Jurassic World Rebirth Popcorn Bucket

Did I purchase the giant dinosaur footprint popcorn bucket on the opening day of Jurassic World Rebirth? Yes. Did I then keep the oversized plastic footprint in my car for a week and take random pictures of it around town to justify the expense? Obviously.

Wooden Movie Director Playset

I want to say it was a worthy investment, but I can't see a thing through this. Consider this my last ever purchase from Hudson's Bay Company - a wooden movie director playset. 

OK, it's actually kind of great.

Hoverboard From Back to the Future 2

What collection and vintage media wall would be complete without the addition of some choice "2015 future tech" from the eighties? That's right, this guy finally snagged a hoverboard from Back to the Future 2 thanks to my friends trip to the Calgary Comic Expo. Running errands is going to be so much faster when I'm being chased down now.

VHS / Video Store Stickers

I don't quite know why collecting VHS tapes is tickling my brain at the moment, but this hobby is now costing me upwards of $8 a month lol. The video store aesthetic is fully in the sweet spot of being gone just long enough to feel special, but still ordinary enough to be dirt cheap. Anyway, here are some of my video store VHS stickers from my latest haul.

Hitachi VM-2000A VHS Movie Camera

I just added some serious Cold War era tech to my arsenal of movie-making equipment with this vintage Hitachi VM-2000A VHS movie camera. Released the same year as Back to the Future and weighing as much as a Buick, this Hitachi camcorder comes with state of the art auto-focus technology and VCR compatibility.

I've also been adding unopened brands of blank VHS tapes to my collection during my province-wide thrift hunts, which might further prove that this "vintage media wall" I've been building really is (at least in part) just a big art installation. Do you remember ever seeing these giant VHS cameras in the wild? This one still had a tape with a little league game from 1991 in it.

1960s Kodak Brownie Camera

I've never been much of a show off my new equipment kind of photographer. I've always been more of a show off my new, old equipment kind of photographer. I picked up this early 1960s Kodak Brownie today. Complete with original box and unused flashbulbs, I'm a real sucker for that vintage Kodak branding. She's a real beauty!