--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote: "BUT-- who was doing the camera work on that clip you posted? Steven Spielberg, or Oprah? :)"
Well, I think it was the tv show's producers. They started out with the formulaic cuts to the "photogenic" faces of the judges, but quickly realized they had a real story going in the singer. In these short cuts, he's got more than talent -- almost unreal effortlessness and pure tone! And he's shy!
BobW
> There's no doubt that guy's extremely talented.
> Shame
> his name sounds like "Pol Pot." And he works in a
> car
> phone warehouse (or something)!?
>
> That just reminds of Stephen Jay Gould's famous
> statement: "I am somehow less interested in the
> weight
> and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the
> near
> certainty that people of equal talent have lived and
> died in cotton fields and sweatshops." (And there's
> a
> similar morality fable or somesuch, about a man
> entering heaven, asked to name the most talented
> artist in history; the man answers something like
> "Michelangelo" and -- St. Peter( ?) -- replies that
> it
> was actually this obscure fellow no one's heard of,
> supremely gifted, but never given an earthly
> opportunity employ his talents. -- Anyone know this
> tale I'm talking about?)
>
> BUT-- who was doing the camera work on that clip you
> posted? Steven Spielberg, or Oprah? :)
>
> -B.
>
>
>
> Robert Wrubel wrote:
>
> "Watch the expression on the faces of the judges
> change in the first video!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA"
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