Great Time for Makeup Artists (week 2)

I’ll start by speaking briefly about the music videos we watched this week: The Dancing Pig terrified me beyond measure and Take On Me is one of my FAVORITE music videos of ALL TIME. It was kind of awesome to watch the progression on the music video – although, I have to say, I like today’s music videos more than that horror story of a pig one. We've come a long way and I hope we never, ever go back.

The article was really interesting. I remember when there as a new station when we got the boxes for television. It was like 15.2 or something like that. It had only played music videos for a while: kind of as a tribute to MTV – or at least, what MTV was. And I really did find myself tuning in and out. I really enjoyed the station but it wasn’t something that I wanted to watch 24/7. Until then, I had always wondered what happened to MTV. I really do thing the internet is more suited for music videos. That new station on TV, by the way, is no longer a music video channel anymore, either. It’s an “all black” channel. Which I find silly.

The craziest part of this article, I find, is when it talks about the makeup artist. “’I once had a makeup person send a list of airplanes they refused to fly on, the type of rental car that had to be available and the acceptable size of their hotel room," says Nigel Dick, who has directed clips for Guns N' Roses and Britney Spears, among others.” I find it crazy and fairly rude when an actor or a singer have these kind of demands. But for something to be so big that a makeup artist can make these sort of demands as well? It must have been a great time to be a makeup artist.