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Tag Archives: VHS
Support the Remixer and the Arts
It’s no exaggeration to say that @BryanMMathers changed my aesthetic life indelibly when he began visually animating @reclaimhosting’s soul. We love this guy! And he is an amazingly generous collaborator. https://t.co/eo14nVNNiN — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) May 24, 2019 It’s been … Continue reading
Reclaim Video, or #ds106flix
I am just coming off a quick, fun trip back to Virginia. I was invited to talk at Old Dominion University (I’ll say more about that in my next post) which meant I was able to sneak in some time … Continue reading
Reclaim Video’s The Weekly Watch 002
Getting back into that bava blog groove, and oh it feels so good! I blogged my weekly watch at Reclaim Video a few weeks ago, so this is more catch-up. Once I get settled a bit I’ll pick this up … Continue reading
Reclaim Video’s The Weekly Watch 001
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6k49mF6CY/ I got bak into town late Thursday, and rolled into Reclaim Video after a morning of meetings to find the great Xander watching Alice in Wonderland on laserdisc. I appreciate how seriously he takes his job, and he only … Continue reading
Old Gold VHS Mold: the Fungus Amungus
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmxFsyAHBn4/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet Looks like we have fungus growing on a couple of our Betamax tapes. You can see it above on the Goldfinger tape. Kinda eats into the tape like the opening title sequence of John Carpenter’s The Thing. We are … Continue reading
Reclaim Video Laserdisc and VHS Haul
I have been quiet on the Reclaim Video front with everything going on with the Fall semester start-up, so before they become a distant memory I wanted to mention a couple of nice hauls of Laserdiscs and VHS tapes we … Continue reading
Reclaim Video GIFs
I put together a series of GIFs for a slideshow that was going to play in the background, between sessions, etc. at OER18. I don’t think that ever came to fruition—or at least I didn’t see it—but I kinda like it, … Continue reading
Reclaim Video: The Website
One of the elements of Reclaim Video that I am most excited about is exploring what is possible through the website. We launched the website as part of the world premier at OER18, and it’s pretty awesome. We had a … Continue reading
Readful Things at Reclaim Video
Some incredible artwork that we couldn’t resist for the new space. News on our opening coming very soon! A post shared by Reclaim Video ? (@reclaimvideo) on Apr 24, 2018 at 12:29pm PDT The entire Reclaim team has been … Continue reading
Losin’ It, Dead Zone, Videodrome, The Day After and more
The Reclaim Video storefront continues to flower as we bring in more titles.Over the last two weeks we added a bunch of titles such as Losin’ It and Dead Zone to knock a couple of titles off the 1983 wish … Continue reading