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An ode to the counterculture of the 80s and 90s when unearthing quality culture was a real treasure hunt. Made as part of the Underground Filmmaker Festival. More of my films can be viewed at www.dannyplotnick.com.
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  • Great work Danny, look forward to talking more about this piece soon!
    bstein
  • There is certainly something to be said for "the hunt" something about actually being able to feel the book or the record in your hand, rather than a flat image on a screen--but then again nostalgia is a dangerous emotion...

    Great work Danny, I love how this all came together.
    sarahbelle
  • Whoa. So this pretty successfully transports me back to growing up in suburban Alabama, and trading super-rare t-shirts or VHS compilations of the Misfits or whatever the hell else it seemed like I had to get ahold of through one of two portals to the internet :AOL or Prodigy.

    I knew people who paid one hundred dollars for crappy bootlegged VHS copies of Pulp Fiction, The Crow, and Eraserhead.

    The last montage of the books is beautiful, though that's in large part because I'm imagining that there must be a record player underneath them. And if in fact that's the case, then I applaud you, sir.

    julian_robinson
  • awesome. amazing work.
    saskia
  • nice.
    twodee
  • amazing to how quickly our times have changed, i feel it just yesterday i was writing letters and sending cds to my friends.
    julietp
  • I liked the shots of the couches, and the Joe Strummer riff. Thanks Danny.
    canofmeatfilm
  • I don't think some things will ever disappear, I know people who will argue for days that vinyl is better than all other formats and that Super8 film gives the best looks...

    Great piece, love looking back to the past and seeing just how quickly things got changed up.
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    mattbrawn
  • Good editing, and clever camera setups. GL
    PatrickHJohnson
  • Ah, awesome film Plotnick.

    Brings back some nice memories and makes me glad to be OLD and have boxes of dusty mix tapes. Hard to believe that there are good things about the pre-internet days but your film made me wonder.

    I remember rural VT high school hell when I heard about Lou Reed and David Bowie by the one cool kid in school who didn't listen to Nightranger. People made fun of me and I had to drive to the big city to find their records but it was special and it was all mine.

    Nice work.
    EvaDeadbeat
  • Rad
    derk
  • awesome. a tribute to the obsessive!

    and yet... just to be devil's advocate - i love discovering things i wasn't looking for, that no one told me i was supposed to like, that the cool patrol never taught me was supposed to be cool. the internet, in a way, makes for effortless, accidental, and serendipitous encounters with culture.
    steev
  • i just emerged from the dusty basement, literally fighting the moisture that is eating my albums & books...

    then on that infernal web, where i am simultaneously sucking down some 1944 era Louis Prima & Spike Jones recordings...michael dean had posted this link to yer flick:

    awesome mini flick ol man... memories are made of this

    lilmikesf
  • Definitely an "ode" to the cultural-savvy GenXers. The '90s were perhaps the best decade EVER!
    wisegrrl

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