12/26/2023 0 Comments Chicago bean tradeDo you feel like this series is your baby now? How involved are you in the production? How do you decide what stories to tell? I would find other options.ĬM: You've done four Texas True Crime documentaries. Would you allow a person convicted of holding dogfights and murdering dogs to babysit your dog while you're away? But, you have to remember why he's there.ĬM: I'm not so sure that people change, at least not in all cases. Talking to him, he seems like he's been rehabilitated. He testified against the other defendants. He was convicted only of aggravated sexual assault. In this episode, Pure Evil, I interviewed somebody who was part of the crime. But it's a long process and they have a lot to prove they've changed through actions. Can people change? Yes, I believe people can change. So, when empathy or sympathy creeps in, you can't be taken by that. You have to remind yourself why they are where they are in prison. But the other prisoners are very far away from you, on the other side of very secure lines. You see the all the razor wire and security. You don't have much interaction with anybody else but the prisoner on the other side of the glass. You can only imagine what it's like on the other side. The part of the building we go through does have air conditioning. For me, it feels like you're going through security at the airport. JW: When we do an interview in a prison, we're separated from the general population. Maybe they're interested in finding out more about the person and his crime.ĬM: When you visit an inmate in prison, is it a chilling experience? Are you nervous? I've never been to one, but I'm told they have these CrimeCon conventions, like ComicCon, and most of the attendees are women. These guys are getting better women while behind bars than I ever did on the outside. I always hear about vicious killers in prison, who've committed the most gruesome murders imaginable, becoming sex symbols and receiving marriage proposals from women across the country. They could have been anybody's daughters.ĬM: I like a good train wreck as much as anybody. In this case, it was heartbreaking to think what happened to these young girls. Then people wind up watching crime stories. When they do surveys about what people want to see on TV, they say they would like more positive stories. JW: I think it makes people feel better about their own lives. What's your take on Houston's Cloud Column? Let Ken know in the comments, or on Twitter. Our sculpture is an Elvis imitator, Diamonique, a vegan hot dog, Webster sitcom, funny money. Why didn’t we order a sculpture and call it the Leaning Tower of Eiffel? Then two cities could be mocking us. Ten thousand sculptors out of work, we couldn’t find something else? In most cases, Houston is the butt of the joke. We’re offended by the ridicule coming from way up I-45? Worse, we’re surprised? The story of the battling beans has been picked up by media around the country. What do you think we did? We - sort of - copied Chicago’s Bean sculpture. If Chicago unveiled a piece of art, and it looked almost identical to Waterwall Park, we’d be screaming, howling, and laughing - and calling Chicago unoriginal, uninspired, and inferior. There’s no confusion what city they’re in. But I have seen the Venus de Milo in Paris, David in Florence, the Pieta in Rome and the Rocky statue in Philadelphia. I had no idea there was a sculpture of a bean in Chicago. You want a symbol for Houston? How about a sculpture of a young family hammering a “Sold” sign on their first home? They hope our Bean will become a tourist landmark, a public treasure, a symbol for Houston. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Glassell School of Art are behind our Cloud Column. Chicago’s went on display first, so theirs is first. Turns out, Houston’s bean was created before Chicago’s, and sat in storage for years.
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