Reely Interesting | Grinder-Man - G-VTR01 (1998 High Quality 60FPS VHS Video Performance Art & Music Collection) @ReelyInteresting | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
This is Grinder-Man's "G-VTR01" (SRVM-5618), the first and only video release by the group. It was released only on VHS.
Grinder-Man is a Japanese performance art group lead by Hitoshi Taguchi. Originally known for their eye-catching performances with portable angle grinders, the group has a truly diverse portfolio and wide range of works on top of their "grinder" origins. It is difficult to categorize them as they go "far beyond the boundaries of art" (per their website).
This release appears to be one of the earliest recordings of the Grinder-Man group, which, at this time, appeared to be operating as a quartet consisting of:
- Hitoshi Taguchi (田口仁史)
- Tomoki Ohshita (大下智樹)
- Manabu Hirayama (平山学)
- Jun Yamamura (山村循)
The video is a collection of their performances. It contains one of their famous grinder performances, along with a couple of "Go Head" box-head segments and a few additional unique bits. All performances are to exclusive songs written by Grinder-Man themselves.
I hope that this video puts some "spark" into your day!
Fun fact 1: Grinder-Man appears to be closely associated with Maywa Denki, creators of the Otamatone. They made an appearance in the Maywa Denki video, "Maywa Denki Pictorial 3," released on VHS and LaserDisc.
Fun fact 2: Grinder-Man also made live appearances with Yasutaka-Nakata-produced shibuya-kei-turned-electro group, capsule, in 2010 and 2011.
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Performances:
Theme of GRINDER MAN
Mother Voice
Go Head
Go Head Parallel
Rightly Light
G-Tank
NOTE: I don't believe that the chapters are linear. Therefore, I have not added time-stamps to the above list of performances.
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This was played back using a restored Victor HR-W1 W-VHS player.
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(Not sponsored) As previously mentioned, Grinder-Man is still operating, albeit as a duo (with choreographer, Makiko Izu). They still perform quite often in Japan and post videos online. Their most recent efforts infuse performance art with augmented reality (AR).
If you'd like to support them, follow their YouTube:
youtube.com/c/GRINDERMANIA
...say "hello" on their website here:
grinder-man.com/en/about
...or follow them on Facebook here:
facebook.com/GRINDERMAN.page
If you want to follow me for updates or want to help me afford enough angle grinders to attach to all my joints, please click the link below:
https://linktr.ee/OpWorkshop
This is Grinder-Man's "G-VTR01" (SRVM-5618), the first and only video release by the group. It was released only on VHS.
Grinder-Man is a Japanese performance art group lead by Hitoshi Taguchi. Originally known for their eye-catching performances with portable angle grinders, the group has a truly diverse portfolio and wide range of works on top of their "grinder" origins. It is difficult to categorize them as they go "far beyond the boundaries of art" (per their website).
This release appears to be one of the earliest recordings of the Grinder-Man group, which, at this time, appeared to be operating as a quartet consisting of:
- Hitoshi Taguchi (田口仁史)
- Tomoki Ohshita (大下智樹)
- Manabu Hirayama (平山学)
- Jun Yamamura (山村循)
The video is a collection of their performances. It contains one of their famous grinder performances, along with a couple of "Go Head" box-head segments and a few additional unique bits. All performances are to exclusive songs written by Grinder-Man themselves.
I hope that this video puts some "spark" into your day!
Fun fact 1: Grinder-Man appears to be closely associated with Maywa Denki, creators of the Otamatone. They made an appearance in the Maywa Denki video, "Maywa Denki Pictorial 3," released on VHS and LaserDisc.
Fun fact 2: Grinder-Man also made live appearances with Yasutaka-Nakata-produced shibuya-kei-turned-electro group, capsule, in 2010 and 2011.
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Performances:
Theme of GRINDER MAN
Mother Voice
Go Head
Go Head Parallel
Rightly Light
G-Tank
NOTE: I don't believe that the chapters are linear. Therefore, I have not added time-stamps to the above list of performances.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This was played back using a restored Victor HR-W1 W-VHS player.
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(Not sponsored) As previously mentioned, Grinder-Man is still operating, albeit as a duo (with choreographer, Makiko Izu). They still perform quite often in Japan and post videos online. Their most recent efforts infuse performance art with augmented reality (AR).
If you'd like to support them, follow their YouTube:
youtube.com/c/GRINDERMANIA
...say "hello" on their website here:
grinder-man.com/en/about
...or follow them on Facebook here:
facebook.com/GRINDERMAN.page
If you want to follow me for updates or want to help me afford enough angle grinders to attach to all my joints, please click the link below:
https://linktr.ee/OpWorkshop
![1998 Suburban Chicago Commercials [Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, B. Sanfield] (JVC D-9 Master Tape)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zWF7S5uyJow/hqdefault.jpg "1998 Suburban Chicago Commercials [Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, B. Sanfield] (JVC D-9 Master Tape)
This is a collection of commercials for Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, & B. Sanfield intended for broadcast in the Rockford, Illinois, USA market. This footage comes from the original digital master tapes.
Not too much is known about the commercials and if any were aired. These were recorded between 1998 & 1999 for the aforementioned stores, some of which were chain retailers. As a result, a lot of the commercials appear to have used generic (analog-sourced) commercial footage (such as a segment with B.B. King) with regional information overlaid on top. Since analog broadcasting was quite low-resolution and noisy, it is almost assured that a consumer wouldnt notice the, perhaps, stark contrast between the digital & analog-sourced footage. Can you tell the difference?
In addition, some of these segments appear to simply be video-less radio bumpers.
D-9, also known as Digital-S, was JVC Victors attempt to create a competing, comparable format to Sonys Digital Betacam. The tape format uses DV compression (like the common miniDV tape), but at twice the bitrate (50 Mbps) for extremely high fidelity picture reproduction and very low generational losses. Just like how Sony used Betamax-sized tape for Digital Betacam, this tape format used tapes extremely similar to VHS in size and shape, hence the Digital-S (like S-VHS) name! In fact, the tapes are identical to and interchangeable with the rare W-VHS analog HD tape format (but the recording formats are obviously quite different)!
Enjoy these rare commercials in unusually high quality from an era gone by!
Sad fact: This tape is cursed! While other branches may exist for the major retailers, not a single Rockford, IL branch or business mentioned in these recordings exists today. That even includes the production house!
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This D-9 recording was played back using a JVC BR-D85U D-9 deck.
This is a REELY EXCLUSIVE upload! This footage is from the only known master recording.
Note: The video was edited to eliminate unnecessary color bars, countdowns, and long-spaces between segments. This recording would have otherwise been 60 minutes long!
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