Pester fest5/4/2023 So, it isn’t Rupert Murdoch you should worry about, it’s the sticky-fingered child standing on the sofa next to you. It is our kids who enjoy the role of gate-keeper as they have control over the little black box. With the timeless appeal of the animation classics which poured out from Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros and MGM it is no wonder that in satellite/cable homes nearly half of all young children’s viewing is of satellite channels, and 15 per cent is to the Cartoon Network alone. Who in their right mind would come in from work to find their kids watching Tom and Jerry in the lounge and demand to see Newsroom South-East rather than squeeze up to watch Tom suffering another fairly major dental trauma? It’s not the kids we’re indulging – it’s us. With Nick Sommer, Mathew Dunlop, Thaine H. With all the extra programming hours to fill that cable and satellite allow, broadcasters are transmitting everything that was dear to our hearts when we were kids (test transmissions aside) such as Tom and Jerry, Banana Splits, Scooby Doo, Top Cat and the Flintstones. Secondly, it is becoming increasingly difficult to object to watching what the kids are watching anyway. However, viewing evidence would suggest the contrary.įirst of all, to combat a popular myth, young children watch far less TV on average than adults – approximately 17 hours a week, compared with 25 hours. After all, once they’re in the driving seat, so to speak, only a veritable churl of a parent would banish them to the portable in the bedroom.Īdults without kids may well be critical, and claim that parents these days are too indulgent towards their TV-viewing offspring. Their willingness to watch television at times of maximum parental apathy, such as very early in the mornings or after school, is the viewing equivalent of Germans putting towels on sunloungers. The ace card up kids’ sleeves is availability to view. Not that this seems to happen very often. Husbands can slump in front of the screen to enjoy a constant visual diet of football on Sky, while wives can savour their favourite soaps in another room.Ī majority of children now have TV sets in their bedrooms, to which they can retire if their viewing choices are overruled. Individuals can migrate to their own space to view their personal selection of programmes. Thirty-eight per cent of all UK homes have two sets, and 19 per cent own three or more. The set is no longer limited in number or location. Today, in my household, the TV is no less important, but each family member has different expectations of it and is more empowered to reject something in favour of an alternative. Patrick Pester is a freelance writer and previously a staff writer at Live Science. I sat through endless soaps, plays, news or family variety spectaculars because it was preferable to reading a book. I can even vividly recall the various random trade test transmissions on the the experimental BBC2 – the Monte Carlo rally and the Zambesi dam are etched in my mind, albeit in grainy black and white.Īt home, my influence over the buttons on my parents’ teak box was limited to Top of the Pops, the Avengers or Thunderbirds. As a child I remember it as a precious daily treat. Young people are invited to join her in the 1st weekend of Open Studios for free drop in workshops.The television has always been important to me. Greer will be inviting participants to join her in making their own tissue paper window kites - to connect their outsides to their insides with special symbols and forms. Pester & Soso may be a couple of idiots but dont worry they have some help With their Circus for Idiots instruction manual, they are sure to put on the. Her colourful palette embodies the exotic, taking enrichment from many years living and working in Mexico and through cultural exchanges in Europe, Africa and the US.įor this residency Greer will be focusing on developing some large tissue paper and gel cutouts - building window based surprises and layers in an interaction between inside and outside spaces, playing with the effects of light, glass and colour. Her work is material led and ranges from detailed linear graphic work to bold bright expansive cut out forms. PBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Comic Timing, Holly Pesters extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical. She works with collage, painting, tactile sculpture and text. She is curious about creative play, life and death cycles, rituals, food and ecstatic experience, bordered by colours and shapes that can often refer us to the infantile and feminine. A graduate from Edinburgh College Of Art, her practice explores human intimacy and states of connection with nature. Greer is a Scottish visual and social artist. Open Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th 11am-6pm
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