Tag: Television
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Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
50 years ago today a kid’s program debuted in the United States which was to change the lives of millions of children worldwide – Sesame Street. A mix of muppets and modern educational psychology, the idea was to reach urban kids and those who weren’t getting good early schooling with basic lessons to give them…
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Malcolm Clarke on the Radiophonic Workshop
Malcolm Clarke was a composer and engineer for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, composing the music for many Doctor Who series. Apparently he wrote about the Workshop and his career for a thesis on interactive CD format (remember them?) and his son Ollie with Ray White has wisely converted and adapted the format for the web…
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Drink
A simple idea – put a large bucket of water out with a waterproof Go Pro at the bottom, and film the results. It probably helps to be in the desert, but still…fascinating the ripples and the animals that come to drink, and strangely relaxing. Well apart from the intro ‘news theme’ which I could…
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Instamatic – TV Nation mashup
TV Nation is a mashup that has been hanging around in multiple demo forms since 2008, now thanks to better stems and acapellas it’s finished (I know I said I retired but this was an opportunity too good to miss, always wanted this to work – also always wanted to do a good Daft Punk…
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Cyanide & Happiness – The Series
Oh I love this, especially the liferaft one, and the human infestation…they finally went and did a series! Something I always wanted… I was going to say ‘TV TAKE NOTE’ – but fuck mainstream media. Fuck it sideways with a rake. And fuck that people only think stuff on a major channel has legitimacy. If…
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Too Many Cooks
So has Adult Swim been looking at Weird Twitter and Weird YouTube too long? Or just too many David Lynch shows. This doesn’t end up where you expect…