Un-TV

The Un-TV assignment was very interesting on how it played out. When we were first assigned to it, I thought it would be a waste of time. I thought that I already knew the message Sal was trying to send us, and that watching the black tv screen for thirty minutes wouldn't change it. Although, when I did the assignment, I realized how wrong I was. The TV is really just a box, and the fact that we show emotion toward it seems so strange. We are reacting to moving images that arn't realistic at all b/c of editing, the story line. When we are watching TV, we are escaping reality by watching a fake story on a box. That is basically what we waste are time with. I'm not saying TV is bad, b/c sometimes I think something is worth watching. But I do belive that we (or at least I) should limit the amount of television I watch. To be entertained by pictures, and a story isn't the way I intended. I hope to stay more active in my actual hobbies.