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Video: Irate NYU Film School Graduate Tears Street Performer To Shreds
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John Del Signore
Published Oct 15, 2013
Modified Oct 11, 2018
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And here we have a self-proclaimed NYU Film School graduate who really does NOT want to hear ANOTHER NOTE from a sidewalk trumpet player. Over the course of nearly four minutes captured on video, he unleashes a torrent of oddly eloquent criticism, deriding the trumpeter as "a miserable presumptuous no-talent. You're no artist! An artist respects the silence that serves the foundation of creativity! You obviously don't have the talent. You don't have enough respect for yourself or other people to express yourself in music or any other form of creativity! And I'm an NYU Film School graduate, SUCKA!... You SUCK!" It goes on:
Man, NYU really did a number on that guy. It's a shame he doesn't state his name for the camera so we can go rent all his films tonight and see how real artists do it. [Via Reddit]
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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