Wow, these bring back so many memories. I grew up with these in my household. Each one held a bootlegged movie recorded from TV, or a copied version of a Blockbuster VHS movie, or some home videos. I never really thought of them as designed objects, but one look at them as a whole definitely [...]
Memorex from Smash TV on Vimeo. You know where this video would play forever on loop? American Apparel. [via] Memorex is a 50 minute VJ odyssey, a tribute to an entire generation who grew up with only a TV and a VCR for a babysitter. Sourced from over forty hours of 80s commercials pulled from [...]
OMG OMG OMG!!! When I was younger, my family had this other version of Aladdin on VHS that I would watch a lot. It wasn’t the Disney version most people know. This one was more anime-like and for the longest time I’ve been trying to figure out what it was really called. Tonight, I found [...]
PBS Offbook looks at why we love analog mediums more than digital ones sometimes.
A black skull made with old VHS tapes.
Max Capacity: Net Necromancer from Tumblr on Vimeo. This monotone-talking artist named Max Capacity brings new life to old media by rehashing VHS tapes into animated GIFs and stills and by turning video game glitches into art. His work is deeply rooted in nostalgia and while it’s a bit weird at times, anybody who ever [...]
