nothing works... but then again...
telling stories... while tv-time is ticking... and just going in all kinds of directions... note the ending that self-reflexively deals with time and subverts in this crazy way the whole idea of what time is..
here is one of his weird-surreal things with objects!
just objects:
here is the real famous one, the Kitchen Symphony:
Now Kovacs humor is obviously a bit of another time... but not perhaps as one might think...
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anyhow... on a completely different track....
here is this guy who does an economics show (which has been criticized quite a bit)... wherein he runs around sorta crazy-like while advising people on how to play the market...
Cramer's Mad Money
... check out his buttons and sound effects (he used to do radio) that he uses to punctuate what he is talking about... its this sorta thing that could be useful...
the weird thing here is the mad rush to explain what are good ideas and analysis while super packed with high-energy things is going on...tv-time demanding constant high-exciting energy... and this serious analysis... THAT is what could be useful.. all these buttons... and high-pressure... yet doing simple things (that have complexity to them)...
the women singer is great! i see me in the helmet pretending 'singing' and things on stage go wrong, we could have some things done out cartoon boxes may be with written words and drawings: market, free economy, communism, media, marx, inbetween some banal images as well.
ReplyDeleteyes yes!
ReplyDeletei know that one is hysterical.. really just so crazy....
ReplyDeleteit actually reminds me when i just saw it of some of the stage setups and things that were being explored by Yvonne Rainer and other Judson people...
i just mean at the end.. when the Kovacs stage completely falls apart.. you see a guy on a swing! (i mean its just crazy!)... well. Yvonne Rainer also did some weird things with stage set ups like this.. not the mad, crazy humor so much (at all back then) but these weird dis-located stage set ups...
Kovacs was beloved by many of this generation in the avant-garde in the U.S.....