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Work has been slammed lately. On top of my other commitments I haven't had much time to sit down and go through more of the mystery tapes from the estate sale until now.
The next tape was simply labeled "space" and is a good hour of
shooting some model planets over a backdrop of stars. Some great
miniature work that comes out well on the VHS format. Near the end the
creator actually moves his hand into the shot to give some scale to the
miniature planets and shows us that they've been suspended to the
backdrop giving a little illusion of depth.
The next tape labeled "Skeleton Rider" shows us another puppet
they were working on. So far I'm about a half hour in and it's just
footage of this skeleton figuring swaying on this galloping furry
creature. I'll revisit this one later to see if there's any other
footage of note.
Finally, maybe the most noteworthy update, is we have the
artist's name. This tape was labeled "The Art of Tim Smith." It starts
as a bit of a room tour, silently moving around the space showing some
of the puppets and sculptures we've seen previously before taking some
extended shots of his various paintings. I enjoy his line work and
subject matter, obviously a fan of fantasy and science fiction. It's
nice to have a name now, though I'm not having much luck at all in
finding out more about them on the web or social media. As you can
imagine the name "Tim Smith" leads to a lot of dead ends.
I'll continue to watch the tapes for more content and clues. We
may not ever know who this person was, but the content along the way is
certainly interesting.
*Page updates
I've added a knowledge library section to the site that will
contain information on VHS care and maintenance, collecting, as well as
creating your own tapes. I'm still working on building the pages within
so it's an empty library at this point but stay tuned. I also found some
of my files from my original Geocities Sonic fan page so I'm toying
with uploading those in there as well.
Also cleaned up some links here and there and general tidying up. As always, thanks for stopping by!
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