VIDEO LEECH
Some observations on the digestion of dead media matter, VHS television capture, the psychology of broadcast retrieval, and some personal, uncanny confrontations with ‘undead’ channel surfing on video.
Written for the Media Essay Zine Jam.
Engorged in Decker and submitted simultaneously to Deck-Month-3.
ASSETS
Leech image taken from Wikimedia commons.
Uses the MuddyGrass 16 palette.
BROADCASTS REFERENCED
- THE BORED WITCH *rare* Found Footage of Lost English Dub
- Puttnam's Prairie Emporium Changes, Again ( Episode 26) Partial Video - 1991/11/21 - WOC
- CANADIAN TV CHANNEL SURFING - MARCH 27-30 1994 - WOC - 29:30 "Meta channel surfing" - channel surfing scene in sitcom The Second Half.
- VHS TV February 9, 1988 - Channel Surfing Canadian TV WOC
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Install instructions
Playable in HTML graphical interface format above in browser. Downloadable in .HTML and .DECK formats for offline play either in a web browser or in native Decker. Also downloadable in a more standard PDF essay format.
Comments
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I love this!! Very intriguing.
Ah, thanks so much for tuning in!
Absolutely superb presentation. I always love what you do in Decker but above and beyond that admiration I have for your craft this was just really good as an essay and as a presentation of the concept interwoven with the text.
You can’t tell because of the invertebrates crawling all over my face but I swear I am blushing! But seriously thank you, it’s very gratifying to hear the “melding” worked, and from a multimedia wizard like yourself!
Great work as always!
Ah, thank you! I appreciate it a lot. Do take a leech for the road.
i like this zine, both the contents and the presentation :>
Thank you I am really happy the combo of the two worked for you! Was a bit of an experiment
oh, thank you for the creeture feature!