ranging from sight gag, to the fantastic, to R&D’s objective correlative. feel free to add more…
from Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902, dir. Edwin S. Porter, Edison Studios):
from Videodrome (1983, dir. David Cronenberg)
from Sony, flexible OLED:
2 interesting things about the JUMBOTRON after seeing the Boss in concert last night.
It looked like they delay the image feed so that it perfectly matches the time the sound takes to echo throughout the stadium. Little Max Weinberg from a few thousand feet off consistently looked a half-beat off from the sound and his image up on the huge screen.
People behave completely differently when they know they’re on the jumbotron at arena shows than people at sporting events. At sporting events recognize themselves on the screen, scan the stadium for the camera, go nuts, wave signs. Last night at Bruce, people who happened to see themselves on screen (you could tell from the slight glance) would quickly snap their attention back on stage and act as if they didn’t know they were on camera, act as if they were in a famous live recording. Maybe this was something unique to this concert, or maybe the specific postures people take toward the insertion of a single video feed within a massive crowd says something about the different aesthetics of these events.
I’m sort of glad I was sitting in the back, because it seemed like I was the only one who didn’t know all the words to every single song.
