Let's Paint!!

I posted this on my facebook the other day, but i thought it was just too good not to post a second time here.

The television show is called "Let's Paint.tv". The host is John Kilduff, he's an artist, as crazy as this seems, he is has a masters in Fine Art from UCLA and from skimming through his web site it seems he does mostly oil on canvas. Anyway, this show has been on since 2002 and although it started in L.A. its been picked up in New York and London.
Let's just hope that the motivation and enthusiasm that John exhibits for art gets passed on.


oh yeah, the title of the episode is "Let's paint, and exercise and blend drinks".

Enjoy!!

Water Walk, 1960

Live television in b & w
In 1960, John Cage appeared on the game show "I've Got a Secret", where contestants force a panel to guess their secret to win, i don't know, in the 60's maybe some free cigarettes and dish soap.
Anyway, when Cage was on they decided to forgo the secret guessing crap and let him do perform an entire piece. Other than the radio's not getting plugged in due to some union bullshit it went off rather well, i think.
Hard to believe that in 1960, television would air this, let alone trick an entire studio audience into sitting through it.