You know what I could watch for MONTHS on end?

[xyzzysqrl]

There's a TV show, the Discovery Channel is running it. "How It's Made". It shows... well. How stuff is made.

If you took all the little segments of that show, stripped the voice-overs, and chained them together on a randomizer? I would starve in front of the TV, staring wide-eyed as candy gets stretched on a hook, followed by a man spinning a flute on a lathe, followed by endless pressure-stamped jar lids cascading down a belt, followed by concrete being extruded through a tube, etc.

Seriously. It'd be hypnotically fascinating. I wish I could get this as a screensaver somehow.

Comments

[cryptodragon.livejournal.com]

My roommate is exactly the same way.

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

Whatever you do, never watch Koyaanisqatsi...

[xyzzysqrl]

Been meaning to for months.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

It's considerably more chatty (and that's a lot of its charm)but have you ever seen "The Secret Life of Machines?" I recommend it extremely highly, it's a classic of British TV.

[xyzzysqrl]

Hrm... I've heard of that, actually, and... gasp, a torrent has fallen onto my hard drive somehow!

Six episodes per season, three seasons?

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

Wow. I've never actually found "How It's Made" terribly compelling, but this could actually make it interesting. O.O

[mulethunder.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the one with the rope braider?

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I really want to like How It's Made, but yes, it'd be much better without the narrator. He always makes me feel like he's bored with the made-ings going on, so it ends up being what I'll watch because I'm bored with Impractical Secret Weapons Of World War II over on the History Channel. It might be better silent.