Alva Gosson
Had a think yesterday while shopping... watching "old" TV is daunting cos we feel it's in the past and irrelevant ... but watch it and u get sucked in; it's not old any more! Immanently there is no clue to "age". Most of the fledged birds are now dead (2009) but within the program where they are fledging (2006) that is irrelevant. When we think it's "live" it's also irrelevant for the same reason - media creates its own time (celluloid heroes actually die again and again). 4 me its the same nausea as going to an art gallery and finding a note next to the painting telling u what it is ... why paint if you need words to do your art?! We need to be told its "live" cos media creates its own time.
December 6 at 10:38am · Delete
Alva Gosson
I notice also that a lot of the animal watchers get a kick from photography - necessary since its a TV program but also because taking a picture is like a second permanent sight. Comparing the "image" to the "real" thing enhances the reality - makes nature more beautiful. Indeed its because of "media" that we have a notion of reality! Likewise it's because of media (like memory etc) that we have a notion of "time". Its worth knowing the '69 coverage of the Moon landings was "live" because it was an event in that huge media called "history". The temporality (sense of time) of the grainy images was less than impressive, but the temporality of that moment in history was impressive. "Time" must have been vivid on that day. In SpringWatch birds fledging is not history it has its own time so "live" means nothing in fact its irritating. So I guess I don't believe in Einstein's Spacetime - its just another narrative which creates its own time!
December 6 at 10:51am · Delete
Alva Gosson
Editing is the means of getting any "object". The sculptor throws away all that rock so that we have a shape but so 2 does any story maker :-) too much exposure to nature and the non-expert would be lost in detail and rock splinters and so unable to get a story out... so the experts create the stories on Springwatch for us. Its art&craft like any other... btw forgot to post this next bit which was sitting offline...
December 6 at 7:24pm · Delete
Alva Gosson
thinking again... "live" is especially irksome because it misses what "live" means. Media is recordable so it is not itself live. Live is unrecordable by definition cos if you recorded it, its not live any more. If you record a 24hour TV channel while u go out, you won't have time to keep up with the TV n watch the recording - u need a parallel universe; isn't that where physics goes wrong - trying to record everything? This is why I'm watching Springwatch 2006 in 2009 anyway. So that's the Zen point that only Live "exists" but u can't record it in words, thoughts, pictures, sounds etc. You have to be a- Live anyway to watch things so that's the clue to whether its Live or not ;-) ... just some thoughts on the unthinkable while shopping ...
December 6 at 7:24pm · Delete
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