MidTown Cleveland reschedules Cleveland Walls mural festival for August 23-28
CLEVELAND, Ohio OK, this time, it’s really going to happen.
Organizers of a large-scale, mural-painting festival across Cleveland’s MidTown district postponed the event in June and then September last year because the coronavirus pandemic made it unsafe for artists to travel to Cleveland.
But the festival, called Cleveland Walls, is now back on track and scheduled for Aug. 23-28.
Some 20 artists 10 from across the country and around the world, and 10 from Cleveland and Northeast Ohio will descend on MidTown to turn blank walls, garage doors and other surfaces into large-scale urban canvases.
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The last VCR was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape might be immortal. Today, a robust marketplace exists for it.
On Instagram, sellers tout videos for sale, like the 2003 Jerry Bruckheimer film Kangaroo Jack, a comedy involving a beauty salon owner played by Jerry O Connell and a kangaroo. Asking price, $190.
If $190 feels outrageous for a film about a kangaroo accidentally coming into money, consider the price of a limited-edition copy of the 1989 Disney film The Little Mermaid, which is listed on Etsy for $45,000.
There is, it turns out, much demand for these old VHS tapes, price tags notwithstanding and despite post-2006 advancements in technology. Driving the passion is the belief that VHS offers something that other types of media cannot.
What âOldâ Technology Do You Think Is Cool?
Why do you think there is so much interest in obsolete technologies like Polaroid instant cameras, record players, Atari game systems or VHS tapes?
Credit.Ellen Weinstein
Feb. 22, 2021
Do you think âoldâ technology is cool? Do you appreciate vinyl records, for example, or Polaroid cameras? Eight-track tapes or printed newspapers? What do you find appealing about these items that our modern world has already made â or may still make â obsolete?
For a glimpse of what teenagers are into these days, all you have to do is visit Abbot Kinney Boulevard in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. On weekend nights, the half-mile shopping drag is packed with style-conscious kids who traipse past coffee shops, ice cream parlors and boutiques, often while taking selfies.
Hannah Selinger, The New York Times
Published: 21 Feb 2021 10:08 AM BdST
Updated: 21 Feb 2021 10:08 AM BdST collection of original VHS boxes at the new Nitehawk Cinema in New York, Dec 12, 2018. The New York Times
The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital-repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape itself may be immortal. Today, a robust marketplace exists, both virtually and in real life, for this ephemera. );
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On Instagram, sellers tout videos for sale, like the 2003 Jerry Bruckheimer film “Kangaroo Jack,” a comedy involving a beauty salon owner played by Jerry O’Connell and a kangaroo. Asking price, $190. (O’Connell commented on the post from his personal account, writing, “Hold steady. Price seems fair. It is a Classic.”)