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Big Head Amusements Media company specializing in unique audio & video post-production services for consumer, archival, artistic, and commercial needs.

Our custom audio and video production & post-production services include:

AUDIO: analogue-to-digital transfers (audio cassette, LPs), voice & dialogue editing, sound clean-up & restoration, and mixing for film, podcasting, and streaming. VIDEO: analogue-to-digital transfers of consumer, industrial, and broadcast videotape formats; PAL-NTSC standard conversion & digitizing; traditional & experimen

tal editing; digital format rendering. SPECIALTY VIDEO SERVICES: cinematography using 1970s & 1980s B&W and colour tube & CCD cameras; footage degrading & glitching (bouncing digital footage to and from tape-based analogue formats & vintage signal processors, and vintage & glitchy video cameras) for art projects, performance & music videos, and commercial productions in need of analogue-based layers for custom visual effects. Unique gear includes both contemporary software and the use of vintage tube and CCD cameras, consumer & broadcast video processors, vintage character generators spanning the 1970s – 1990s, and an eclectic collection of test equipment, monitors (CRT oscilloscopes, waveform & vectorscopes), and audio visualizers & colorizers. For more info, please message via Facebook. Website, Blogs, and Gear Samples: www.bigheadamusements.com

Instagram & IGTV Shorts: https://www.instagram.com/markrhasan/

16/02/2026

Here's a slightly different video of Toronto's latest transit miracle-of-miracles – the , which was recently opened by the with strategically humble fanfare, and whose development-to-completion period almost reaches a human's lifespan from zygote to pimply teenager.

This short video covers arriving at Eglinton station on the Yonge / Line 1, and hopping onto the Crosstown to reach Cedarvale (formerly Eglinton West) subway station on the other side of the Line 1 U.

Impressions: being underground for this stretch, it's a fast and smooth trip. Lots of escalators to go down and up and down to travel between platforms. I've peppered the video with a few pokes, and suggestions... Lots of escalators to go down and up to travel between platforms. I've peppered the video with a few pikes, and suggestions...

Do stay to the End Credits to learn about some of the events that occurred over the past 15 years.

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07/01/2026

The first podcast interview at BHA+ for 2026 is a conversation with Canadian musician and music video director Max Farrell , who discusses the short film he crafted to support Blessings Infinity’s latest album, Season One.

Topics include the film's striking experimental visuals, the project's nearly 8 year odyssey, and crafting a limited edition.

Audio-Only Podcast: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/bigheadamusements/id/39623365

Visual Podcast with trippy visuals: https://youtu.be/bbiDEq71fik?si=WKdWvhIvl9BjewHK

Editor's Blog: https://bigheadamusements.com/wordpress/?p=3955

Coming soon: a featurette on transferring Farrell's digital film to VHS, plus the nuances of the Visual Podcast made with vintage audio, test, & video gear.

Max Farrell's Video Work: https://fakoandro.world/

Blessings Infinity
Music Video / Short Film: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPl2nNWk2of/?igsh=MjJkcnd0bmFlZ2xh
Bandcamp Album: https://blessingsinfinity.bandcamp.com/

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08/12/2025

Just a quick notice the main site - bigheadamusement.com - is currently experiencing technical difficulties. I'll update when it's back online. Thanks for your patience! --- MRH

The weather was crap, the lighting was crap, and this was shot quickly during a dinner break whilst night was coming fas...
27/11/2025

The weather was crap, the lighting was crap, and this was shot quickly during a dinner break whilst night was coming fast - a short montage of misty rainfall before the polar vortex (Brr! Boo!Brr!) arrives this weekend (or so they prophecize).

No colour enhancement - just dialing the aperture to get some colour and brightness.

And yes, I stole the title of this Insta-Helios-Quickee from that pizza ad. Apologize to Cousin Raoul.

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Note: video proper has no audio.:

Part 1.2 in this series is really a Quickee, shot during a small break, but it demonstrates how the Pentax K5 and Helios 44-2 lens can deliver decent images ...

29/10/2025

Over the past couple of years, the Helios 44 series – a 58mm lens that’s ‘a copy’ of a 1950s Carl Zeiss Biotar lens – has enjoyed a lot of popularity on YouTube, with many photographers, videographers, and cinematographers.

Available in budget and pro-level cine housing, the lens has been used in big budget productions like THE BATMAN (2022) and DUNE, PART 2 (2024) – but what about in short narrative or experimental works?

The first part of this recurring series, branded The Helios 4 Project, is divided into two parts: an intro with some background on my use of the lens with a vintage Pentax K5 DSLR in blog form at BHA+, and a short narrative, titled “FRIENDS FOREVER”: https://bigheadamusements.com/wordpress/?p=3906

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