Television

Fac 1, Factory Communications 1979-1992

Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label founded in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus.

The label featured several important acts on its roster, including Joy DivisionNew OrderA Certain Ratiothe Durutti ColumnHappy MondaysNorthside, and (briefly) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and James. Factory also ran The Haçienda nightclub, in partnership with New Order.

Factory Records used a creative team (most notably record producer Martin Hannett and graphic designer Peter Saville) which gave the label and the artists recording for it a particular sound and image. The label employed a unique cataloguing system that gave a number not just to its musical releases, but also to various other related miscellany, including artwork, films, living beings, and even Wilson’s own casket and tombstone.

Two short clips about Factory artefacts

“I am not a piece of hash. I’m in charge of Factory Records. I think.”

Tony Wilson


AI documentaries

Interesting documentaries about Artificial Intelligence by german production house Deutsche Welle in English and Frontline from the USA. However, can somebody please write an AI plugin to remove all 'there is something sinister going on here' music from all AI documentaries.

Artificial Intelligence Documentaries by Deutsche Welle and Frontline




Disclaimer: The documentaries are from 2019 and 2020, so already considered 'ancient' in the AI developer world.

Francis and the Lights - Friends ft. Bon Iver and Kanye West

Great idea, low budget, maximum impact.

Francis and the Lights - Friends ft. Bon Iver and Kanye West



Directed by Jake Schreier from the album FAREWELL, STARLITE!

all enquires: seb@sebchew.com

written by Lammer, Starlite, Vernon.

Produced by BJ Burton, Francis, Kanye West and Justin Vernon.

Director of Photography: Adam Newport-Berra Executive Producer – Alex Fisch

Choreographed by Francis Starlite, Jake Schreier, Jake Lodwick, and Russell Wright.

post by Francis and ARTJAIL thank you Danielle Strle thank you Justin Ouellette, and the sOcial eXperiment

 


Alessandro Baricco - The Game

Alessandro Baricco presents a theory to the world why we live in the world we live in today.

He calls it The Game

Fascinating on many different levels.

Buy The Game(Italian)


Alessandro Baricco born January 25, 1958 is an Italian writer, director and performer.

His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages. He currently lives in Rome.


Johnny Marr - Guitar Genius

Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher; 31 October 1963) is an English musician, songwriter and singer, best known as the guitarist and – with Morrissey – co-songwriter of the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987.

All on Wikipedia

Some appetizers on this page, but you should read the biography to hear it all
from the man himself, no ghostwriters involved.
Johnny Marr: Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography

Buy biography: 

'Try to be the master of your craft'

Johnny Marr

See him talk about it…and many other subjects

On writing his biography:

“I didn’t want to use a ghostwriter, I was there, I had to write it, so I learned how to write and be good at it.”


Jan Böhmermann 'recipe' for a corporate pop hit

Jan Böhmermann shows us how it’s done in Germany. A hit written in 30 minutes and a clip using some original footage of Jim Pandzko (an alter ego of Jan Böhmermann) and a lot of stock images and video. The lyrics have been selected by chimps and are derived from calendars, tweets and other ‘found footage”. It also contains (fake) product placements. The hit is called Menschen, Leben, Tanzen, Welt. (People, Life, Dancing, World)

Why Jan did it is here (German only)


Posh pawn - Great TV - Great business model

https://www.prestigepawnbrokers.co.uk/posh-pawn-tv-show-channel-4/


Nathan Barley - In 2005 light years ahead

Nathan Barley is a British Channel 4 television sitcom written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, starring Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt, Claire Keelan, Richard Ayoade, Ben Whishaw, Rhys Thomas and Charlie Condou. The series of six weekly episodes began broadcasting on 11 February 2005 on Channel 4.

 

"I'm a self-facilitating media node"

Nathan Barley

According to Digital Spy, Nathan Barley was “a flop when it originally aired, but a cult hit on DVD”. It pulled in 700,000 viewers and a 3% share.[4]

The series features a (nowadays) famous cast such as:

Nathan Barley, played by Nicholas Burns, is a webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a “self-facilitating media node”. Whilst desperate to convince himself and others that he is the epitome of urban cool, Nathan is secretly terrified he might not be, which is why he reads Sugar Ape magazine, his bible of cool. 

The website (trashbat.co.ck) consists of stupid pranks caught on camera, photos of him with attractive women and famous figures (some of them digitally edited to insert himself), and photos of him standing on street corners in major cities around the world.

The humour derives from the rapid rise of both the Internet and digital media, and the assumption by publishers and broadcasters that almost any such work is worthy of attention. Barley and his peers are often hired ahead of actual journalists and talented writers trying to make intelligent points, such as the earnest documentary film maker Claire Ashcroft, and her brother Dan Ashcroft, a jaded, opinionated and apathetic hack who, having written an article for Sugar Ape entitled “The Rise of the Idiots”, is appalled to find that “the idiots” in question – Nathan and his contemporaries – have adopted him as their spiritual leader, failing to see that they are the very people he was criticising.


Fur TV - Very rude adult puppets meet DJ YoYo

FUR TV ‘ENTER THE DJ’

Fur TV is a comedy puppet show produced by MTV Networks Europe and airs on MTV channels throughout Europe. The show uses Muppets style puppetry, but in a more adult setting. The characters are shown to undertake human activities such as drinking and having sex.

All at Wikipedia

‘Wow, all the music from your set…?’

– Lapeño Enriquez –

‘No, all the music in the world.’

-DJ YoYo-

Watch this clip from Vimeo

‘This contains all the music in the world’


Happyish - Starring Steve Coogan

About Happyish (from IMDB)

It is “different” and does not belong to mainstream and regular type of shows that one may watch. It is not a kind of show that is talked about around water coolers and it is not to everybody’s taste. It is not a kind of show that one watches for sheer purpose of entertainment. Not a kind of show that soothes you, either. It is more like a mirror that reflects how we could get lost in banality of life. It is thought provoking, witty, and intelligent. It is truthful, wry, honest, and cerebral. One of the best shows (sadly underrated and overlooked) in the so called “golden age of television”, that tries to touch the vexed question of “happiness” in modern world and address the “tragic sense of life” in a roundabout way and blended with humor.

Best quote:

‘It’s only tragedy when you don’t see the comedy.’

Hear writer Shalom Auslander talk about an episode in this clip.