So we have a little challenge for you...
Great!
I want you to explain what a TV is without saying the words
screen, box, remote, antenna.
Screen, box, remote or antenna.
What the hell?!
A TV?
A television
is uhm...
A square of pleasure.
That’s also my Tinder bio.
A television is a square of pleasure.
A luminous square of pleasure.
That's all you need.
Because it's like-- Yeah, that's literally perfect.
It lights up.
You look at it and you get pleasure.
But then also you might cry if you watch TV.
So maybe it's a luminous square of pleasure and pain.
And that just sounds like a line from 50 Shades of Grey now, doesn't it?
I've ruined it.
I have ruined it.
Within a frame,
like a sort of moving
painting made of light and colour.
You watch stories play out
that may or may not be true.
And sometimes you watch it for a little bit,
and sometimes you accidentally watch it for a long time.
And what is its function?
It can be a means by which
to reflect on the real world
and or your own life in a
cathartic or humorous way.
What is this that I'm talking about?
That's what a TV is, I guess.
So, a TV is a square-shaped,
it could be metal, plastic,
screen. [wrong answer buzzer]
Did I say screen? Oh, my gosh.
Okay, I'll say it again.
A TV is a square-shaped
box. [wrong answer buzzer]
It's hard, isn't it?
So, a TV is a square-shaped
object
that's plastic,
or it could be metal, and it has lights coming through it.
And you normally sit on the sofa
and with your eyes you look through it
and it comes up with things
that helps you imagine and see things.
That's a TV.
This object
is a portal into another dimension where all your dreams come true,
all the horrors of the world are available,
all of the most tedious things...
It's all there through a thin sheet of glass,
or it might be Perspex, now.
I don't know what it is. It’s some sort of clear...
That's a hard question!
I hope I've been as poetic about it as you hoped.
TV is...
a form of entertainment
where images are captured
on digital camera.
usually and
played to the masses
in the comfort of their sitting rooms via a big rectangle
box. [wrong answer buzzer]
Via a big rectangle
screen? [wrong answer buzzer]
Via...
Ha ha ha!
Via uhm...
I don't know.
A rectangle!
Via a giant rectangle on a wall.
Black glass
that communicates to you
on a beautiful,
gorgeous level of joy and drama.
Love that. Very poetic!
Uhm.. Thank you very much.