Comments on: The Day There Was No News

By: dormin

dormin — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:48:07 +0000

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

By: D.S. Black

D.S. Black — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:57:33 +0000

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!

By: qDot

qDot — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:51:15 +0000

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.

By: Josh Lowensohn

Josh Lowensohn — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:08:04 +0000

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

By: Stephen Lynch

Stephen Lynch — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:08:04 +0000

I loved Bloom County. Why are all the women in this video blonde?

By: John Moltz

John Moltz — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:40:20 +0000

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.)