where next for no-longer blank videos in an age of their looming unwantedness (by me)

Hullo ILE!

I am tidying my flat. Yes, I am. And I have a wall of videos to ditch -- not nice pre-recorded ones that can go to Oxfam or wherever, but stuff recorded off of TV, of interest to no one, probably. I think the v first broadcast of the Young Ones is here somewhere (this is the era of the earliest) but my aerial was a coathanger in those days, and the TV wasn't much better.

Anyway, besides the town dump, is there anyone likely to want these for anything? Or is it landfill time?

Car boot sale?

Could well be of interest to some folks if there is stuff there that's never been released on DVD.

Seth Romatelli
East Hollywood, CA

if you've got any episodes of Peter Tinniswood's The Home Front i will pay 1 million dollars a pop

my friend lance ended up with tom rapp's vhs collection (he of pearls before swine - tom gave them to lance) and the contents were illuminating. all stuff he had taped off of t.v.

can only imagine the hidden depths of sinkah video nasties.

do you know any video artists?

You can pay to get them recycled if you want, as long as you have over 100:

http://www.ems-europe.co.uk/services/domestic-tape-disc/

Probably an expensive thing to ship though, and anyway, I'm not sure how energy efficient it'd be to get them transported all the way to Bristol considering the weight and bulk of them.

my friend lance ended up with tom rapp's vhs collection (he of pearls before swine - tom gave them to lance) and the contents were illuminating. all stuff he had taped off of t.v.

can only imagine the hidden depths of sinkah video nasties.

― scott seward, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how have i never heard this story before?!?! details please.

Basically I am assuming they will *only* be wanted for re-recording purposes (ie what's on them thanks to me is not remotely the selling point). But maybe no one wants them even for this?

I don't want to send them to landfill if someone has a use for them. And I don't mind someone getting them for free if they're going to be used.

The stuff that's never been released I will probably hang on to -- there's maybe a small shelf-full, dated music documentaries and such.

I have already catalogued them bcz I am a colossal menk made of pure narcissistic vanity.

video drearies

Send them to the Museum of Kim's Video in Sicily as described here: http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-09-12/film/kims-%20video-Sicily/

seems like i can't see a dj w/o a projection of vhs ephemera happening on a wall with it. how does that stuff circulate?

I STILL have to find the vhs tape I have where I taped an inept and demented Christian rock band on public access cable with a completely bizarre lead singer doing grunge covers with their own made-up Christian-themed lyrics. they did pearl jam, and nirvana as well as r.e.m. and others. would definitely be a youtube sensation if I could figure out where the tape was. and how to put it on the computer. grunge-era footage. oh the hilarity/humanity...

if my own experience is anything to go by, it doesn't have to circulate, it's already there, in any household more than five years old peopled by those as lazy and/or slatternly as me

"how does that stuff circulate?"

thrift stores. yard sales. oh, sorry, charity shoppes and car boot sales.

Someone needs to invent a way your can melt down your old VHS tapes and use them to fuel a car or something.

video fueled this crazy ol' car

already got the marketing campaign sorted

Seth Romatelli
East Hollywood, CA

― how's life, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

skpe them to his inbox

had this conversation this weekend, weirdly. You can't recycle VHSs in the normal way (and tbh I don't think charity shops will take/can sell bought VHSs).
Try this: http://www.ems-europe.co.uk/
there's a place in my city to take them, you just have to fill in a form. Or see if your council website has recommendations.
I really hate the thought of all that bulk going straight into landfill.

oh wait I think that's only based in one place. Check with your council though.

UPDATE QUERY:

9 years later: i did literally nothing to move these guys out of my house, they are still in three large boxes (i am currently moving them into smaller boxes that i can lift)

i: this is c.100 videos adequately recorded by me (and my sister) off the telly in the 80s, 90s, early 00s
ii: mostly films (and mostly films available on-line)
iii: some TV eg brookside, twin peaks, buffy etc
iv: various random depressing documantaries (not gnna say this is my sister's work but this is my sister's work, i am 1 x flimsy gemini)

SO:
1: are there places that archive projects collecting films recorded this way? (seems a reach but there might be and someone here might know)
2: if not what is the usual/best/most social responsible way of getting rid? (islington reuse and recyclinbg centre = the town dump says they go into "general waste")
3: see my posts above for further detail

typical scribbled label: LOLITA || ELVIS || BROOKSIDE

i don't have a working video player to establish further info on this cross-cultural feast

consensus among non-ilx pals is that the ads and interstitials are of more interest to archives these days than the content i believed i was capturing, which is a pity, bcz

a) i have no means (or indeed time) to replay them to see when ads and interstitials have been recorded in quantity, means or indeed time)
b) i was very good indeed at tactical pausing to avoid recording ads and interstitials

(brief aside: the first person i heard say the word INTERSTITIAL was roger delgado as the master in dr who in like 1971 -- he was saying it as an adjective if you want to crank up the crank thread abt adjectives not being nouns)

I am slightly surprised that there isn't informal hipster recycling in the Hackney ecology that would solve this. Here in Lambeth, there's a couple of dedicated shelves near my local community centre/gardens where you can put unwanted items that you think other may be interested in - and they nearly always disappear with a day. I've seen DVDs, books, magazines, home-burnt CDs, tapes, videotapes etc. (Of course, you couldn't put out 100 tapes at once)

i will look into this! it does sound plausible

tho part of my problem will be that the labels on several of the tapes have faded way beyond legibility (or just plain fallen off) and i have no way to playback to rectify this

(i mean i guess i could buy a second-hand videoplayer but it's more work than i want to put into this project = throwing stuff away without throwing it away)

i technically do have the equipment to watch vhs still, although it hasn't physically been connected to the tv for ~10 years. video capture card in the desktop as well (but again, hasn't been connected fo 10 years)

another retirement project (along with digitising all the vinyl)

happy to let you cart away my many vids koogsy, to enrich yr retirement :)

I need to work out who it is I follow on Twitter that's always on the lookout for videos for ads etc

Freecycle my go to for getting rid of tat treasured possessions before taking them to the tip.

There's one in Islington https://www.freecycle.org/town/IslingtonEastUK

yeah there's a hackney freecycle but surely only insane ppl wd want poor-quality VHS recordings of 30-yr-old TV w/little idea what they were getting bcz the label fell off

i can ask (it's free)

but that’s my fetish

dude you know where i live you can fetch them any time