Category Archives: ReclaimVideo

Slashback Video

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Reverend

I’m not sure exactly what to say about this one, it was a bit like that Spider-man meme when I was like wait, that’s me? I walked into my own dream. When I first went into Slasher World it was … Continue reading →

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Still Unwinding

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Reverend

It’s just over a month since re-living the glory days of 1994 at Portland’s Revolution Hall. The show was billed as Unwound playing their 1994 album New Plastic Ideas. That was reason enough to go to the show, and I … Continue reading →

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Return to Reclaim Arcade

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Reverend

“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.” — Walter Benjamin In mid-May I took a trip back to Fredericksburg, which included a quick jaunt to Long Island to see family and … Continue reading →

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Reclaim Fotomat

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Reverend

Now that Reclaim Arcade is up and running I find myself looking for other things to dream about. My life has come to a beautiful moment wherein the things I imagine can actually come true, not sure how I got … Continue reading →

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Reclaim Video Reclaimed

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Reverend

I’m gonna try and break my posts about the grand opening of Reclaim Arcade up a bit given there’s so much to say one post would just be too imposing and never get written.  Views of ?@reclaimvideo?, the gateway drug … Continue reading →

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Reclaim Arcade: It’s Alive!

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Reverend

Tim and I are thrilled to ring in 2021 with some good news on the Reclaim Arcade front, namely that IT’S ALIVE! We’re currently taking advanced bookings on our website for 2-hour blocks of time starting Friday, January 29th. This … Continue reading →

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DVD: It’s a movie on a disc the size of a CD

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Reverend

At last year’s OER19 conference the great Laura Ritchie brought me a suitcase full of VHS tapes. Within this there were the first five episodes of The Sopranos on tape that when lockdown started a couple of weeks ago I … Continue reading →

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Reclaim Video and VHStival: a Match Made in 80s Heaven

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Reverend

At the end of August Miles, Tim, and I went down to the Video Vortex in Raleigh, North Carolina for a 3-day event VHStival, focused on all things VHS put on by Alamo Drafthouse and organized by Josh Schafer (Lunchmeat … Continue reading →

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VHStival at Video Vortex: It’s Happening!

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Reverend

Yesterday I locked into for a trip back to beautiful to Raleigh, North Carolina to attend the 3-day film festival at their local Alamo Drafthouse’s VHStival. I was trying to slow down the travel, but when I saw the insane … Continue reading →

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Video Vortex

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Reverend

One of the most serendipitous occurrences of Domains19 was running into Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks fame who is a media archivist with a stunning collection of 24,000 16mm films. Skid joined a friend of his from college to the … Continue reading →

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