Pop music videos are all about image: the clothes, the hair, the cleavage and crotch shots. But in a place like good ol' Denton, Texas, where local "rock stars" taking a stroll with their kid or grabbing coffee at the Jupiter House is commonplace, their accessibility awards them the freedom to rebuke the image-driven template of the music video and focus solely on it as an art form.

Julie McKendrick, of Wolfe-Stone Video Productions, originally had the idea to show a bunch of vintage MTV music videos at Rubber Gloves. But as copyright issues came into play, the focus quickly veered in another direction, with local musicians and video producers in mind. Paul Baker, who originally got involved because he had the proper equipment to view the visual feats, also wanted the event to promote discussion over the art of the music video.

Using dentonrockcity.com, a message 'bored' for musicians and music lovers, Baker sought after others who were interested in having their un-copy written materials shown at the event. With an outrageous response, Baker found plenty of material to add to the work he had already planned to show. Corn Mo, Black Lodge, Sub Oslo, The Gloomadeers and Crucifix Trio videos are slated. Others are in the works, including a Duran Duran video that Evan Flournoy, also of Wolfe-Stone, might show simply for viewing pleasure.

A few of the videos being shown were taken during a live show with multiple cameras, and then edited afterward, whereas others are in traditional music video format and the rest, less complex.

"Some of them are going to be actual produced videos. Evan Flournoy is going to have a Gloomadeers video that he shot on 16 mm. And the Sub Oslo one I made was produced/edited on a computer. But most of them will be camcorder type things," Baker said.

"Mark Mars is going to have a couple things, and one of them is a multi-camera shoot at a live show and the other is produced without any band members in it, just imagery." Mark Mars, who moved from Los Angeles to Denton, gained notoriety as a writer for MTV's now defunct sci-fi animated series, Aeon Flux.

Doors open at 9 tonight at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio and donations will be accepted to help Baker maintain his projector and other equipment.

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