https://spectavid.xyz/blog/ Writing about music video as a form — director profiles, curation notes, archive discoveries, and criticism. en-us Fri, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://spectavid.xyz/assets/og-preview.png https://spectavid.xyz/blog/ https://spectavid.xyz/blog/director-first.html https://spectavid.xyz/blog/director-first.html Mon, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Music video credits have always been an afterthought — buried in the YouTube description, absent from streaming metadata, sometimes missing entirely from commercial releases. We think that's worth fixing. https://spectavid.xyz/blog/visual-album-archive.html https://spectavid.xyz/blog/visual-album-archive.html Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The visual album section took about two years to get to a state we were happy with. Along the way we made a lot of decisions about what qualifies, how to handle edge cases, and when to split or merge director entries. https://spectavid.xyz/blog/hamill-industries.html https://spectavid.xyz/blog/hamill-industries.html Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Barcelona-based duo have been making some of the most rigorous work in the form for a decade. Almost none of it has been written about in depth. We spent a month with their catalog. https://spectavid.xyz/blog/pre-digital-archive.html https://spectavid.xyz/blog/pre-digital-archive.html Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 About 800 of the videos in our archive predate widespread digital distribution. How we found them, what quality we settled for, and what's still genuinely missing. https://spectavid.xyz/blog/year-one.html https://spectavid.xyz/blog/year-one.html Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 We started SpectraVid in February 2020 with a shared hard drive and a spreadsheet. Five years later, the archive has 8,400 videos and 3,200 members. Some things went as we expected. Most didn't.