14. Jul 2004 | http://flickwerk.wordwrap.de,
virtual reality +++
Do you know this feeling that someone who you only "know" through the media coverage he or she generates appears rather more like a figment of someone's twisted imagination than a real person?
Like Princess Diana who was/is in the media even after her death and, due to increased coverage, seemed, if anything, to exist more, not less, right after the accident?
Anyway, Kim "Kimble" Schmitz made the tabloids as the bad guy of the German New Media Hype and I registered his antics with than half an eye, perceiving him predominantly as a news-item: "Schmitz under palms with girls", "Schmitz" in jail.
Basically, "in jail" is the property I'd attached to the object of "Schmitz" till earlier tonight when he not only turned up at Frankfurt medienmittwoch, but also posed a question from the floor during the panel discussion. Afterwards, he stood in the lobby, with no throng of admierers sitting by his weirdly shoed feet, but apparently real.
Aus Anja Raus blog http://flickwerk.wordwrap.de