It’s been linked here before somewhere but just posting bc of the tangential connection, this block aired a really good Jun Togawa performance of some French pop covers
Those bumpers caught on video
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I’m not even much of a Godard fan, but I’m loving this article about his involvement in the creation of the first TV station in Mozambique under its post-colonial marxist government.
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extremely, extremely hard to be such an outwardly political artist while never becoming didactic. massive respect for that and for everything else
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A crossover with the St.Giga thread, check out what I just found:
An autotranslated description from an old Japanese blog:
Do you know St.GIGA? It is a broadcasting station that once did digital music broadcasting using the empty channel band of BS 5ch.
At first, there was no timetable, and I liked the fact that they played a combination of natural sounds and music according to the tide, and there was almost no talking.
For a while after the station opened, terrestrial Fuji Television ran a 25-minute program of natural scenery and music created in collaboration with St.GIGA in the late-night slot. This is " Quiet Mode ".
The vibes here are immaculate. Just a lot of cool footage of dolphins swimming and playing while excellent 90’s house music plays. I’d love to find more of this show.
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generated Seinfeld scripts read by generated voices in a recorded videogame
the music is what really sells it
https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever
I can’t tell if this is more like a voiced chatbot or like someone translated Simlish
It barely understands where to place a laugh break or end the scene, sometimes they just hang out for ten seconds…cut to establishing shot and mouth sounds
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I was watching this earlier and one of not Jerry’s stand up bits was “why don’t icebergs get the blues? Because they’re always on the move!” Sublime nonsense
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it’s weirdly hard to stop watching
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The stand up parts are so bizarre.
Sometimes it’s a rambling pseudo joke like “speaking of circles, I ate so many bagels it gave me a bread buzz” and sometimes he’s reading stage directions and encouraging everyone to dance.
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I’m really curious if the animations are that way intentionally or if they…just asked the system to lerp between poses? I’m assuming this is running a game engine and they had to build interaction nodes, there’s clearly only a handful of animations, they sometimes have look at targets work and sometimes not. The animation issues are almost all real things I’ve seen but it’s not easy to get all of them at once unless you’re trying.
It makes me laugh, though
One of the first things I saw when watching it yesterday was George going to sit on the couch and then just falling straight through it into the void. Later in another scene, he was sitting on the other couch and then Elaine sat in the same spot so they were overlapping the same space.
One bit was Jerry going “I know a new dance, watch me” then goes into the kitchen to use the Microwave
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this happened to me with him on the chair and her in her lap, right after being like ‘LETS GO RIDE THE NEW ROLLERCOASTER IN TOWN’ like his lap was the rollercoaster
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The hips are attracted to the chair, then the waist and legs just sort of spaghetti around til they’re in place.
Looks like watchmeforever got itself banned after they switched the AI for 10 minutes because it was glitching out, which apparently was enough time for it to start spouting transphobia
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Totally not surprised
here’s something i discovered this morning: bbc select. an experimental subscription service that ran from 1992 to 1995. technologically, there’s two points of interest. first, it was a subscription service running on regular over-the-air terrestrial analogue tv. second, the decoder box you needed to view it (called the “bbc selector”) also emitted an “infra red pulse” as programming began, which acted in the same way as pressing buttons on your vcr remote, to tell your vcr to start recording.
the reason it had to do this is because all its programming aired in the absolute dead of night, and it was all specialist informational programming for professionals in the legal, medical, and educational fields. as a result, there’s very little of it available online, snce i guess people in those lines of work aren’t often the kind of weird nerds who upload obscure old broadcasting ephemra to the internet decades later. but there is this promotional video, which is pretty informative!
the cutesy setup with the dog kind of paints a totally different picture of what would air on this service imo
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I’m so glad Painting with John got a third season.
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there was a daytime british tv show in the 1970s called houseparty. it started in media res, with no intro besides a logo sliently appearing onscreen for a few seconds, and the whole show was a group of middle class women having conversations. they never acknowledge the camera’s presence, and at the end, the show just fades out, their conversations still going on.
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