I've made 24 (two dozen) of these. I'm not doing any more.
Do you remember when your VCR broke and you decided not to get another because they were sort of old technology? DVD was replacing VHS and you could probably buy the shows you wanted as season sets on DVD soon. Have they released those shows yet? Maybe you started watching different stuff because they didn’t release them? I don’t know but many films aren’t being replaced on DVD at my local video shop when the VHS copy dies … I can’t find Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure in any DVD rental place… and find me The Last Star Fighter while you’re looking. I fucking loved that movie! These boxes are beautiful, colourful and they mean things. Blank DVD’s come on spindles, they don’t work sometimes or in some players. You can’t always fast forward through a fuzzy bit, the thing just stops… “READ ERROR” WTF? Things look right on VHS, The Dark Crystal, Star Wars, Alien, Thomas the Tank Engine, Sooty, all better on tape, darker, warmer, grainier. We’ve lost something here, it’s changed, it ain’t cool. I don’t remember how long DVD’s have been with us. The nature of information acquisition and storage has changed. We don’t record Doco’s from the telly anymore. My old man must have had everything the Bush Tuckerman and the Leyland Brothers ever filmed. Several tapes full of Great Mysteries of the World and The World Around Us. None of these will ever be valuable enough to buy, but they were a little too valuable to lose also. This is indeed very sentimental work and that’s fine, its where these objects live. They live in sentiment and nostalgia, very recent nostalgia… It catches us quicker now doesn’t it? Nostalgic things used to be much older… they’d have cracks or rust. They used to be made of things that could crack or rust! They were never made of brightly coloured foil embossed cardboard and plastic, but that’s OK, because maybe these are the new Super 8 and they’re really pretty. | 
