Zombisquatsi

Godfrey Reggio, creator of Koyaanisquatsi and Powasqquatsi has made an 8-minute film of children's faces as they watch television. Godfrey says of the film:

Unlike people in a movie theatre, where images are projected onto a screen, television viewers become prey to the television’s own light impulses, they go into an altered state - a transfixed condition where the eyes, the mind, the breathing of the subject is clearly under the control of an outside force. In a poetic sense and without exaggerating one might say that the television technology is eating the subjects who sit before its gaze.

Immediately, this scene from Truffaut's 400 Blows came to mind:



Evidence of the difference between television and LIVE performance?

Real Painful Reality TV

Dahlia Lithwick's must-read review of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Washington D.C.

And a Megan McCain/Michaele Salahi love-fest interview on The Daily Beast.

The show premieres tonight on Bravo - 8pm Central time.

Louis CK Gets it Right, Again

I had read some good reviews of the new Louis CK show on FX. After seeing this clip, I will make a point of watching it. Andrew Sullivan says of this scene:

A brilliant little scene about gay men, straight men and words - from one of the most brilliant comics around, Louis CK. In all this, there is a lovely American sanity - not too much defensiveness, a whole lot of candor, and a deep well of friendship.

Today's Award for Most "Distractingly Boring"

Photos of Charles Brogdon's On the Set, Famous Hollywood Studio Sets in Miniature. Miniature of the kitchen in "Roseanne" pictured.

Same-Sex Marriage and Glee!

From Frank Rich in the New York Times:

"...the most significant marital event of June 2010 is the one taking place in San Francisco this Wednesday, when a Federal District Court judge is scheduled to hear the closing arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the landmark case challenging Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban."

And --

Dramatically enough, “Glee” generated an unexpected real-life story last weekend to match its fictional plots. The Times’s Sunday wedding pages chronicled the Massachusetts same-sex marriage of Jane Lynch, the actress who steals the show as Sue Sylvester, the cheerleading coach who is the students’ comic nemesis. It’s a sunny article until you read that Lynch’s spouse, a clinical psychologist named Lara Embry, had to fight a legal battle to gain visitation rights with her 10-year-old adoptive daughter from a previous relationship.