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  • September 6, 2011 11:19 am

    REC Everything


    I went on vacation with my family recently (Mexico), and shared a camera with my father. This brought back a flood of memories of a syndrome from my childhood. It’s called DNVS, and it’s as contagious as it is unforgiving.

    Depending on when you grew up, you may or may not be familiar with “Dad’s New Video (Camera) Syndrome.” DNVS is incurable (except by time) and can be exhausting for all involved. Its spread to epidemic levels in the 90s was directly related to the falling prices in video recording technology, and resulted in millions of hours of historically critical footage of babies eating baby food, and your brother taking his first swim in the new avocado-colored kiddie pool.

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