In 2023, I created an interdisciplinary arts project that merges my best comedic storytelling with my 30-year background in musical composition and borrowing heavily from my professional experience in web development and visual design. I’ve channeled all of my expertise and skills into this project to create a unique and innovative work of art, music and entertainment.
Writing is at the heart of what Day For Night is, mostly due to the creative nature of work which is sometimes self-initiated, and where there are characters, stories and situations, but the mythology or back-story is left to be explored. It’s been my journey since the age of 10, and which informs my current work ‘Epiphanies’.
It was Tuesday, November 3rd, 1998 and we had just come out of the commercial break during Felicity… The scene was late afternoon, and Noel Crane, residential advisor at New York’s Kelvin Hall found himself sitting before Dean Allison in an episode about academic dishonesty. Noel namedropped his website URL, www.noelcrane.com, for the first time on-air […]
A few months ago, I was sorting through some old files, and I came across a rather curious paragraph, written by me. It was from a note written to myself back in 1998 – rather a difficult year of personal relationships – and it read: Thoughts on Noel Crane…Denial? “Why must I experience all of […]
It’s not the first time that JJ called me with an idea about how to mix the internet and television. We’d had this kind of talk before, so when it came up preceding ALIAS, few words were exchanged, and I already knew pretty much what he wanted to set up; we’d already tested it, to […]
Art Direction, Custom Site Development and Copywriting Since 1985, Two Chefs/Bakkavor (Two Chefs On A Roll) has risen from a small, wholesale dessert company to a full range manufacturer of custom and private label savory and bakery products. Taking great pride in developing true partners, Two Chefs work to design and manufacture culinary products that […]
“I sometimes find it difficult to imagine what my life will be like, working some day as a designer or art director in the world of advertising. Special importance is placed upon every designer’s ability to express him or herself clearly; also to be able to explain that work. Its relevance. But more often than […]
It’s a very man-made idea, isn’t it! We think often in terms of a dimensional universe, where we’ve assigned time to be that “unseen” one — just like cartoon characters can’t see the third dimension, we are unable to see time; and yet we assume that it controls us. It’s an interesting hypothesis, that perhaps […]
You can’t label me. I’m an American. I’m an artist too. And speaking at you, as a free-speech artist, I can assure you that your interest in curbing my free speech is threatening me having a good day. Of course, censorship is a big buzz. We are even getting conditioned to respond to the sound […]
Once in a while, notice what happens when one person overwhelms another with information, on a sort of quantitative level. I like to notice this when it happens, it’s really interesting. One day, Fred may be speaking to Lucy on a sort of authoritative kind of level — about servers and computers and streaming technologies. […]
With 3 mains I took my first bash at making ‘serious’ instrumental music. Someone put this idea in my head, for the first time, that to be a proper composer, you had to be a proper pianist. And I had never, until then, considered taking composition studies or lessons in order to define that; I […]
This is the last page. Not to suggest that we’ve actually run out of things to say. This is merely the page at the bottom, which stops the pages above it from spilling out all over the place. © 2001 – 2011 Eric Scott / Editions La Nuit Americaine. All rights reserved. Texts may […]
If you want what you cannot have (and therefore don’t want what you can have), then create want, by first creating a belief that you cannot have what you already do have.
Feel this deliberately: “I am going to feel trulypissed off now. For 10 minutes.” “How does that feel?”
The phone ringing throws me into a brief panic. In a work day, there’s simply too many sales calls incoming to risk the gamble of ending up on the phone talking to a wasteful stranger, and not to have it be a one-sided call you’d otherwise prefer to hang up on. “It’s someone who wants […]
I arrived at the performance; it was an unusual; that is to say, “customized” venue: a blackened hole in the railway cabling, where the audience shuffled in, past a decaying beam and trellis structure. The stage was lit by tungsten green haloes, hung in reinforced lead cables; it was a former tube-hole, with the […]
Represented as an object or tool, like a remote control, or a pair of binoculars, that you keep with you throughout the experience; when pulled out, can take you to a new information level.
Videotape of the Day 024 rehearsal:An audioVisual record of the Day 024 rehearsal:Elements:Gtr + Pod –> Mixpad |Room mic –> Mixpad | –> Camera L&RCD (drums)–> Mixpad |Picture is: eric playing the guitar to a prerecorded CD track of drum groove…Music stand with parts… these are “fed” by a “producer” working with charts, organized by […]
A road to a more enlightened age, pulling away from the downward spiral that cultural illiteracy or post-literacy seems to be indicating. Accelerated technology and planned obsolescence should not be the focus. A decreased emphasis on MULTImedia as a road for channel surfing, net surfing, browsing. Attention spans need to grow longer, not shorter. Technology […]
The future of the web relies upon:1. The quickest route to finding the content that interests you…2. Finding better ways (and more of them) to use the Internet to make money, either by utilizing content, or by providing it. Remember…you decide; you draw your own conclusions… The only punishable questionis the one I dare not […]
A walk-in or walk-thru magazine…a living periodical. Every month, the gallery changes. It is advertised, at newsstands, on television, and in other periodicals, with a repro cover image and masthead, but exists only in person…Readers may subscribe to it, and receive a discount…It is closed two days at month’s ending for set-up and reinstallation. Meanwhile, […]
How can the word “dynamic” apply to meaning? Perhaps we can create a context where we pre-visualize a setting – a site where the “interactive reading is to take place — and basing the rest upon a pre-history — namely, the user’s own back-story – he or she can assimilate new fiction as an ongoing […]
Blog (Eric Scott: Words) | Podcast An evolving online work, “Obsessions” incorporates Eric Scott‘s essays and Situationist rants of the hour.“…Filtered through me, everything – values, music, inspiration, comedy, art, sound, nature, archival strategies, typography, the Spectacle – eventually becomes Day For Night.”View OBSESSIONS Blog
As we unroll new pieces, we observe how others are playing, and ask:• How did they play last week?• What are they saying?• What do they expect?• How do we best stay out of their way?• What story are we telling?• What’s the bigger, over-arcing picture…a cohesive, or underlying theme defining how we present ourselves?
Namely, where there exists fact, there also exists “red herrings”…On television and in film, much of what we take for granted is removed for reasons of engaging the viewer’s focus, and helping to present the director’s vision in a single arc with minimal distraction. With an on-demand, or interactive basis for a web puzzle, the […]
Any creative property has a backstory; namely, the part that is interesting to the audience because it suggests the overarcing theme and humanity of the story. It is the history, and it also suggests that there will be a future after the entertainment is supposedly over. It enriches the story line and invites the audience […]
