What imitates what?

Happy Belated Valentine's Day, everyone!

So, everything seems right in reality TV world, at least with the beauties and the geeks. On the final episode of BATG, Nate halfway redeemed himself by urging a lot of the eliminated contestants to vote for Megan & Scooter, the other team who deserved it much more. I liked Megan the more I saw of her, she was always in good humour, joked about herself good-naturedly and really seemed to throw herself into new things and expand as a person. I don't know if Cecille is really that deluded or if the producers just told her to be so hateful to make good TV. On The Bachelor reality TV series, they always seem to have a villainess-type girl who makes it to the final 3, and BATG seems as formulaic in that sense as the other reality TV shows I've seen. Wait, is the reality TV formulaic or is it reality itself that's formulaic and TV is just imitating life?

My creative juices are stewing. I've been thinking about light and colour and space, and wish I had a large room, time, video equipment, and a few thousand (thousand?) for materials to make any installation I wanted. I'm not great with tools and building, so maybe these things will never exist in reality... I need to learn to use technology better than it uses me.

I hope Oscar Wilde was right when he said: Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.