I have to admit I’d never heard of the artist John Baldessari, but I found this video, “A Brief History of John Baldessary, Narrated by Tom Waits,” interesting both for content and as a way of presenting information.
Frankly, I mourn the passing of the idea that a “talking head”-- an interesting person talking to camera -- can be a suitable format if the person is saying interesting things. This little film is the opposite of that format, with frantic music in the background, fast editing, zooming, etc. but it embraces it so well that it works.
