This just in…absolutely nothing. Imagine, if you will, a day without news.
Jason Arber created a thought provoking video of “The Day There Was No News”.
Adam Buxton created a similar “No News” video in early 2007.
Both of these videos do well to illustrate the old saying “no news, is good news”.
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This theme was covered in a Bloom County strip long, long ago. Back afore your fancy “Internets” with their “embedded video” and such.
(Not trying to ding the Onion, I well know that there are a finite number of funny things in the universe and two people can easily stumble up on the same idea. Heck, I really don’t even have a problem with them jacking it.)
There was a play about this a few months back at the Berkeley Rep called Tragedy: A Tragedy. They managed to stretch this to 1.5 hours if you can believe it.
http://berkeleyrep.org/season/0708/2117.asp
I loved Bloom County. Why are all the women in this video blonde?
I’m pretty sure this was originally a gag by Armando Iannucci, as part of the 2006 Time Trumpet Series on the BBC:
http://www.timetrumpet.co.uk/
Not that I can actually back that up with a clip URL, of course, but it’s a show worth pointing out nonetheless.
Too late to catch this play in its run at Berkeley Rep about the main news of the day being… the sun goes down…possibly for good (or worse).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga0k4yC9_A0
Will Eno’s Tragedy: a tragedy is very much about something inchoate happening…or not!
A couple years back there was quite a bit of controversy in the Israeli art scene, when a well-known video artist (Doron Solomons) was accused of plagiarizing a work from his student (Tal Folkman). Both works also explore the ‘no news’ theme through edited silences.
The student’s work (dating back from 2003): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzK-Yx9AZzU