“All that we see in this world is based on someone’s ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream.”

Log Lady

Editing is all about creating meaning from the combination and juxtaposition of different things. Re-editing other peoples’ work and making something new out of something old is what these mixtapes are all about. Let’s deconstruct this intricate web of 80s and 90s television, movies and training videos:

A training video that teaches women how to get their husbands onboard with them selling makeup as an Avon-eque “consultant”.

The lead story during the nightly news: violence in video games leading to real-life violence.

Yes, that’s also the plot of Brainscan. But this is a little different.

And so is this. The TV show following Alex Murphy as a cop in Old Detroit who definitely was not killed.

While Charles Bronson kills everyone in another TV show that could have been.

Jeff Conaway from TV’s Taxi learns how to use a computer with Video Professor.

Zig Zag, a kids show made in Vancouver, didn’t need much editing from me. It’s just that bizarre on its own. Yes, that’s Norm Grohmann’s listless face.

If you don’t already feel a little high from everything so far, Travis from Days of The New would definitely share.

If that makes any sense.

Well, it’ll all make sense by the end. Maybe.