not every breakfast needs to be something worthy of posting to a food blog. Sometimes food is simply fuel, something we eat to live. But with TV ads and billboards and in-store displays saying otherwise—in colorful and provocative ways—that can b...
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a ...
Many of the people who consented to talk about their private lives in front of millions of television viewers would say that they were sharing their stories as a way to give comfort [to] fellow sufferers, to raise public awareness, to give a voice to...
... all sorts of wonderful things got washed up on the beach – crates of clothes and cutlery and children’s toys, boxes of engine parts and television screens and electrical wires like tangled snakes in the water. I found them fascinating, like r...
There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have turned. The rich take ...
Live in a place where people are revered for being clever, funny, and creative, instead of rich annoying, and on television. Where they inspire. Where they aspire. Where they dream of the perfect sentence, or the perfect drawing, or the perfect chord...
You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficu...
I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob tube. I'm the little shrine the family gathers to adore.' 'You're the television? Or someone in the television?' 'The TV's the altar. I'm what people...
Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.
Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.
You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley.
I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.
I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'
Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.
It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.
