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thedailydoodles: “VHS Memories” A generation of memories, recorded on magnetic tapeGood moments to savour, and bad ones to escape.Static-y audio and dull palettes that bled,All fading away on a format that’s dead. Your life painstakingly recorded so you can remember it always,On cheap tape that rots on a shelf, and no longer plays.Temporary technology meant the recordings don’t lastSo all of our VHS memories have been left in the past. As more times passes, your youth becomes harder to recallAnd now there’s no proof you had a childhood at all. Posted 12/27/2011 Wanna star in your very own Daily Doodle?  CLICK HERE!FAQ  TWITTER  FACEBOOK CLICK HERE to read Yesterday’s Doodle!

thedailydoodles:

“VHS Memories”

A generation of memories, recorded on magnetic tape
Good moments to savour, and bad ones to escape.
Static-y audio and dull palettes that bled,
All fading away on a format that’s dead.

Your life painstakingly recorded so you can remember it always,
On cheap tape that rots on a shelf, and no longer plays.
Temporary technology meant the recordings don’t last
So all of our VHS memories have been left in the past.

As more times passes, your youth becomes harder to recall
And now there’s no proof you had a childhood at all.

Posted 12/27/2011

Wanna star in your very own Daily Doodle?  CLICK HERE!
FAQ  TWITTER  FACEBOOK

CLICK HERE to read Yesterday’s Doodle!

livelymorgue:

April 1, 1976: Alfred Hitchcock in his suite at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. “After knighthood,” the caption read, quoting Hitchcock, ” ‘all that was left was to await death, a few vodkas hastening its advent.’ ” A note on the back of the photograph clarified who was directing the photo shoot: “The picture showing Mr. Hitchcock creeping his way through the plant in his room was his idea.” Hitchcock died the following year. Photo: Jack Manning/The New York Times

On the Road. Ohhh, no, Sam Riley!

Criterion: Pedro Costa

Criterion: Pedro Costa

Even if the comparison that you make with Marienbad is favourable to Jules et Jim, Resnais’s film is so special that people are more curious about it. Mine is a good film that one can see, his is a curiosity that one has to have seen. - François Truffaut in a letter to Helen Scott, 20 June 1962 

(Source: oldfilmsflicker, via thesoviette)

Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), dir. Jim Jarmusch

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