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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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STRANGE BUT TRUE: The Bib Video Alarm! Our Fellow Videovore Al “Sauce” Moschetti Take Us Back to His Trip Into the Wild Where He Found One Groovy and Weird Analog Era Gadget!

In the world of contemporary VHS collecting, the profusion of online auctions, explosion of internet-based collecting forums and extension of the “pick, post and flip” trend with video tapes has seemingly provided an endless ocean of analog delights awaiting every Videovore courtesy of their world weird web portal. It’s now easier than ever to clickity-click your way to a virtual treasure chest of black plastic gold, fire up the PAYPAL and then eagerly await your new slab o’ analog to arrive, hopefully devoid of any bubble mailer disasters. But over here in Lunchmeat Land, lest the magnetic-crazed masses forget about...

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Analog Addicted Label Lighten Up Sounds Prepares to Unleash the New CLEAR FLUIDS EP Via VHS for Your Fix of Fantasy SciFi Synth Sounds and Analog Era Insanity! And Did I Mention They Release 8-Tracks? BELIEVE IT, MY MAGNETIC MANIACS!

Lighten Up Sounds proprietor Matthew Himes has certainly assembled an impressively prolific avalanche of analog creations over the past several years. His active roster and alumni of audio entities span the globe, harnessing aural inclinations from sci-fi tinged soundscapes to head-throbbing experimental harsh noise. His passion for high quality packaging and physical presentations mixed with an ardent affection for warm formats has shaped the meticulous artistry that defines Lighten Up. Read on, my fellow Videovores, and prepare to possibly trade in your spare VCR for an 8-track player… The Lighten Up Sounds Logo. Cryptic, man. DIG IT. LM: Can you...

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Cult Favorite CRINOLINE HEAD Director Tommy Faircloth is Back in Horror Business with His New Short Film THE CABIN, Issuing it on Limited Edition VHS and Announcing Plans for CRINOLINE HEAD 2 and the Creation of CRIMSON SCREEN FILM FEST!

Immersing himself in the escape of entertainment-oriented imagination at an early age with tape recorders and tedious yet remarkable memorization of full movies, and then on through the toils of a college career of filmmaking, writer and director Tommy Faircloth has managed to carve out a cult following for his nutty 90s slasher CRINOLINE HEAD and his equally wacky and wild GENERATION AX. But after a bit of a hiatus from horror and aiming his movie-making skills at roller coaster rides (literally), a revived interest in his films on VHS has inspired him to get back into the grue game...

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