November 22nd, 2007
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You wouldn’t get away with it these days I can tell you. But in my youth I must have spent hours on end watching this whilst my television screamed at me.
They said it was a home computer, I think it was some form of psychological conditioning brought about by the cold war.
Sean on 
Maddie on
I have seen one of these, but with a pic of the terminator (1) in it, was done in 8bit colour.
I love watching static, like watching clouds, cept faster.
I can just imagine you sat there in front of a TV Poltergeist-style.
…’they’re here’…
Me, no, never.
Not me.
Actually, my favourite all time pointless TV display was the weather channel on SBS, it just had a crappy satellite(sic) image and basic colours, a scroll feed of info and some random music playing, plus info on that music artist.
That show went for hours and hours and hours.
That show was also hypnotic, I swear I drooled when I watched it.
I don’t have flash, so I can’t view YouTube.
Almost all of those fluffin’ blinking and moving
ads use flash animations, which make me feel
like I’m having an epileptic seizure. I’m not
kidding. Now they are starting to pull that bs
at the bottom of the television screen. They
won’t stop until people start having seizures.
Seriously, the time is coming, sooner or later.
Wow, you can actually use the internet without flash? The last I looked virtually the whole thing ran off it.
There was the *incident* in Japan a few years back where they broadcast an episode of Pokemon that caused a large bout of seizures (I think there’s a Simpsons episode that mocks it), but the problem occured again when news shows also used the footage to illustrate the story…
http://animefan25.tripod.com/seizures.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19056376/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19056376/
Holy f**k, that thing cost $796 000. I should start animating and releasing seizure inducing cartoons.
I call it the MTV syndrome, this holding an image only long enough for the eye to recognise it before going to the next. People confuse it for action, as if lingering for a few moments is somehow boring and uninteresting. It’s an affect seen in movies and advertising and everywhere now. The problem is, it makes me sick. I have to close my eyes. I had to leave the theater during the latest Bourne Identity movie because the movement made me dizzy. I got a refund. I don’t think I am alone in this. I’m just more vocal. Movement, strobe lights, flickering, flashing… it’s like sticking a stick in my brain. It’s not healthy for anyone, this constant state of sensory over-arousal.
Ah, those were the days.
I wish that thing’d had sound. It’s missing something without the sound.
I’m not certain what it was, but as a teen, my family’s TV used to get up to channel 250+, which without a cable/sati box was an oddity in itself. I found that on channel 262 or somewhere near that, we go what seemed like seismological readings. Just an animated three dimensional graph in black and white, with scrolling letters and numbers at the side and bottom. I still haven’t a clue what it was, or why it was hidden away in the distant upper channels. (one should note that I found it due to sheer boredom, as channels 70 through to it were just static.) But I still remember the way my dad was so creeped out by how fascinated by it I was.
Wow, that’s rather creepy… I must admit to not knowing anything about this… I’ve just had a quick search online and again turned up a blank. Any ideas anyone?