Originally published at: A collection of Laurie Anderson videos from the 80s-90s | Boing Boing
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Agreed!
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And just to be clear, her great work didn’t stop in the 90s!
For example, I love this 2015 movie:
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Ouch, Really bad digitization there. I have this tape I should probably do this in 1080p and preserve the tape better.
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Darn it. Now I’m going to have Strange Angels stuck in my head for the next week.
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Well, there went 50 minutes and I want even more!
Yeah what’s up with that? It looks like they tried to re-record it from VHS to mini-DV and then onto the computer. There are probably better ways.
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I have a setup for recovering VHS, a late model that has HDMI that digitizes the tape before it leaves the deck and I can capture it already in progressive scan 1080. It does a really decent job. I do have the original collected videos tape and I should break it out and put it up on Archive.org or such.
I may have Home of the Brave as well.
Really my deepest regret is lending my Alive From Off Center tape and never got it back.
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The last couple of albums I got by her are great… Songs from the Bardo:
And Landfall with Kronos Quartet…
And she did a Tiny Desk concert during the pandemic…
And HOLY CRAP HERE SHE IS COVERING SCOTT WALKER…
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I think I still have a copy of the Puppet Motel CD-Rom, but not sure if there’s a way to run it any more.
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I’ve hoped for so long to see footage from her United States Parts I to IV show. I was fortunate to see the show in Los Angeles, when I was around 18. It was fantastic, and she must have documented some of the performances. I think I heard or imagined that she didn’t think the quality of the footage was good enough, kind of like Pink Floyd sitting on the footage from The Wall concerts.
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Whoah! This exists!
Thanks for the find.
That uh, jerks the handle as it were.
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The link in the story seems to be broken?
But apart from that, I shall always live by her words of wisdom about Paradise.
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I was volunteering at Telluride Film Festival when they screened this film there, and one day I saw her on the street and had a whole fanboy reacc. I was too shy and awestruck to approach and talk though.
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When was it staged in Los Angeles? I would have loved to see that.
I particularly love the idea that singing along to her music on the radio would cause one to just go berserk.
There are a couple of Laurie Anderson PSA videos on YouTube. I don’t know when the were made or the context but they’re delightfully odd…
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She was great at that. And it makes a good point, though I was left thinking…
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