Mondotees top dog Tim Doyle gave me the heads up that he and a bunch of poster designing hooligans formed a group focusing on creating kick ass pop art on T-shirts and prints. The crew is called Nakatomi Inc. and one of the first thing they did was to commemorate the death of VHS (which ceased production last month) with a memorial T-shirt called "Never Forget" And forget we shouldn't, especially with this shirt.
VHS should never be forgotten as it started the home video boom and brought many if not all of us to the place we are now as film buffs and collectors. I still have a bunch of tapes and still pick up titles that are yet unavailable on DVD when I see them at flea markets and sometimes I buy them for the cover art alone.
The T-shirt comes in a old VHS clamshell with a black ribbon prompting us to never forget this hunk of plastic and vinyl that has stayed with us for so long. So head on over to the Nakatomi headquarters, pick up the shirt and take a gander at some other movie related stuff these good god damn guys have been making (my favorite is the Cereal Killer print, pure gold).
The guys also have blog going on that might interest some of you film geeks. Check them out.
This is the greatest shirt I've seen since the logo tees at Rotten Cotton. The VHS format certainly means a lot to me (the main focus of my own blog), and in many ways, is the perfect way to watch certain film genres. Remastering is vastly overrated. And let's not forget the ass-kicking cover art! Even when it was bad, it was good.
I still buy blank TDK's for all my archiving needs. Well, maybe not for much longer. Thanks for the post.
What about beta? Anyway, I remember that when Dvd's were first coming out one of the big claims was that they wouldn't be able to be copied, ever...*snicker*
The irony is that Beta is very much alive and well as it is the standard in the broadcast industry. And it's actually not that long ago that they stopped production of consumer Beta units.
Well, in reference to consumer Beta, someone should make a shirt that reads "BRING BACK BETA!". I'd buy that.