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Former Four Star Video Owner Brian Armstrong Recollects His Rental Store Adventure and Shares His Reverence for the VHS Format!

For some people, VHS is a way of life. Four Star Video patron turned proprietor Brian Armstrong eats, breathes and sleeps video era appreciation; he spent the majority of 25 years within the video lined walls of his now defunct Nitro, WV rental shop. And now that the doors have come to their final close, Brian’s been able to look back at his analog adventure and share how his passion for magnetic magic helped him lend out a load of analog excitement, forge a connection with an abundance of customers and bond with a flood of fellow film crazed friends....

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Italian Video and Sound Editor Gianluca Licciardi Creates an Analog Aesthetic Pastiche Aptly Entitled "VHS" for SI FEST International Photography Fest!

The VHS format is seemingly inspiring an array of artists around the world to infuse analog aesthetics into their work in a multitude of ways, and a recent offering from Italian video / sound editor Gianluca Licciardi has again upped the analog-adoring army of artistic creations with a visual smorgasbord of video-sourced cinema. The result is an engaging and eclectic mix of magnetic magic entitled simply VHS. Soaked with video-era aesthetics such as soft color bleeds and wonky tracking galore, and set to a remix-o-rama soundtrack of the dance / pop / rock persuasion, Licciardi’s VHS offers another spin on...

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UK-based Comedian Jack Lattimer Unearths Analog Treasures for His Online Review Show TAPE DANCING! Prepare for Some Serious Analog Archaeology!

After showing off some acting chops on the BBC in his early years, analog media aficionado Jack Lattimer has recently returned to entertainment to introduce his online love letter to all things tape he calls TAPE DANCING. And this show isn’t just limited to our beloved slabs of magnetic magic, either, my friends. Lattimer and crew are digging deep through bottomless delete bins and unearthing utter analog obscurity through the magic of VHS, Beta and audio cassette in order to offer reviews on some of the most unheard, unseen and sadly unloved tape-committed treats you’ve probably never heard of. Chock...

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France-Based Artist Extraordinaire Patrick Massobrio and His NMPM Imprint Re-Animate VHS Cassettes With a Loving Homage to Video Era Horror with their VIDEO NASTIES Collection! DIG IT!

After an early love affair with illustration and sculpture and years of harvesting inspiration from chunks of magnetic magic, custom FX artist Patrick Massobrio along with his partner Nan have now created a line of analog-oriented artistic endeavors to drop your anti-digital jaw. Patrick and Nan’s creative imprint NMPM are currently crafting radical rewind renditions via souped-up home video skeletons, paying homage to some of horror and fantasy’s more adored (and abhorred) screen incarnations. So, my fellow Videovores, prepare yourself for some eye-popping slices of VHS-inspired nostalgia as Patrick and his NMPM brand dare to re-animate these bricks of black...

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University of Michigan Asst. Professor Daniel Herbert Prepares to Unveil His New Book VIDEOLAND, An Academic Approach to the Importance and Impact of Video Stores on the Landscape of Film, Video and Media Culture!

Daniel Herbert is an ardent film aficionado turned media culture scholar currently holding the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. His lifetime of cinematic obsession has most recently led him to pen his forthcoming tome VIDEOLAND, promising to be an academic yet accessible assemblage of thoughts on one of the most essential entities of VHS history: the video rental store. Herbert’s in-depth study goes far beyond that notion of a saccharine memoir on the rise and fall of bygone rental days. With VIDEOLAND, Herbert is delving deep into the importance and relevance of the culture that buzzed...

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