I wonder if copyright messages are themselves copyrighted? Let’s conduct an experiment.
Here’s a video consisting entirely of legal warnings from the likes of VVL and the VHS Video Collection. Who will be the first, if any, to get the video removed? Find out right here, soon. Or not, depending on how many people actually care enough to watch the thing.
Might be interesting, could be boring. Let’s see how things transpire.
Not that I have anything against VHS as a medium, in fact regular readers of Harry Yack will recall he has something of soft spot for it, or at least he prefers it to DVD. But it’s always fun to watch stuff being destroyed, and anyone who denies this fact is a big fat liar.
In actuality, this video’s supposed to be a semi-serious test of how durable the humble cassette tape is. More of the same is on the way, with a bit of luck. As to what form these future experiments will take, I’m not quite sure at this point. Perhaps a ‘ten reasons why VHS is better than DVD’? Suppose it depends on how much time am able to devote to it over the coming weeks.
This is a curious snippet I encountered when trawling through a bunch of VHS tapes I recently purchased from a car boot sale. I’m going to label it as part of The VHS Project, though I don’t currently have plans to expand on that notion. Maybe some time in the future.
Some woman claims she’s been to the moon with aliens. How much monetary compensation she received for these revelations is yet to be disclosed, though I’d guess it’s quite a lot.
Oh yeah, and apologies for the poor quality, but then you generally get that with verrry old VHS tapes.
I had almost completely forgotten about those poor quality videos I uploaded to YouTube for no other reason than embed them on my project blogs. Until this morning, when I was mucking about with the ‘Insight’ feature and discovered a large increase in views for a particular date: 20th April 2010.
Turns out Biased BBC used it to make a small satirical point about some politician or other at the beginning of last week. I shouldn’t really comment, as the closest I ever got to this genre was taking the mickey out of local MP Ian McCartney, and even that was tepid and rather childish.
Still, it reminded me about those pointless ‘Day in Your Life’ uploads I made. Incidentally, many have now been deleted because the fools over at YouTube cannot quite grasp the concept of a project video. Never mind.
The titular video heading the Analogue Propaganda project, which explores non-analogue glitching and questions whether digital television really does provide a better viewing experience. The speech was grabbed from this vid on YouTube.
Visuals captured on a glitched up Freeview box. Sound is a mix of various glitch noises.
