Don't mince words, Meredith, tell us what you really think!

[maradydd]

Ok, so apparently the latest episode of BoingBoing TV is by the guys at monochrom, who are a bunch of Austrians, and it's described as "Web 2.0 meets Marxist economic theory".

I have not actually watched this yet, because the last monochrom puppet show I saw, at last year's CCC, was so pointless and badly executed that enochsmiles and I walked out less than halfway through. (Don't get me wrong, the art was good. But the story made not a lick of sense, the puppeteers had no technical skill -- most of the action involved stick-puppets bouncing up and down randomly -- and it was pretty obvious that they hadn't rehearsed beforehand, given all the missed cues.)

Maybe I'll watch it. Maybe I won't. But the juxtaposition of Austrians doing a puppet show on Marxist economic theory makes me want to put together a puppet show on Austrian School economic theory. Who wants to help? I'm thinking the world needs Lolcat Von Mises.

(digitalusrex, cassandrasimplx, damn do I ever wish I were in Houston right now. And I bet john_j_enright and I could bang together a fun script in Shakespearean blank verse...)

Comments

[hober.livejournal.com]

I love the title of this blog post.


MAAAAAAAARRX!

[cassandrasimplx.livejournal.com]

I can has cheezburgrs according to mine needs?

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

In.

[enochsmiles.livejournal.com]

I don't know how they missed the cues -- there was a woman standing on stage whose job it was, apparently, to yell out the cues loudly enough that we in the 10th row could hear them.

But, yeah. It was atrocious, starting with the script, going on through the utter incoherence of the whole thing and the nervous laughter of the audience who was too polite to leave, and topped by the fact that half the puppets weren't even showing up on the screen because the people holding them didn't know how to line them up properly. The 10th grade drama geek in me was screaming inwardly.

I had thought Monochrom was supposed to be, err, good?

The film is not about Marx

[(Anonymous)]

It is about Foucault, and his reading of Marxist theory, and Gilles Deleuze term of "Society of Control" (referring to Foucault).

I watched monochrom's CCC puppet show on video, I liked it.