Open Beta for Streaming Service "HOUDINI.tv" Has Arrived

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After sitting dormant for over a year, and being in development hell for even longer, HOUDINI Magazine's experimental 'streaming service' is reborn with a complete overhaul. This is the People's Tubi.

No ads, especially not the corporate ones. No accounts. No cookies. No tracking. No bullshit.

Everything is pulled from archive.org, we host nothing. This is pirate radio in the age of streaming. Being sourced from archive.org means VHS rips, tape noise, live broadcasts, esoteric flicks and kino dug deep from the crates. The texture of the medium becomes part of the service's flavor. It's also how we're able to do a no-budget streaming service. It's less Netflix and more public assess TV, and that's part of the point. The noise, the CRT effect, the fine tuning of colors, saturation, contrast, blur, these all intentionally lean into the limitations, in the way a only a project designed by the HOUDINI Collective could.

Channels currently curated by Erik Houdini, Mindape, Salty P Slug. Curation will be a community effort. We're working on a program to make submitting and curating your own channels as easy as possible. The bottleneck: Archive.org only has so much, even in terms of actual "archival" content. There's more Parenti lectures on YouTube than archive, there's a whole lot of right wing content on archive.org but less left content. That means the more contributions archive.org gets, the more we can grow, because we all know how quickly things can disappear from YouTube. This also means submitting 'original content' is in the pipeline. Archive your work, send us the links, and we'll put it on the upcoming Channel 00. This is a living project!

Just want thoughts and to share this project!

Channel Breakdown:

Darktoonz

HOUDINI Magazine approved cartoons and anime.
Notable Flick: Dragon Ball Z: Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan

HammerHEAD

Vintage Horror + Sleaze: A curated collection of cult classics, banned oddities, and forgotten nightmares. Horror movies, grindhouse, and similar sorts of works.
Notable Flick: Blade (1998)

Kaiju Krew

Super Sentai, Godzilla movies, and other monster flicks.
Notable Flick: Pulgasari (1985)

Temple of Ra

A CRT in the back of a closed arcade, playing forgotten tapes. G4 TV x 1990s MTV meets Criterion Collection
Notable Flick: Passion Against Reason: A Shmup Documentary (2025)

PARENTI

yellow walls and the florescent hum of capitalism. Situationist films, communist lectures, anarchist documentaries. We're discussing revolution in the backrooms.
Notable Flick: "Yellow Parenti" 1986 Lecture

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Writer, Artist, Activist

Louisiana born. Elder Zoomer. DSA member and founder of HOUDINI Magazine. The indie-web's most well-known political pundit. Known for coming up out of the gutter, creeping through your thought membranes, and exploding onto the scene like a landmine in the killing fields or the ocean passages that power a collapsing economy. Living in the cool zone. A collaborative mindset for creation led to what has been built. Took the name Houdini and brought it back 100 years later. Game recognizes game. It’s about a miracle escape. Build something with your hands, even if the gears of the system have left them bruised. We will build together, our solidarity allowing us to break through the pain of a system designed to break us. From this we will create a new world, a new culture, a new, just society.

In a collapsing world, kindness stands resolute, breaking through the nihilistic, death-as-worth, necropolitical landscape of the second quarter of the 21st century. Hauntological necromancer. Graphic designer. Esoteric internet celebrity. Chaos magician. Militant guerrilla marketing guru. Pulp author. Socialist. Poet. Person of Interest.

There comes a point where you just begin to find romance within the material struggle. The pain of existence becoming fuel to hoist the boulder again. And again. And again. Until collapse. Until defeat. John Henry spirit. You want me to work the hammer and sickle, yet expect that work to break me, to sublimate me to you, to obedience. But you, the capitalist, have never toiled like a worker. How can you tell me that I cannot take pride in your exploitation? In my role as a worker? You could not bear the same mule load.

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