| ▲ | zimpenfish 4 hours ago | |
He was on the BBC messing around with a Quantel Paintbox[0] (although 1987 seems much later than I remember it being.) [0] https://howard-hodgkin.com/resource/painting-with-light-quan... | ||
| ▲ | xnorswap 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
What strikes me about that is how much "dead air" there is without background music and how much of a long-format that was for broadcast. You just wouldn't get away with that on TV now, the closest thing is some twitch or youtube streams, but even they'd have relentless background music ( and donation/subscription thank you sounds ) and other media at the same time. But an actual non-live, edited programme? This whole 90 minute programme would be edited down to a 10 minute segment with endless repetition and audio stings, even on the BBC. To me this shows how much we've lost from the TV format and the ambition it once had. Somewhere since it has fallen into a weird combination of lack of ambition but with a self-congratulation, where programmes often restate what they are doing as being ground-breaking. | ||