Video Sundays: Slow TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VYVjR_nwE In the 1990s I had a job at a tiny low-power TV station operated by the University of California, San Diego. To fill the hours between our sparse programming, a fellow employee named Steve would play one of two things: a recording of bird sounds or, if the space shuttle was up, NASA’s feed. The funny thing about the NASA feed was that it was mostly a static shot of a bunch of engineers at Houston Missio...

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Video Sundays: Design Line Phones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyVe3dD-1mE Am I the only person who has a problem with post WWII consumer objects? When it comes to phones I think they should be black, all the same and weigh 10 pounds. I think the cringe-worthy phones in this film from the fascinating AT&T history channel, prove my point. Some background: For much of the company’s history, AT&T rented phones to users. But in the 1970s, the company tried a novelty line of phones...

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