posts tagged ‘television’
Watchings
20 January 2012 • watchings
tags: cinema, control, death, dystopia, fantasy, fiction, humour, love, politics, television, tv series
• Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn
• Sherlock, Season 2 (2012)
Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat
• Black Mirror (2011)
Charlie Brooker
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Billy Wilder
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Edgar Wright
• The Pillow Book (1996)
Peter Greenaway
• Point Blank (1967)
John Boorman
• Kick-Ass (2010)
Matthew Vaughn
• The Last Enemy (2008)
Noises can tell you everything
7 January 2012 • out of context
tags: noise, quotes, sound, television, tv series
Sherlock Holmes: There’s going to be a loud noise.
The Woman (Irene Adler): So what?
Sherlock Holmes: Oh, noises are important. Noises can tell you everything.
Sherlock, A Scandal in Belgravia (season 2, episode 1)
Readings
1 November 2011 • readings
tags: aesthetics, articles, books, comics, death, hauntology, history, imagination, machines, noise, novels, phonography, psychogeography, robots, science, television, texts, vampires, zombies
• Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard [read]
Tom McCarthy, The Guardian, Saturday 24 July 2010
• El elogio de la sombra [leer]
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
• Lenore #1-13
Roman Dirge
• Psychogeography [read]
Merlin Coverley
• Words Made Flesh. Code, Culture, Imagination [read]
Florian Cramer
• Jacques Attali, author of Noise (1977). Speaking at the ICA, London, May 2001 [read]
Watchings
8 October 2011 • watchings
tags: capitalism, cinema, comedy, documentaries, drugs, economy, humour, love, music, noise, perception, politics, sound, television, tv series, vampires
• Half Nelson (2006)
Ryan Fleck
• Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Craig Gillespie
• Sound of Noise (2010)
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
• The Shock Doctrine (2009)
Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-6 (2005-2011)
Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Nicholas Stoller
• True Blood, Season 4 (2011)
Allan Ball
• The IT Crowd, Seasons 1-4 (2006-2010)
Graham Linehan
• Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn
Retroactive continuity
18 August 2011 • out of context
tags: books, cinema, fiction, quotes, television
Retroactive continuity (often shortened to retcon) is an oxymoron that refers to the alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work.
Watchings
6 March 2011 • watchings
tags: activism, apocalypse, capitalism, cinema, consumism, control, copy, data, documentaries, economy, music, politics, sound, television, tv series
• The Walking Dead (2010)
Frank Darabont
• Sound in Context (2009) [watch]
• The Social Network (2010)
David Fincher
• Remington Steele, Seasons 1-5 (1982-1987)
Robert Butler and Michael Gleason
• The Eye of the Heart (2003)
Mark Kidel
• Artscape – Stephen Vitiello – Listening With Intent [watch]
• The New Sound Of Music (1979) [watch]
• SYGNOK & The War For Radical Computer Music (2011) [watch]
• The Future of Art (2011) [watch]
Listenings
25 February 2011 • listenings
tags: minimal, noise, podcasts, radio, television, tv series
• Ficción, televisión y series [listen]
• Immersion : Three (2007)
Steve Roach
• Swift Machine (2005)
Gilles Aubry, Antoine Chessex and Torsten Papenheim
• Spin (2010) [listen]
Hatori Yumi
• Transrapid (2002)
Alva Noto
• Bektop (2010)
Kabutogani
Watchings
26 January 2011 • watchings
tags: anguish, apocalypse, chaos, comedy, conscience, death, documentaries, drugs, electricity, fiction, humour, television, tv series, uncertainty, zombies
• Arduino The Documentary (2010) [watch]
• Dead Set (2008)
Charlie Brooker
• Misfits, Season 2 (2010)
Howard Overman
• Sherlock, Season 1 (2010)
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
• Dexter, Season 5 (2010)
• Breaking Bad, Seasons 1-3 (2008-2010)
Vince Gilligan
• Sons of Anarchy, Season 3 (2010)
Kurt Sutter
• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-5 (2005-2010)
Carter Bays and Craig Thomas
• The Big Bang Theory, Seasons 1-3 (2007-2010)
Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady
Pastiches
26 January 2011 • out of context
tags: books, cinema, fiction, quotes, television, tv series
“En efecto, casi todas las series son muestras de puro bricolaje, es decir pastiches de referencias tomadas de aquí y allá, provenientes de películas, de otras series, de cómics o de obras literarias, una colección de alusiones, homenajes, plagios, guiños, etc”.