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Naro Expanded Video in Ghent still alive, while video stores nationwide all but extinct | Consumer & Retail | pilotonline.com https://pilotonline.com/business/consumer/naro-expanded-video-in-ghent-still-alive-while-video-stores/article_c6aea58a-53ff-5b04-a22a-f0b91b994ded.html

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LunchMeatVHS Blog » Houston, TX Tapehead Jason Champion Creates CHAMPION VIDEO: a Functional and Fantastic Video Rental Store in His Own Home! http://www.lunchmeatvhs.com/blog/championvideo/

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Southdale 1956 Richfield Edina Shopping Mall History Video - YouTube

Opened in 1956, Southdale Center in Edina, MN was the first fully enclosed shopping mall of its kind. Designed by Victor Gruen, it became the archetype of the typical American mall. Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker piece about Gruen is a great read. Southdale Mall still exists. It is situated off I-494, south of downtown Minneapolis and west of the airport -- a big concrete box in a sea of parking. The anchor tenants are now J.C. Penney and Marshall Field's, and there is an Ann Taylor and a Sunglass Hut and a Foot Locker and just about every other chain store that you've ever seen in a mall. It does not seem like a historic building, which is precisely why it is one. Fifty years ago, Victor Gruen designed a fully enclosed, introverted, multitiered, double-anchor-tenant shopping complex with a garden court under a skylight -- and today virtually every regional shopping center in America is a fully enclosed, introverted, multitiered, double-anchor-tenant complex with a garden court under a skylight. Victor Gruen didn't design a building; he designed an archetype. For a decade, he gave speeches about it and wrote books and met with one developer after another and waved his hands in the air excitedly, and over the past half century that archetype has been reproduced so faithfully on so many thousands of occasions that today virtually every suburban American goes shopping or wanders around or hangs out in a Southdale facsimile at least once or twice a month. Victor Gruen may well have been the most influential architect of the twentieth century. He invented the mall. Things were changing even as that piece was published in 2004. Sprawling shopping malls are closing and new construction has slowed dramatically. Commerce moved online and to big box stores. Southdale's still kicking though! http://kottke.org/16/04/video-footage-from-1956-of-the-first-american-shopping-mall

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When my kids and I create our band, The Bavalinos, this will be the model for our first music video. Love how the effect of it being a TV show works for the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EHpozHn-QA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlu3LPwHpBk

Presentation I gave at Whittier College on October 21, 2016.
http://diglibarts.whittier.edu/groom-video/

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What a bizarre music video from 1988, kind of a popular fusion of rap, new wave and punk (there's a Clash stick on the boom box :) ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-1DYwaxrE

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An informative video on how serves a billion requests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=15&v=MKgJeqF1DHw

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Here's a peek inside the 1981 Atari Video Computer System Catalog that shipped with Asteroids

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1980s video discs on the wall #umwconsole

Turns out the TV repair shop in Petersburg where I bought the Quasar TV was originally a video store, and they had custom built holders for videodiscs on their wood paneled walls. The owner of the shop showed them to me, and I decided I would build something like this myself, one day.

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Video Pinball for Atari 2600. Don't let the purists fool you, this one rules #umwconsole

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Most disappointing video game purchase of my life was back in 1981 #umwconsole

Pac-Man for the 2600 might have been the greatest disappointment of my life.

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Coleco Video Games for the Atari 2600 #umwconsole

This is a promotional pamphlet that accompanied Coleco video games for the Atari 2600 console. Donkey Kong was decent, but I really liked Venture and the Smurf game, personally. Given how rudimentary Venture graphics were in the Coin-op version, it almost seemed like a flawless port to the 2600. As for Gargamel's Castle, well, I've been an unrepentant Smurf fan since second or third grade.

Zach Whalen brought this over along with a ton of video cartridge manuals and other "paratext" as he described it. This stuff is alike a waterfall of context nostalgia. Between the cartridge art, the player manuals, advertisements like this one, and the actual cartridges and consoles---I really couldn't be happier. My office has transformed into an early 80s showroom. I'll be scanning and blogging as much of the cartridge art, manuals, and advetisements as I can as part of the Console Living Room exhibit. And Iyou can be sure I'll be flooding all the social mediaz with what I discover.

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Harmony Korine's 'The Legend of Cambo' | VICE | United States

EdTech Survivalist updated by Harmony Korine H/T @twoodwar

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Another video for presentation tomorrow from on containerization revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-k5bLQ9Epw

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Short video on preparing to set extender flange https://vimeo.com/115686808

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Great video on digital identity by some amazing UMW Students
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC5NmRXAmq0

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Atari Video Pinball | The Retroist

I had this Atari 2600 video pinball game and loved it.

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