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Video from The Milk Teeth for their new single 'Go Faster Stripes'. Inspired by 'The Cramps - Live at Napa State Mental Institute' Shot using a modified 1973 Sony Portapak.

         

cramps@napa (pt.1); if your intent was discomfort and accents of exploitation, well done.

         

I don't know prog, this is nicely executed and simple. Sure whenever you throw a few crazies in there you are asking for some post from Nami, but this is a nice little homage to that Cramps clip.

         

that cramps gig rocks! nice find. the effect in this video looks like an after effects bad-video plugin instead of an in camera effect.

         

Its not a 'in camera' effect or a plug in. This is how Portapak footage looks (with a slight bit of grading). It was basically, the first video camera.

         

I love old video, in all its noisy, smeary, low-latitude, interlaced glory. Specially the really old stuff where you get a black flare adjacent to the highlights.

Maybe because this has been deinterlaced or compressed at 25fps, or maybe because it's been graded (distinctly inauthentic 1970s) it doesn't read as old school video. It just looks low latitude - an effect that can as easily be achieved with a modern DV camera.

As a performance, it's quite nice.

On a historical note: Video cameras have been around since the 1920s. Without them, TV couldn't exist. The difference was that they required huge equipment, 2 inch tape recording units and almost constant adjustment by technicians.

The early 70s Portapak is one of the earlier portable video cameras, although according to this online museum of defunct video technology portable video gear extends back to the 60s.

Portable!

         

it looks really crap though. they do dv cams down the market here for 300 dollars that look even better. i'd say it's portalo!

         

way beyond good taste. sorry, I dont like to see other people suffer.

         

Which way beyond good taste? The good way or the bad way? Who is suffering? Its not real life...

Oh and Storme, if you bought a DV camera that looked like this footage then I'd get a refund if I were you...

Besides, spending 300 dollars would have blown the budget anyways...

         

mr rollison........you are a man with a large brian capacity and you look great in that photo. Maybe you hire me that camera or ask stien if he'll give me a crash course

         

it just comes down to taste, I guess. its like some of the cunningham videos. playing around with the strangeness of people. trying to go to extrems. also to get attention. or maybe as an art vision. its allright but not everybody has to like it. - I liked the camera-effect and I think it is in proper use here. very difficult to create the same look just in postproduction.

         

true. personally I have no problem with the dramatization or reenactment of an asylum for music video purposes. that may be a serious moral loophole in my character though.