here’s prax warrior, the winning entry into an early 80s bbc filmmaking contest for children
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look there is nothing alternative about this but i like it
it is going to snow here tomorrow
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I’m not sure where else to put this. (Maybe I should not put it anywhere.)
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here’s a good twitter account
https://twitter.com/IdentEveryHour
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BBC did these shorts of directors talking about a painting.
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TV’s TV was a four-hour block of late night TV that aired on Fuji TV on March 13, 1987. It was a series of 100 bits of short, random footage, seemingly selected from a wall of CRT TV screens. There’s a lot video game footage (both Japanese and American games) and early CGI animation, but also snippets of music (among others, there’s music videos for Devo, YMO and Kraftwerk), environmental footage, a weather forecast, footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing, etc.
There are 100 pieces of software in 100 TVs, and each one is switched on in order to see the contents of the TV. Image images entitled “TV Syndrome Self-Diagnosis Software” and environmental images entitled “SAISON Environmental Images” are inserted in between the state-of-the-art media art and classical media art of the time, such as video works and games. Many games for overseas PCs such as Apple , Amiga , and Atari are also introduced, and we are particular about introducing overseas versions that have not been released in Japan, instead of the arcade version and NES version released in Japan.
Produced by Jiro Komaki and Shinji Fukuhara . Both were young people who joined Fuji TV for several years at that time. In addition, SEDIC (Seibu Digital Communications, Media Art Division of Seibu Saison Group ) is cooperating in the production. The production producer is Tsunekazu Ishihara, who was enrolled in SEDIC at that time . Many young creators who later became famous as media artists such as Toshio Iwai who was in charge of CG, Masaya Matsuura who was in charge of BGM and EXPO ( Suguru Yamaguchi and Kimitaka Matsumae ) are participating. In addition, Hiroyuki Nakano, a videographer, was in charge of the TV syndrome . It was Iwai who drew 100 televisions in CG (Iwai’s first work using the Amiga), and became the prototype of “TV-kun” in the later " Ugo Ugo Ruuga " [1] .
The experience cultivated by the staff of Shinji Fukuhara and Toshio Iwai in this work will be utilized in their successful works " Einstein " (1990) and " Ugo Ugo Ruuga " (1992). In 2013, Fukuhara described it as " YouTube in 1987" by quoting comments from Nico Nico Douga . In addition, the decline of television, which raised the issue of TV’s TV, became a reality in the 21st century, and reiterated the need to incorporate elements other than television into television [2] .
Wow Toshio Iwai and Masaya Matsuura? Wow.
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oh fuck yes I love you @Victor
i seen it on Boing Boing thank you Boing Boing
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Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations was an anthology show on Kansas City public tv in the late 90s where three guys in a van went across the country to check out folk art, and things like a guy who had bought every type of barbed wire produced in america and made his own barbed wire museum somewhere in Kansas.
Most famous arts they visited include the corn palace and an interview with Wesley Willis.
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What a cool blog! I’m going to have to watch some of those recordings.
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i’ve seen this series before! it’s very interesting, i recommend
The Japan-only Wii video on demand channel “Wii no Ma” had this series called Shuuri, Misemasu. which consists of 10 minute episodes of someone repairing or maintaining something old. This playlist has all 14 episodes, and some of them appear to have English subtitles. It’s pretty chill, and I didn’t even know this Wii channel was a thing!
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I’ve been enjoying getting a daily dose of 全力坂 (Zenryokuzaka, or Full Power Slope) which consists of 30-45 second videos of Japanese celebrities (none of whom I’ve known so far) running up some random urban hill.
I’ll get the bad out of the way first: there’s an undeniable creep factor to the show in terms of how the camera lingers on the women who run for a few seconds after the fact. Apparently the show has been going on for 15 years and it has only very recently started allowing men on the show.
A lot of people seem to half-ass their run, so it’s great to see people who really go for it.
This channel has been uploading about one new clip a day and it’s really nice to get a little slice of niches I’m into: alternative human interaction with infrastructure / infrastructure interacting with terrain. I’d totally be on the show if I could but I will probably bootleg my own sometime instead. I did some hill sprints the other day after watching a few episodes – inspiring!
If anyone knows of a deeper archive of these I’d really love to see it! There are thousands of runs and this channel only has a couple hundred, presumably the more recent ones.
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Is this what the Kate Bush song is about
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arte is a state-sponsored (France & Germany) TV channel that co-produces a lot of shows, documentaries and movies, and some wacky concepts like this one, a show seemingly aimed at kids that explains abstract/difficult concepts (or bizarre stuff you never wanted to know) in three minutes
it is called ‘Wer nicht fragt, stirbt dumm’, which literally would translate to ‘he who does not ask, dies stupid’.
Might be geo-blocked, so someone uploaded a lot of them here
hope that works for people outside of yurop!
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i was curious about the origin of those weird singing/aerobics/english lesson videos, and i thought this excerpt from the wikipedia page was interesting
then i found this tweet, listing names of successor programming blocks
the only other videos i can find are compilations of idents
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wait no, here is the intro to a show that appears to be set and filmed in london
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