Tag Archives: TV
links for 2009-12-17: TV-as-art, Copenhagen fudgerama
Emily Nussbaum on When TV Became Art – The 00's Issue — New York Magazine Whatever else the '00s might or might not have going for them, it was beyond serious doubt the most amazing time for (some) television. Odd, … more…
links for 2007-11-22: Adam Curtis interview
Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot | The Register Andrew Orlowski interviews Adam Curtis. (via LinkMachineGo) (tags: BBC blogs documentary politics sociology tv)
links for 2007-10-15: David Simon
Profiles: Stealing Life: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Lengthy profile of David Simon, anticipating season five of The Wire (tags: newyorker culture tv thewire)
links for 2007-09-06: dumped
AlterNet: MediaCulture: Dumped: Could You Survive on a Landfill? Some unsuspecting reality TV contestants who signed up for an “eco-challenge” were dumped on a landfill for three weeks and learned to survive on other people s garbage. (tags: TV environment … more…
links for 2007-08-09: Derek Bailey
On The Edge: Derek Bailey rightly famed 4-part series on improvisation in music added to UBUWEB. (via CityofSound) (tags: improvisation music documentary Derek-Bailey)
Intel Inside: musical meanings in an ad and a jingle
Here’s an example of one of the ways that YouTube should be genuinely valuable: in decoding and deconstructing propaganda. This particular instance, a thirty second ad for the Pentium processor from 1995, examines the jingle especially closely. (via Madame Lévy)
links for 2007-07-23: Sopranos
A Northern New Jersey of the Mind – NYRB via Robot Wisdom (tags: Sopranos TV-drama NYRB)
Olbermann, 5th July
Already widely acclaimed about the place, this clip should be inserted into online reference works under “Incandescence”. Comments have included anxious injunctions about driving cars, getting into private planes, so forth. Enthusiasm wishes him all the best, even if it’s … more…
links for 2007-06-29: Ballard’s Thirteen to Centaurus
YouTube – JG Ballard’s Thirteen to Centaurus (Out of the Unknown) 1965 production of Ballard story. via Ballardian, of course (tags: jg-ballard youtube)
The Singing Ringing Tree
Rather to my surprise — seeing this for the first time since 1964, when I was five years old — The Singing Ringing Tree (1957) managed to be almost as weird as I remembered it. The highlights reel you see … more…