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"Like watching paint dry" is an English-language idiom describing an activity as being particularly boring or tedious. [1] It is believed to have originated in the United States. [ 2 ] A similar phrase is "watching the grass grow".
A non-narrative film, Paint Drying consists of 607 minutes (10 hours and 7 minutes) of a static view of white paint drying on a brick wall. The entire film is a single continuous shot, and there is no audio. [3] [4] It receives its title from the expression "like watching paint dry", [5] which refers to something very tedious or boring. [6]
In their review they admitted that while this was labelled a documentary, Côté was able to unsurprisingly captivate his audience by scraping a crafted tumultuous script and focus on the mundanity of their lives. A focus that they regarded as successful due to Côté's uncanny ability to make watching paint dry exciting. [7]
The last time the Federal Reserve laid the groundwork for shrinking its balance sheet, in 2017, then-Chair Janet Yellen said she expected the process would be "like watching paint dry." The ...
New York Daily News Archive / Contributor/Getty Images. But then, 25 years later, a curious thing happened. I had children. And they wanted to read Harry Potter.In fact, they wanted me to read it ...
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Charlie Shackleton (formerly Charlie Lyne; born 15 August 1991) is a British filmmaker, multimedia artist, and film critic.He has made several films, including Beyond Clueless, Fear Itself and the 2023 protest film Paint Drying as well as the multimedia performance piece As Mine Exactly.
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