User:ThomasW/interview

What are you making now?

Making, working on the video grinder, comes from mixing video signals re wiring the cabling, low and hight the signals Two video signals, VHS, or DVD go from etch device that merges into one cables and into the tv or the projector.. But where the signals meet where you can tweak with a nob.

What kinda of video are you looking for?

That I don’t know yet. Idea last night to show ads for VHS and one with ads DVD.. then they battle for being the best, but it really don’t matter, but in the end it don’t matter since they are both obsolete.

What do you mean with the best?

But that the thing with technology, we all want something new or better or they say we need something new and better. Its a flash feeling, they are going to go observable true pure time, or the technology being developed.. they need to sell you something. The old tech is okay, but the drive to developed something.. its briefly better.

By looking back on past, it gives you hindsight and learn from them, but old technology. We put things on old formats and then they get left there and then we cant access them now more since we maybe have not the VHS player no more and then the tapes dies..

Is that the decay you talk about?

Thats the, multilevel levels, the decay of the medium, the players, you don’t have it now more and then you have a stack of family video on VHS, on a format that none got access to no more.

Access Ye, access.. if you have book that's 10 years old you can always read the book.. if you have a VHS, then you need a VHS player and then you need a tape that work. So many level if you got access to the video or not.

What the point you want to make?

I am developing, urge to make something, interesting and find a way to fit it in.. I have the technology now and then find a way conway the message.

=== GO back to the “Video Grider” you said something about the battle between VHS and DVD Can you explain better ===

Well, think around the late 90s, early 2000s, Sony developed the DVD. And technical a better.. better colour, sound, multiple sub tittles. Pushed to get rid of you VHS player.

Economic, why you see a battle , they all deal with information The DVD is going the way of the VHS, What happened with the VHS is happing with the DVD. They are all going obsolete.. the DVD is the new DVD .. but still developing..

The Battle between VHS and Blue-ray or DVD..? o usb stick Well blue-ray is a newer technology.. so need to be the VHS and DVD. Need to be then BLUE-RAY and HD DVD.. know all formats got their old siblings.. like BETAMAX and VHS, BLUE-RAY and HD DVD.. you have things battle.. marketshare.

More about us putting our knowledge and memory on formats on physical formats and then for the pushing technology out the door and then we leave knowledge and memory on formats that get left with no way to access them.

Interesting on having a battle between storage medium?

You starting on a mixer between video?

Just an idea I had, and the conversation between or true the medium of medium, and then use VHS or found footage on VHS. If I can find.

What kind of video or footage?

Downloading VHS tapes, or commercial. VHS is interesting since it got this layer of information. Like homemade, recorded tapes have this parts.. some football matches, half of a movie here and there. Its this patch work of footage and reflect the past owners. Not like DVD.

Is this important for you video grinder?

Its part of the whole part of dividend content. The “Video Grinder” don’t need VHS, it can take whatever video feed you make.

Do you need two feeds?

No, I can have how many feeds a like, but the I can have many feeds I like, but for the “prototype” I am sticking with one. But I can expand on it.

Is that something you want?

Even that its kinda over done, I do kind like the video glitch ascetics, special if you do it manual, there at video giltching apps, but something you do yourself. Maybe more random.. funny

So you not only interested in the video itself. But you want the physical object?

Ye, maybe. Multiple VHS.. like a DJ thing.. got the scifi and then the romance one and comedy one... and then you can mix them.. still developing..

How do you decide witch two you want to mix from the pile you have?

First I need a pile of video in the first place Dependence on the content, the conversation is a prototype workshop. The Vide Grinder is just a side idea. I can make video for venus..

What kind of content are you looking for? Ads.. found footage can be really random.

Found footage, can look family video.. like one can be family footage and the other one can be ads taking about the benefits about VHS..

===How does this connect your previous work? You stared on the Video Grinder, can you describe in one sentence what the video grinder is? === The Video Grinder is a handmade mixer to mix video feeds.

How does this connect to your previous projects, you said something about decay.

VHS is an obsolete format right now, also the physical of it.. you need to store it at home, it takes space Maybe the reason is that I am annoy right now we are putting your memory’s on formats and we get a pile of obsolete formats.

Thats interesting, can you give a reason why we do that?

We can want easy access, we don’t don’t got the library.. still thinking about it.. we get a lot of promises.. just put it on the cloud.. its going to be safe.. we get fake prominences This ad about handing down their magnetic tapes, give it your your grandkids..but they really want it? Will the tapes be still readable? If you have a book you can easy give it away later.. if not like your house burn down or get flooded?

Is it really the access? False promises?

Ye, fake promises, its technology, I like technology. We all like the new and greats.. we all got dvd.. Like before you had the plough for the horse and then we get tractor and then a bigger tractor.. think we looking for something better and not satisfied with the reason.

=== If you go back, to you graphic design background, reflect on how its now ?  ===

When I was 14 I learn myself a publish program and made a computer game magazine and sold it around school. Always been a connection for me between computer technology and graphic design. I like to share knowledge, if I have knowledge and I share that.. with graphics. Visual it.

How do you store your own content

Hehe, how I store my own content.. I got multiple hard-drives in multiple places.. its not 100% safe but better then one copy..

Is it easy accessible?

For me it is, but not for others..

How do you store it?

I keep it in standard formats, like JPGS, Tif, pure text files, open text files formats. Think about You migrate it, every 5 years you put in on a new formats or device. No silver bullet. Not ideal solution yet.