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This guy made fake VHS covers for new shows/movies and they're awesome.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 4/2/15 at 7:24 pm
check out GoT
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Remember when you missed the season finale of Breaking Bad and you had to wait like a year until the series finally came out on VHS so you could watch it?
No, but now you could imagine what that might have been like. Here are some recent movies and popular shows reimagined as 1980s-era VHS tapes, and they are simply wonderful. Not just in their typeface-perfect execution, but in the way they scramble history. These objects never existed—and they will never exist.
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As part of an April Fools’ joke (that’s Poisson d’Avril in French), blogger Julien Knez pretended that he interviewed a hipster who “only watches movies on VHS” (which I’m not really sure is a thing but is actually something that characters in the new Noah Baumbach movie do)
As part of the gag, Knez mocked up nine completely convincing VHS packages for movies and shows using the bygone brands and logos that have only ever been associated with such artifacts.
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What’s impressive is how fully he committed to the gag, producing the packaging, tracking down a variety of cases, and photographing the tapes in a 1980s-era living room (where did he get that TV???).
per Gizmodo
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Posted on 4/2/15 at 7:28 pm to aVatiger
Awesome.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 7:48 pm to aVatiger
This takes me back to the days of spending $10-20 for a vhs tape that only had one or two episodes on it. It's amazing how much mileage we got out of single episode copies of Star Trek: TNG. Imagine the bread required in collecting the whole series at that rate.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 8:24 pm to aVatiger
Nice
Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:05 pm to Dodgson
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Imagine the bread required in collecting the whole series at that rate.
i have friends that still do this with South Park DVDs
Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:18 pm to aVatiger
I used to love the long movies that required two tapes like The Godfather, The Green Mile, etc. It gave you a chance to eject and rewind the first tape, take a little bathroom/snack break, then enter the second tape and finish it.
I mean, now you can still stop a DVD at the halfway point but it's just not the same experience
I mean, now you can still stop a DVD at the halfway point but it's just not the same experience
Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:29 pm to Marciano1
man there was nothing better than getting off the bus on a Friday and riding my bike down to Cormies in Lake Charles to get a VHS and SNES game for the weekend
it didn't get any better than that. I would stop at the grocery store next door and get a 2 liter of dr pepper and a large bag of M&Ms..
ah the simple life!
it didn't get any better than that. I would stop at the grocery store next door and get a 2 liter of dr pepper and a large bag of M&Ms..
ah the simple life!
Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:29 pm to Marciano1
Looking at these VHS tapes is making me hungry for pizza.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:39 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I loved going to the freaking video store. There was no internet (or not as mainstream) so you had to go look at the movies and read the back of the box to see if you might like it. Oh and that damn $1 charge if you didn't rewind it 
It was great going get one or two VHS movies and a Sega Genesis game or two.
The 90s
It was great going get one or two VHS movies and a Sega Genesis game or two.
The 90s
Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:46 pm to Marciano1
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I loved going to the freaking video store.
My favorite college job by far. Alfalfa Video On Johnston Street in Time Plaza in Lafayette. To this day I LOVE movie trailers because it's essentially all we watched while at work. We'd get a new set every couple months as studios produced 2 hour tapes full of 2+ minutes trailers. While I have watched a metric ton of movies because we got to take them home for free every night, I feel like I've watched even more from simply seeing trailers for movies a million times I never actually saw.
Also...I wish I had a dollar for every time we had to explain that, "Yes...in fact a video tape WILL melt if you leave it on your dash in South Louisiana summer, and YES that's really the cost of replacing that new tape you lost. We paid $65 for it and you need to replace it..."
Good times...
Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:55 pm to aVatiger
Clamshell cases, ftw,
Posted on 4/2/15 at 10:15 pm to shutterspeed
For a singnificant portion of my childhood the highlight of the week was a Friday night trip to the movie store.
Posted on 4/2/15 at 11:47 pm to aVatiger
Looking at those movies is making miss video stores, and the countless hours I spent browsing.
I loved the whole ordeal of grabbing a bite to eat with a girlfriend in highschool then going to the video store afterwards to find a flick. Then you would head back to your parents house, make a bowl of popcorn, head upstairs, put the movie in, watch the first ten-fifteen minutes and then just start fooling around. Ahhhh, to be young.
I loved the whole ordeal of grabbing a bite to eat with a girlfriend in highschool then going to the video store afterwards to find a flick. Then you would head back to your parents house, make a bowl of popcorn, head upstairs, put the movie in, watch the first ten-fifteen minutes and then just start fooling around. Ahhhh, to be young.
Posted on 4/3/15 at 7:44 am to betweenthebara
I work in the audio video business and one of my accounts up until a year ago was an old school movie store. I went there all the time just to smell the popcorn and eat some raisonettes while we met. It was heaven.
I would stay and just walk the aisles and he let me have first run of the store when he sold it
They didn't do shite for my business so I had to explain to my boss why I always went by there. Lol
I would stay and just walk the aisles and he let me have first run of the store when he sold it
They didn't do shite for my business so I had to explain to my boss why I always went by there. Lol
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