✖ Via
x-ray delta one photostream on FLickr: “Shopping by TV” from the Populuxe album.
• Oct 19, 2010 link notes tagged: art vintage ad technology communication television future past evolution consumption shopping girls woman
• Oct 19, 2010 link notes tagged: art vintage ad technology communication television future past evolution consumption shopping girls woman
✖ Via
Roger Ebert’s Journal: “Roger Ebert presents At the Movies” September 10th, 2010
“Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies,” a weekly half-hour film review program, was announced today by its producers, Chaz and Roger Ebert. The program continues the 35-year-old run of a reviewing format first introduced by Gene Siskel and Ebert and later by Ebert and Richard Roeper.
It will return to its birthplace, launching nationally on public television with presenting station WTTW Chicago, where it began in 1975 as “Opening Soon at a Theater Near You” and then in 1976 as “Sneak Previews,” became the highest rated entertainment show in PBS history. The original format moved into syndication as “At the Movies” in 1982 with Tribune Entertainment and a quarter-century with Buena Vista Television.
The Eberts said the new program will air in January 2011, and in addition to reviewing new movies will expand into coverage of New Media, special segments on classics, on-demand viewing and genres, and an extended website. It will use the copyrighted “Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down”® format made famous by Siskel & Ebert. (read on)
• Sep 17, 2010 link notes tagged: art film movie cinema critic history America United-States television show Roger Ebert
 | Me: Ugh, what are you watching? Lady: 30 Rock. Me: I know, but…do you notice anything weird about it? Her: No. Me: You see that big, black border around the whole thing, and how it looks and sounds all cruddy? Her: No. I don’t. Me: Really? You don’t see how the picture is all shrunk down in the screen and everything’s a little chunky and blurry? Her: No. I don’t care. Me: Okay, watch this. [Goes through the guide up to the 400s where the HD is.] Okay, are you watching? Her: [Not watching. Playing with the dog and laughing because he did something cute.] Me: Okay, are you watching? [Swaps channels, engulfed in a glorious wave of fidelitous sound and image.] Her:… Me: You see that? Her: No. I don’t care. Me: … Her: … Me: I love you. Her: [Laughs at the stupid dog.] |
Same thing goes with aspect ratio. I know people (whom I love and respect) who are able to watch a whole film in the wrong aspect ratio (they’ll watch 16/9 in 4/3). You’ll tell them: “Those cowboy sure are thin and tall…” and they’ll go “Huh?”
Lonely Sandwich is Adam Lisagor Tumblr blog. Alongside Merlin Mann and Scott Simpson, Lisagor runs You Look Nice Today “an audio-based Journal of Emotional Hygiene” (more about it).
• Aug 08, 2010 link notes reblogged from lonelysandwich [via] tagged: technology popular consumer television high definition HD aspect ratio film picture culture humor media
| The Big Brother isn’t a person as it turns out, it’s the collective consciousness that watches us. […] It’s not that living in public is going to be impose on us. We’re going to be conditioned to ask for it. |
“The 3rd millenium has been ushered into existence. No apocalypse. No Four Horsemen. No en to the world. No nothing. Nevertheless, Josh Harris, Internet entrepreneur and aspiring artist has decided that the 2nd coming is at hand. And “the new Messiah” is none other than Gilligan, that’s right, the Gilligan, from Gilligan’s Island. No, not Bob Denver, that actor playing Gilligan. He is but an avatar or the messianic life force, which is Gilligan himself. For Harris, life is a sad tug-of-war between those who control reality and those controlled by it. The weapon is media. And Harris, in an all-out onslaught on the world, has decided to make his own torpid existence into a new religion.” (errolmorris.com)
See also the documentary We Live In Public (Ondi Timoner, 2009)
• May 28, 2010 link notes tagged: technology communication art television Big Brother surveillance public private Twitter Facebook reality reality show
✖ Via The New Yorker: “People watching a thriller about bunny rabbits” by Bruce Eric Kaplan, May 3rd, 2010, p. 60
This is for all Lost’s fans out there.
About Bruce Eric Kaplan:
“Every morning (to this day, I have the same routine, except now I have a desk, albeit a pretty crappy one), I sit down and think about why I am disgruntled or why I am not as disgruntled as I was yesterday and out come these little drawings … after much angst and staring into space and occasional lying on the ground moaning. And each week I send off 10 or so to The New Yorker. And maybe the magazine buys one or two. (Or very often, none. I might mention here that sometimes I merely pump out insane bile that wouldn’t interest one single person on the planet, just like any other journal writer.) And then, finally, they are published. Mostly in The New Yorker, but sometimes in other places as well, such as L.A. Weekly. Maybe they appear days after I did them, but sometimes it is weeks, or months, or even years. And when I look at them, I think back to why I drew whatever I drew and I laugh. Or sometimes cringe. Or, every now and then, just wonder what the hell was wrong with me.” (more)
• May 23, 2010 link notes tagged: art television series lost animal thriller suspens etymology order chaos unknown uncertainty anxiety anguish deception cartoon humor illustration illustrator
✖ Via The New Yorker, March 22, 2010, p. 36: “Waiting for Godot and the cable guy” illustration by Michael Shaw
Previously on Skandalon: Michael Shaw
• Mar 29, 2010 link notes tagged: art illustration illustrator technology television theater humor existence life
✖ Via Jeremy Enecio’s blog: “The RGB”
Nice : an allegory of the RGB color model.
• Mar 20, 2010 link notes tagged: art artist illustration illustrator girls technology television video color allegory
| Milgram found that 62.5% of his subjects could be encouraged, browbeaten or intimidated into seeing the test through to its conclusion by delivering scores of shocks of increasing intensity to the maximum of 450 volts. In Game of Death, 81% of contestants went all the way by administering more than 20 shocks up to a maximum of 460 volts. Only 16 of the 80 subjects recruited for the fake game show refused the verbal prodding from the host — and pressure from the audience to keep dishing out the torture like a good sport — though most expressed misgivings or tried to pull out before being convinced otherwise. |
Learn more about the “Milgram experiment” on Wikipedia.
• Mar 18, 2010 link notes tagged: communication technology television vilence torture psychology ecperiment empathy pain autority reality show reality TV game play
✖ Via Abel Raises Cain, Jenny Abel and Jeff Hockett, 2004
About:
”ABEL RAISES CAIN is an unprecedented glimpse into the life and bizarre career of infamous underground media prankster, Alan Abel. Over the past half-century, Abel has made a name for himself several times over with stunts that are just ridiculous enough to be believable, especially to a media that feeds on salacious, far-fetched stories. Alan’s daughter, Jenny, tells her firsthand account of what it was like growing up with this lovable but slightly demented prankster for a father.”
• Mar 07, 2010 link notes [via] tagged: art communication hoax media news journalism America television documentary film movie filmmaker
✖ Via Alyssa Monks: “Rabbit Ears”, 40”x60”, oil on linen, 2003
• Feb 28, 2010 link notes tagged: couple everyday hyperrealism kids life painter painting photorealism realism sex technology television Alyssa Monk
| It sort of makes sense, actually: Junk food consumption is correlated with violent crime. Virtually all the criminals in prison across the country are nutritionally imbalanced due to their consumption of processed junk foods and their lack of sufficient nutritional supplementation. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if a study revealed that fried snack foods like Doritos are a favorite food among violent criminals. These are, after all, the kind of people depicted in some Doritos advertisements. In my view, the violent Doritos commercials accurately reflect the senseless, violent behavior that typifies people (younger males, mostly) who consume large quantities of processed junk foods, sugary soft drinks and gimmicky “sports drinks.” These are the people who end up being put on antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs, after which they sometimes end up in a school shooting rampage. It might make a good Doritos commercial, actually: A kid grows up on junk food and diet soda laced with aspartame. He’s drugged up on Ritalin and Prozac. One day he brings a semiautomatic rifle to school, barges into a classroom and opens fire on his classmates, shooting and screaming, “I WANT MY F*@!KING DORITOS!” |
I’m not sure if he meant to say TV cause violence or junk food cause violence. The two are probably linked (as previous studies already suggested). I’d really like to get my hands on the correlation coefficients used for this “analysis” though. Food consumption may be part of the explanation, it may also be a side effect caused by other factors (the same goes for television). Furthermore, I’m not very confortable with the whole scapegoating practice : blame it on the Doritos. Somehow, I doubt Doritos alone explain those (and I’ll avoid the cliché consisting in naming famous killers who were vegetarians).
Mike Adams is the Editor of NaturalNews.com. You can read his bio on his official website.
Learn more about Doritos’ latest marketing campaign Viralocity.
• Feb 28, 2010 link notes tagged: communication technology food junk television violence murderer rampage viral
✖ Via Drawn&Quarterly’s blog: “Season’s Greetings From CBS” by R.O. Blechman, 1966
“R. O. Blechman (born 1930) is an American animator, illustrator, children’s-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. He was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame in 1999. Blechman’s best-known works include the book The Juggler of Our Lady (1953), television commercials for Alka-Seltzer (1967) and other products, the animated PBS special Great Performances: The Soldier’s Tale, and 19 covers for The New Yorker magazine.” (Wikipedia). Visit R.O. Blechman official website.
• Dec 27, 2009 link notes tagged: art Christmas animation animator cartoon television vintage
✖ Via
Banksy: “TV has made us into monsters” (drawing).
• Sep 16, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: art communication technology television family critic fragmentation separation kids monster
✖ Via Abstruse Goose: “Electromagnetic Leak”
Abstruse Goose is a webcomic. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. See the ebook.
• Aug 19, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: art communication technology television space time history culture America analog
