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Nascent Analog Unleashing Entity VIOLENT VIDEO Delivers Some Limited Edition Fresh VHS with OFF THE BEATEN PATH and DEATH TO THE WORLD On Deck and Comically Confronts the Burning Question of “Is This Rare?”

If you’re tuned into this VHS-obsessed blog on the regular, you’re sure to know that the rewind re-animation and subsequent fresh VHS entities are in absolute full swing. Now, more than ever, there are Tapeheads taking the initiative to unleash their own brand of VHS beasts to share with their rewind-inclined brethren and beyond. The inspiration for Violent Video? Our own ever-expanding culture. The folks at Violent Video were influenced by their fellow Videovores from analog-inclined online communities to scratch that video vindicating itch and pump some radical slabs of magnetic magic into the continuous rewind resurgence. Violent Video has...

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Analog Era Cover Art Detail Uncovered: The Orion Home Video VHS Release of THEY CAME FROM WITHIN aka SHIVERS Compared with the June 1985 Cover of National Geographic!

While groovin’ around the radical VHS-obsessed Facebook forum VHS Misfits ~ Ironfist VHS Bliss this morning as a part of my daily dose of online analog insanity, I happened upon a most excellent post from fellow Tapehead Matthew Baxter (originally observed and mentioned by Al Magliochetti). His post compared the now iconic National Geographic cover featuring the portrait of an Afghan girl by photographer Steve McCurry with the Orion Home Video VHS release of the David Cronenberg classic They Came from Within aka Shivers. There is no doubt that the Afghan girl (now identified as Sharbat Gula) captivated the world...

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Canadian Initiative GET REEL Wants to Collect, Dismantle and Recycle Over 2 Billion VHS Tapes in Ontario!? But What Happens to the Content? VHS Collectors and Media Preservationists Speak Out! *UPDATED!*

Today Tapeheads everywhere were set ablaze with analog-oriented indignation when met with an internet headline that read as follows: “Calling All VHS Tapes: Group Aims to Find and Recycle Ontario’s 2.26 Billion VCR Relics” Plainly put, this group is out to rid Ontario of its unwanted VHS tapes. The reception of this notion resulted in massive keyboard rage and a number of internet shares expressly to raise awareness of the “anti” persuasion. My ardent analog interest and predilection for preservation piqued my investigative response to all this and I, too, had some concerns raised about the incredible loss of content...

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David Gary and Aaron Pratt Team Up to Implement Nearly 3K Horror and Various Genre VHS into the Yale Library with Plans to Further Document and Preserve Video Era Information, Ephemera and Culture!

Hold on to your VCRs, Tapeheads, because this nugget of news just might make your heads spin at a revolutionary rate. Approximately 2,700 VHS tapes are currently being accounted for, cataloged and prepared for posterity at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. The work of Kaplanoff Librarian for American History David Gary and analog inspirator Aaron Pratt GRD ’16 has propelled Yale to become the first institution in the nation to consciously collect and preserve VHS tapes. This unprecedented official collection of unadulterated analog madness is set to reside in Yale’s realm of academic reference. With this implementation the...

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Jimmy Buttons and His Videovore Crew Prepare to Go Totally Tape Ape with the Upcoming Tape Ape VHS Swap Meet Happening on April, 25th 2015 in Columbus, OH! Buy, Sell, Trade and Unite!!

VHS-obsessed events do much more than bring together analog-inclined minds in search of brain-bending magnetic magic. They foster the tangibility and expansion of a culture. Tape-talking online forums such as Horror VHS Collectors Unite! and those java-jivin’ VHS revivin’ VHS Misfits help collect the central interests, opinions and overall conscience of the VHS collector via the internet, but it’s events such as Severed, Tape Eaters, VHSwap and now Jimmy Buttons’ upcoming Tape Ape VHS Swap Meet that make the VHS collector culture explode into an arena of reality. These events bring fellow Tapeheads face to face in an atmosphere of...

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