Herewith, with my thanks, the cast:
Accordion player: squeezeboxhero
(Australian?) dude reading message and then smacking to wall: coreworkouts
American guy yelling "Marfa!" in a rant-like way: mel864
Plastic bag man: robertocarlos
Redneck character in blue sunglasses: johnwright238
Zombie: kristylynn
Psycho Welshman: facebook_poster
British banana: bethan
Peapod dancer: haleylujah
Funky dancer in brown shorts: coreworkouts (again)
Accordion guy (again): squeezeboxhero
Girl in elephant mask and Marfa sign: reticent
Guy in fur hat with Marfa sign: newsfromstreet
Swimmer with Marfa sign: rubikart
OK, what is truly mind-warping is that I don't know their real names and I don't know where they live nor where they filmed any of these. And these previously impossible, even unthinkable, digital juxtapositions interest me as something to explore in the book I'm about to start writing. When I did my last travel book, Miraculous Air, about Mexico's Baja California peninsula, in the late 1990s, almost no one (outside of a very few people in Tijuana, Ensenada and Los Cabos) was on-line and it was quite the novelty that a telephone or two had arrived in some villages. Now, looking at Marfa, Texas and environs (Alpine, Fort Davis, Valentine, Marathon, and the Big Bend), I find restaurants tweeting their breakfast menus and the local lamp shop on Youtube. I've yet to do a podcast-- the project starts in January-- but I'm already following a small community of West Texas tweeters, and you can follow me @marfamondays.
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