last 80's video shop

The last 1980’s video Club

• The first video club I ever went to was in Bournemouth at the age of 8. The whole collection had been stolen from the QE2 cruise liner. My parents were so dysfuntional that they never managed to get the videos back on time. The fines really stressed me out.

• It was a relief therefore when the video shops died out, the VHS cassette in my father’s boot was no longer accruing fines.

• I began to wonder about obselete business models. Could you make a work again if they were turned into a work of art?

• The media theorist – Marshal Mcluhan said that each new evolution in communication had 4 impacts. The same is true of business models.

• It will enhance something that already happens.

• It will make something we presently do obsolete.

• It will retrieve a behaviour that was previously made obsolete by a previous innovation.

• If very successful it will ‘Flip-Out’ and have negative consequences.

A true innovation in business will do the following….

Can this be true of an old 1980’s video shop?

• Enhance – Fast Forward and Rewind on a VHS machine sound cool.

• Obsolete –It will make smart phones a thing of the past as you concentrate on the poor quality of the image.

• Retrieve – Having to play around with the tracking to get the image not to wobble.

• Flip Out – You will flip out at how cool you are to join a new video club.

• This 1980’s video club only contains 15 VHS cassettes, but all are rare and from a time before certification.

• You can rent these videos for £5.00 for a weekend.

• All you have to do to borrow one, is join the club is by emailing goldenanorak@gmail.com

• But don’t worry I won’t fine you if you are late bringing them back…..