Thursday, August 2, 2007
Becoming a TV Expert
Two shows that I never thought I would watch, let alone appreciate: Style by Jury and Colour Confidential. Both shows talk about how to apply creativity and style to recreate and rejuvenate. In the former case, the subject is a person, in the latter, the subject is a living space. We are obsessed with experts these days, and they all are smorgasborded for us on the TV networks. When we watch TV we are standing at the top of Maslow's triangle of human needs looking out over all of humanity's possibilities. We can learn all of history, we can learn all about life, we can feel the agony of the present world strife, we can enjoy the greatest artistic performances, movies, we can siphon off the bottom feeding media and entertainment news programs, we can shop til we drop or we can just chuckle our way through endless cartoons. So much TV, so little time.