Among my favourites was a series of videos explaining LaserDisc, a forgotten optical video format. In it, he quotes a particular Magnavox machine that inspired him:
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“Ever since I found out about [LaserDisc], I’ve been transfixed by this particular machine. (…) Magnavox player which just looks so radically different than any piece of AV equipment out there.” https://youtu.be/Eg8tK1LpLS8?t=651 …pic.twitter.com/041yscEnJw
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“Perhaps I’m the only one with this opinion, but I think this machine is one of the most beautiful pieces of AV equipment ever produced.” The kicker: He originally learned about this machine from Wikipedia. And the photo used on Wikipedia… is my photo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc#LaserDisc_players …
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Seeing my name just pop up in the corner of the screen, completely unexpectedly (I took this photo over 10 years ago), was such a delightful moment. Here I was, admiring the person who made all these videos – but it turned I already contributed a teensy bit to them!pic.twitter.com/Cd3REbLl7z
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This is why I scan obscure stuff for Internet Archive, upload and tag random things to Flickr, and so on: Because there’s a chance someone else, even more obsessed with these things than me, will do something really amazing with them.
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