Joe Pickett

Last November, I attended a show put on by the Found Footage Festival and Found Magazine in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I had been unaware of the FFF, but the videos they showed were hilarious, examples of unintentional (and intentional humor) from the golden age of VHS when anyone could publish their own whacky videos. Highlighting perfect time capsules of the excesses and oddities of late '80s, early '90s culture. I finally got around to reading their book, a compilation of the bizarre and absurd VHS covers, advertising instructional videos for painting miniatures or crafting jigs!, cat videos from before the internet, and other fun stuff. While not, of course, as utterly hilarious as the FFF video collections, VHS the book is still an entertaining look back at the video age and some good found retro fun.… (meer)