MOTHER/UCB in Malcolm Gladwell's new book BLINK

[dorothy]

Perhaps this has already been discussed on the IRC but in Malcolm Gladwell's new book BLINK there is quite a bit devoted to the art of improv and describes one of Mother's scenes as well as gives examples from Del Close.

 

[Drifter Luke]

Gladwell is friendly with one of the members of Mother.

I think it's a great way for him to illustrate BLINK, since the book is about thin-slicing and intuition (although he'd not use the word intuition) and god knows Improv deals with trusting your instincts and gaining a large amount of information from a teeny nugget of data.

 

[Dunford]

For the lazy among you, the passage in question is from pages 111 to 117 in the hardcover edition on sale at booksellers. It's worth reading, all.

 

[mattmoses]

I'm just about finished with this book and highly recommend it. Anyone else reading it?

 

[benorbeen]

Fuck, are you kidding me?? This is a book I felt would be helpful for mine. Now it sounds as if it'd REALLY be helpful for mine!

I saw the guy on the TODAY show.