DEAD END VIDEO IN CONTEXT

Reading Rainbow - "Dead End" from Taryn Jones on Vimeo.

Our video for "Dead End" directed by our friend Taryn Jones, was inspired by films we've been watching recently like the ones we posted here by Richard Kern. We're definitely heavily influenced by music videos and short films shot on VHS and High 8 from the 80's and 90's, and the aesthetic used in this video is intentional. The black and white pixely parts were shot on a PXL 2000 Fisher Price toy camera that records directly on to cassette tapes. (Part of the movie "Slacker" was shot on Pixelvision.)

PIXELVISION!

We are currently shooting a music video all this week, and are filming part of the footage on Pixelvison! Pixelvision is a toy camera made by Fisher Price in the '80's that films onto cassette tape. A mutual friend gave Al his camera that he could never get to work - but our lovely director Taryn Jones figured out how to hook it up to record directly onto VHS cassette! It rules and makes everything look like a living photocopy!

Above is a siiiick video made using Pixelvision here in Philly in 1991 of FUGAZI at WKDU!!!