[hackerspaces] Fwd: Makers Wanted

[Mitch Altman]

I turn off TVs for a living, and yet I go on TV all the time.  Making TV content is fun.  Watching it is usually another story.  But if you have a message, and you present it well, then it is very possible to have this medium broadcast your message in a way you like. If I weren't so busy, I'd consider putting in a proposal for this show. Mitch. From: myrcurial at thinkhaus.org
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:11 -0500
To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Fwd: Makers Wanted



Well, Proper has a history of producing some fairly high quality stuff (Canada's Worst Driver, Canada's Worst Handyman) and yes, reality tv is contrived, but much like many of the other "issues" facing hacker/makerspaces (corporate involvement, DARPA, etc.) there are opinions as far ranging as one could imagine - and there is unlikely to be anything at all like consensus.
I vote that we paint the mailing list blue for the duration.
J



On 2012-02-14, at 4:34 PM, Charlie X Wallace wrote:



Wouldn’t that be basically a documentary, and not reality tv?
 
It is interesting, most of the people around hacker/makerspaces say they 
don’t have tv’s, don’t watch tv etc, but then complain when there is nothing on 
they want to watch. like dale being bumped off cnn by whitney.
 
we get a lot of people asking us to go on various shows, film/tv projects 
but we turn them all away, most of them will just be appealing to the LCD, 
you’ll never out-do them since they have full control of the edit/final cut and 
the people who make the final decisions on what direction the show will take 
couldn’t care less about how stupid it makes people look, that is what currently 
sells.
 
 


 

From: Jerry Isdale 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1:22 PM
To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org 

Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Fwd: Makers Wanted
 
"Proper 
Television is developing a new series about Makers"... 
 
Interesting. A couple of my local makers (Garrett Lisi and Reichart von 
Wolfsheild) recently had a show (Invention USA) on History Channel.
(http://www.history.com/shows/invention-usa)
It was a rather trying experience for them. The RealityTV people want 
controversy, angst, humor and action - real or contrived. And a lot of it was 
contrived by the script writers.
 
I hope Proper Television does a proper job of documenting and not trying to 
overly glamorize or create controversy and questionable humor.

 


Jerry 
Isdale
http://MauiMakers.com
http://www.mauimakers.com/blog/thursday-public-meeting/
 

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