The Long Now Foundation sponsored showings of Brian Eno’s “77 Million Paintings” this weekend in San Francisco. I asked my friend Leslie Wolf to check it out. Here’s what she said…
Hi, Frank:
I went to the 77 Million Paintings last night.
We walked into a large darkened room with a few chairs around the wall and a few sort of bean-bag couches, so most people just sat on the floor. The screen was split into three, with the same picture left and right, and a different one in the middle. They weren’t as much images as set of changing squiggles and colors. The music was that eerie, disembodied Brian Eno music that was probably machine-generated as well.
The people who were there were probably from 30’s to 60’s. They seemed rapt, lying on the floor just watching. It was sort of a meditative exercise, because there didn’t seem to be any movement towards an idea or resolution. I guess you either “got” it or you didn’t. Or perhaps it was a way of making time stretch so it seemed longer! I lasted about 40 minutes……….
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Jmo 07.02.07 at 6:05
I can stare at my iTunes random image visualiser for 40 minutes while sitting on the floor of a darkened room — and the best part is, I don’t have to listen to Brian Fucking Eno.
I get it; I just don’t want it; because I already got it in ‘99 with WMP. Hur!