Hacker "trip tape" video from 1991 unearthed

Xeni Jardin 1:54 pm Tue Oct 3, 2006

BoingBoing reader Mike Ryan says,

Inspired by your post on recovering old analog tapes from the days of hacking, I dug up the only (old analog) copy left of the 'trip tape' that was shown at several hacker-'themed' party events in Ohio around the year 1991. The audio still holds, but some of the video got whacked out over the years, which adds more of the 'alienating' effect this video was trying to create at the time.

Reader comment: Ken Again says,

Many of the images (ie, the walking beach chair, Sorayama-type sexy robot, etc.) in the so-called hacker "trip tape" are lifted wholesale from a video I used to have called "State of the Art Computer Animation," a predecessor of the "Mind's Eye" series. Apparently Amazon has a source for some copies if anyone wants the unexpurgated version. Considering how far CGI has come in the past 2 decades it's interesting to see what holds up and what's antiquated. Link.

Tree says,

I'm not sure if the "Trip Tape uses footage from all three, but much footage is also from one or more of the "Qatsi" films by Godfrey Reggio (Phillip Glass conducts the score for each one): Naqoyqatsi, Powaqqatsi, & Koyaanisqatsi. I have them, and they're great by themselves. It was quirky seeing them "remixed".

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