At one point I swung the camera toward the TV and noticed that I got these scan lines and other distortions. “Oh that’s kind of interesting,” I thought. “What else can I do here?” I set the camera on a tripod and zoomed in on the TV screen, cropping everything else out. Then I took the tape I’d been working with all day and played it in my VCR while adjusting the brightness, color, and hue. Inspired by my recent discovery of Bill Viola, I tried slowing things way down using the frame-by-frame feature on the VCR. Suddenly, a very small motion was turned into a 20 minute epic. But that was a little too slow and the frame-by-frame had an unpleasant pulse to it. To fix it I took my new tape, put it in the deck, and played it back in fast-forward.