Media Burn by Ant Farm: Car Crash
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"Media Burn" by Ant Farm. Excerpt from Ant Farm's classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a "media circus" assembles at San Francisco's Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, dowsed with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, crashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets. You can watch the full version here:
http://mediaburn.org/Video-Preview.128.0.html?&uid=4574
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iiAmRePTiLLexHD 5 days ago
Don't see why they did so much prep work, or what was so special, rednecks do this all the time.
aperionx 2 months ago
LOL! So wish I had see this before I started (and left!) my TV Career!
Thank you!
WaveFengShui 1 year ago
I was a U of H architecture student in 68-72, took a "class" with Michels and Lord. Ant Farm were out of the box thinkers - this video is about the (then) US corporate giant stereotypes and the media's coverage - a cynical mockery of both. Early concept art.
What would they do today ?
throwbackAgain 1 year ago
We have to remember here that this is the 1970's and after the oil embargo of '73 1959 Cadillacs were regarded as excessive junk- like we look at cars from the 1980s today- piles of worthless out of date junk. They were trashed by the thousands! 10-15 yrs from now the Escalade and other big expensive cars will be looked at the same way. 1 less of the 1320 of the Eldorado Biarritz convertibles. Now there are less than 450 of these cars accounted for and well restored ones sell for $150k to $210k!
windwmx78 2 years ago
Did the flaming TV's die?
CRFbadass 2 years ago
Yeah. I think it's over their heads.
Roads0 2 years ago
I remember this used as the closing shots of WTTW's show Image Union.
WayOutWardell 2 years ago
it is so great this crew is alum from my college and believe it or not they have Architecture degrees.
ablaze13421 3 years ago
University of Houston rocks.
it far out what you can do with an Architecture degree.
love to see more post what ever wasn't burned.
ablaze13421 3 years ago