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Welcome to UP ALL NIGHT, a hub for weird old media and the art that I make.
This site has been running since 2017 as an ongoing archive of lost media, obscure artifacts, and creative projects. It’s a blend of preservation, storytelling, and late-night nostalgia. It's a place for anyone who’s ever fallen down a strange rabbit hole on the old web and didn’t want to come back up.
// How It Started
In 2016, I started a site called Retro Game Dad, a small corner of the internet dedicated to collecting oddball media related to classic video games. It began as a blog and grew into a pretty active social media project. Over time, chasing likes in the hellscape of social media left me burned out. The following year, I built UP ALL NIGHT on Neocities as a quieter, weirder refuge.
This site quickly expanded beyond video games. It became a place to collect all sorts of forgotten or unsettling media — anything that could capture the feeling of staying up too late, alone, lost in static, VHS hum, or faint radio noise. That late-night, half-dreaming mood became the core of everything that followed.
// The Projects
In 2018, I started making vaporwave and dark ambient music — built from fragments of commercials, film audio, and any weird artifact I could find. I really like how prominent storytelling through music is within the vaporwave genre, so it is has been a primary outlet for me for many years.
In 2021, I recovered hours of old films my friends and I made two decades ago. Watching them again, I wondered what to do with all that footage. The result was an anthology film titled Phico — a time capsule of those years, assembled from cracked VHS tapes and buried memories.
Today, UP ALL NIGHT continues as both archive and outlet — a place to gather the strange, celebrate the forgotten, and keep experimenting with sound, image, and story. The goal is always the same: to evoke that feeling of being up late at night, with nothing but the glow of a screen for company. Some of the stuff here is real, other things are fiction. Part of the fun is trying to discern which is which.
// Explore the Site
- The Video Store [Watch vintage training videos, infomercials, and lost broadcasts]
- The Tape Deck [Listen to recovered audio, hotline calls, and radio recordings]
- The File Cabinet [Read case files, documents, and research on The Lorain Project]
