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Video Heat [volume #1]

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Throughout my daily grind, I do a fair amount of art research, which means I spend hours upon hours listlessly trolling through the pages of print and web media for visual content that stimulates and inspires. A few weeks back I stumbled upon a massive cache of virtual VHS tapes – thousands, possibly millions, of digital cassettes caked with the dust of time and long forgotten by those who had once consumed them with cinephilic zeal.

Rather than let these chunks of contextual residue slip into the vacuum of the collective attention deficit – I’ve begun to slice out some of the choicer cuts, in hopes of curating a gallery of cinematic delicacies for all of the bored office workers and uninspired creatives of the world to feast upon. This is Video Heat: cinema burners and molten B-movie hotness for those with a taste for the high and the low.

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3 Comments

  1. Posted 14 Apr ’09 at 12:32 pm | Permalink

    Thrashin’ looks tyte, need to watch that

  2. Wizzawd
    Posted 14 Apr ’09 at 7:16 pm | Permalink

    I’m going to one day walk in every used video store in the city and buy all of these.

  3. admin
    Posted 15 Apr ’09 at 1:34 pm | Permalink

    That my friend, is an honourable quest. I recently copped a VHS player and I’m going to plumb the depths of failing video stores for titles that haven’t been transferred to DVD so that in the future I will have a collection of shitty low-budget movies that no one wants to see all to myself.

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