Space Scapes
HOT. STEREO. SOUND!
Breathtaking footage gleaned from official NASA and JPL film archives places you in the cockpit; enhanced by the award winning music of Jan Hammer.
Experience the power of shuttle launches, bouncing moon walks and weightless space ballet like you've never seen before! This visual treat has been set to the music of world renowned producer, arranger and keyboardist Jan Hammer. Hammer changed television forever with his unique com- positions for the "Miami Vice" television series. His quintuple platinum selling sound track album was number one on the charts for months.
Sit back; relax to it, learn from it, laugh with it...A program you'll want to watch and listen to over and over...
One of the most asked questions by my readers is whether or not the perfect tape exists. I don’t have a defined criteria for the footage I archive and share here, so I’m not sure what exact qualities would have to be present in a tape to make it “perfect” but so far, this is the absolute pinnacle of my collection.
For me, the kinds of tapes I look for are what many would consider mundane. Sleepycore is a somewhat new genre of content that many people (myself included) tend to enjoy. Infomercials, 1990s Nat Geo, home movies — these are examples of media that was common to watch and enjoy just over a decade ago, but as time marched on, many of these options for entertainment got lost.
This tape hits all the right receptors in my brain. An absolute ripper of a score by Jan Hammer (composer for the 1980s crime drama Miami Vice), tons of footage from the NASA and JPL archives, including early Shuttle Era montages, and it’s a decent length at 30 minutes.
Truth be told, I’ve been holding onto this tape for several months because I’ve been putting it on to watch pretty often myself. I’ve taken it to friends houses to put on their projector. I’ve ripped the soundtrack to a .wav file so I could send it to my music buddies. I love everything about this tape.
In the past 4 years, I’ve collected close to 500 tapes specifically for archiving, a few of which ended up not being interesting enough to share, and many (so many) are sitting in my backlog. But as I inch closer to 300 tapes uploaded on Archive.org, I am ecstatic to report that the best is still out there. I just picked up Space Scapes in September of last year. It’s the most “perfect” tape I’ve found so far, but every few outings to a thrift store or the McKay’s free bin or a good yard sale, or a friend texts me to tell me they found something for me, I’m reminded that there’s still so many cool things out there for me to find and share and I want to watch them all!
Well, that’s it for this week! I hope you enjoyed Space Scapes! If you’re looking for more, please check out my page on Archive.org for the full list of digitized media. If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message right here or drop a comment below. If you haven’t already, please check out the one of my previous posts below, or all of my other previous posts here. Thanks so much for checking out this week’s edition of Diptych!
See you soon!
—Forrest
Two Tapes and a Tape: Diptych #23
This Week Has No Theme Well, at least no obvious theme. A couple weeks ago, I was at a thrift store in Johnson City, Tennessee and I came across all three of the pieces of media I have for you today stacked on top of each other. Sometimes I try to give these posts an arch or a motive as to why I would group them together, but this week I let fate decide …
The Final Frontier
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Beaver Moon //Lunar Eclipse 2021
I don’t have too much to say really, other than I almost decided at near midnight not to go out and enjoy the eclipse, but to stay inside where it was warm and get a good nights rest. I didn’t know what to expect with a lunar eclipse, and in my head, I thought maybe it would just look as though the moon was going through it’s normal waxing / waning phas…
I can't wait to watch this tonight!