Comments on: The Day There Was No News

The Day There Was No News

SpacemanStix — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:03:05 -0800

The Day There Was No News is moving in its simplicity. The music is from Ben Frost's Theory of Machines, which is pretty good in its own right.

By: champthom

champthom — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:08:01 -0800

If there wasn't any news, they'd just make some.

By: docpops

docpops — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:16:23 -0800

Seems like they could have gotten by with fewer anchors.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:34:04 -0800

Bugg called it ;-)

By: kozad

kozad — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:39:18 -0800

Worth three times its weight in zazen.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:42:48 -0800

Awesome, but I think "Nobody died today" would be pretty big news.

By: device55

device55 — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:05:47 -0800

is there no weather on the day there's no news?

By: Exchequer

Exchequer — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:05:59 -0800

Are broadcasts like that copyrighted? What is the protocol on Flickr for re-posting material that is sourced from the 'net?

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:21:37 -0800

bah, after I saw it everywhere else I decided not to post it here. oh well, it is still neat.

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:36:19 -0800

It looked more like a "commercial breaks for newscasters" montage to me, but the profound-sounding music helped pull this out from the jaws of contrivance. OR DID IT.

By: naju

naju — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:47:49 -0800

Isn't this just a ripoff of this video from over a year ago?

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:52:06 -0800

No News? Wow, that is news! also, I blogged about this yesterday! In YOUR face Metafilter.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:41:18 -0800

Damn, naju. You nailed it. Still, Frost is good. His "Steel Wound" album is great.

By: SpacemanStix

SpacemanStix — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:11:44 -0800

Isn't this just a ripoff of this video from over a year ago? Well that's kind of a bummer. And both of them use the BBC even.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:29:18 -0800

No I'm sure there's some heart-warming 'dog adopts kittens' 'And Finally' story out there...

By: cavalier

cavalier — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:51:47 -0800

So the Flickr 'No Video!' people lost, huh?

By: oxford blue

oxford blue — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:19:20 -0800

I like this new one better than the one from a year ago.