the improvising tapdance geek
who opened for Lenni Jabour in September. Being a good little glory-seeking weblogger, any time I see a search engine hit, I run the same query to see where I am… and, amazingly, I discovered that I’m the world’s number one authority
on Paula.
That’s not the weird part, although I do think it’s kinda cool.
The weird part starts here (or, more specifically, here), with a video of Paula, produced by Andrew Fedosov, on CBC’s ZeD site.
It’s not weird because of Paula; she, and the video, are quite interesting and not weird, in fact. It’s not weird because some of the footage is from her performance at the aforementioned concert, although that’s getting a little warmer. It’s not weird because I didn’t even notice (until now) that there was a video camera there. It’s not weird because I recognized David Peters and Drew Birston in the video either. It’s not weird because you can see Andrew and Sarah in one of the later shots… but that’s white-hot. Nope, the weird thing is that the very last few frames of the video zoom in on the audience, and right there (well, a little off to the left) is my happy little face.
I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille.
Update 1: OK, so apparently the video is quite dark on some monitors, to the point where they can’t even be adjusted high enough to see the last few frames. Guess I’ll be anonymous for a while longer.
Update 2: Another odd coincidence: my friend and officemate Mike actually watched Paula’s video when it first aired on CBC.
