Articles tagged "videodrome"

Godspeed, Brian Chii, and may your flying cars always remain mental.

The other time that arm-waving geeks filled San Francisco’s inordinate number of coffee shops and brainstormed en masse about how to solve the world’s problems with the internet.

In 1965, the U.S. sent 3,500 Marines into Vietnam to support the Air Force's activities and begin the United States' ground war in a region that had already seen decades of fighting. The surge was cause for General William Westmoreland to infamously

Salvador Dali's career has, over the years, slowly been distilled into posters of melting junk that inspire millions of _whooooaaaaas_ in dorm rooms everywhere, but his surrealist work wasn't limited to the canvas. In fact, he designed an entire pavi…

them toasted, and she wants them right the hell now. I'm not sure what Bird's Eye's ad strategy was in the 60s, but at least someone thought they could hock their doughnut squares -- what the hell is that anyway? A lame-ass version of a Pop Tart?

The 70s were a rough time for environmental efforts. Sure, the Iran oil crisis and smog regulations helped clean up America's roads. But they also pushed Americans into poorly designed, gutless shitboxes of cars for the next two decades. Meanwhile, A…

Flying, spinning, falling. Repeat. Going to space in the early days seems even less like some graceful parting ways with gravity and atmosphere than in launch/orbit footage we see now. It looks more like riding an old rickety roller coaster, but the

Videodrome is Motherboard’s weekly look at the weird old archival footage lurking around the web. Check out old posts here. It’s Friday, which means it’s party time, right? Only problem is, sometimes you’re sitting there sucking back a ‘grita, wit…

I was digging around Archive.org for some archival healthcare videos — you know, because healthcare is kind of a hot topic today — hoping to find some jolly old PSAs from the early part of 20th century with doctors suggesting you smoke meth for chron…

In 1975, performance art collective Ant Farm burned a stack of TVs in their piece “Media Burn” because they believed the technology of television produced “hierarchy” and “alienation”. One confident member even predicted that their performance would…

“Burn witch! Burn witch! BURN WITCH BURN!” That’s a very young Christopher Lee shouting his way through a horrifying witch-burning flashback in the opening to 1960’s Horror Hotel. Lee would go on to make a huge career for himself as the Dracula (a…

Quoth the U.S. Information Agency (RIP): ARC Identifier 54491 / Local Identifier 306.9415. SY BOURGIN INTERVIEWS …

In the late 70s, Shatner was waxing poetic about the future of transistors from inside a futuristic TV set.

In 2009, an email began to spread around blogs and studio folks from one "Dewet Du Toit":http://www.facebook.com/tarzan.ddt, a "HIGHLY SELF MOTIVATED 22-YEAR OLD BODYBUILDER / ACTOR" that claimed he would be perfect for Stephen Sommers' "new parkour-…

This is a selection from a feature documentary about mycologist Paul Stamets and his life of mushrooms, produced by Louie Schwartzberg. The footage of mushroom mycelia slowly bursting forth from the ground is matched by Stamets' commentary on the imp…

"One simple question: Do you want to be rich, famous, demented, and dead at 40?" So asks Dr. Rajendra Kale, of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, of the thousands of young hockey players (football players should include themselves) who risk br…

bq. A BOOK THAT COULD HAVE CHANGED THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. IT CONTAINS THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS OF A GENIUS WHO WAS CENTURIES AHEAD OF HIS TIME. HIS NAME WAS ARCHEMEDES {sp}. THE BOOK WAS LOST TO THE WORLD FOR MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND YEARS. PASSING T…

Amidst the sound and fury over Wikileaks and Julian Assange, it's easy to forget about Army private "Bradley Manning":http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/6/11/wikileaks-vs-wired-over-military-secrets-did-someone-break-the-sacred-oath--2, the likely source…