Made visuals for a Sego vid
Old pal Spencer Petersen reached out to me to collaborate on a music video for Sego.
Since leaving the business of music, my inner north star has always led me to decolonize music, to make it more communal, more open to everyone. So for this project, my intention was to set up a glitch machine and turn the band loose on it. Of course while the band was performing, I had to be piloting the glitch ship myself, but I gave the band time to do their own experimentation.
It was a fun shoot. Shoutout to the man Dano Sripuntanagoon for help with lighting, and Marl Superstar for helping hands and vibes.
God damn, TVs are a TON of weight.
It’s hard to describe the magic of seeing those images in person. I tried my best to capture what is feels like. Online it definitely loses a lot - let’s face it, CRT imagery has made its way into the roar of digital visual noise at this point. It’s not inherently new. But in person it certainly is something else.
The technology is fascinating to learn about. It’s almost unfathomable to me that people in the 1920’s figured out how to use essentially an electron gun to recreate images - basically by using very high frequencies to force the gun to scan screen lines several times per second. This was before any kind of digital anything was around. It’s an incredibly high amount of information being captured and transmited. It is nothing short of magic honestly. And there’s a certain quality the screens have - there’s phosphorus inside, and it has a glowing quality. It’s sort of hypnotizing. Our phone and tv screens now are so much more clean and perfect. But old crt TVs look electric.
Those of us who grew up in the 2000s or before remember this look. I don’t remember clocking those qualities of it then though. It was sort of all we had, so I remember being amazed when something looked extra crisp on TV. My family’s 27” JVC tv was super clean and the image was clear. I’m sure if we watched something on it today we would see it as soft and low res.
It’s also interesting to me that we have long since tooled down from the manufacturing infrasctructure that made these televisions. So the TVs that exist today, that’s it - there will be no more built. It’s a fading technology, so it’s naturally a scarce experience.
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