Comments on: Big Screen Version

Big Screen Version

nitsuj — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:52:03 -0800

Big Screen Version [.mov, 9.5MB - 3 min.] is the title of a short film described as "Split-screen talking heads and flying graphics collide in a musical homage to the self-righteous rhetoric of Fox News." made by film and videographer Aaron Valdez. Other gems of his include Politics, Any Way You Slice It, and his regularly updated vlog.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:59:20 -0800

reminiscent of Emergency Broadcast Network.

By: inthe80s

inthe80s — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:06:54 -0800

I think you need ADD to enjoy something like that. What is the point of this?

By: slogger

slogger — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:10:24 -0800

I must have ADD. Fantastic.

By: Relay

Relay — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:16:23 -0800

Great stuff. And Moonbird, that's what I thought too.

By: JeffK

JeffK — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:32:50 -0800

I do have ADD. Loved it!

By: funambulist

funambulist — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:42:50 -0800

I don't have ADD and still loved it. My eyes were hurting during the stroboscopic bits though! - what is the bit after "you have nightmares..."? and the "... good business"? I can't make it out.

By: Doorstop

Doorstop — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:48:16 -0800

yayyyy stroboscopic! yaaaaayyyy epilepsy!!! i really loved it, but fear i might get cancer from watching such a condensed burst of fox news.

By: shortfuse

shortfuse — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:50:48 -0800

Also reminiscent of Hexstatic. Especially Deadly Media (self-link).

By: lemonfridge

lemonfridge — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:53:45 -0800

nipple-clips

By: squirrel

squirrel — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:25:41 -0800

See also TV Sheriff. And a second for Emergency Broadcast Network. This Fox bit is okay, but those previous masters must be viewed to be believed.

By: Imperfect

Imperfect — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:32:55 -0800

Fox. Means. Nipple clips. Awesome.

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:39:36 -0800

The best use of this technology was by Omar Faust in "CNN Concatenated"......it is hysterically funny. For CNN Concatenated (2002), Omer Fast compiled a ten-thousand-word database from recordings of newscasters and commentators on CNN, then rearranged the spliced words into existential monologues that are directly addressed to the viewer. CNN Concatenated becomes a mesmerizing, darkly humorous questioning of the viewer's psychologicalstate and agency within a media-saturated environment If anyone can find a copy of this, I'll gladly pay for it!

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:14:11 -0800

Good lord that sucked.

By: grimcity

grimcity — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:10:34 -0800

Damn, that was pretty good... I dug it.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:19:18 -0800

Wendel?

By: jettloe

jettloe — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:57:58 -0800

OK - but yeah the Emergency Broadcast Network does better stuff overall - but always nice to see an emerging form - at least it's better than watching Space Cadets...