Ersinhan Ersin makes art using discarded mechanisms from cassette tapes (another via Sally Jacobs)
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Mourning ye olde mixtape? ReadyMade has a slide show of some cute cassette-tape inspired home decorations.
ReadyMade: Day of the Dead
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3 Cassette Tapes: Sucky music format, formidable iconography.
I’ve written quite a bit here about cassette tape worship. In the last decade, cassettes have gone from viable music formats to objects imbued with nostalgia. We melt them and extract their guts in the name of art; we wax poetic about them in books; we buckle our belts with them and honor them on t-shirts or in the form of jewelry. In this article, the NYT’s Rob Walker marvels at this shift.
Ten or twenty years ago, decorating clothing or countertops with nods to cassette tapes would’ve seemed totally bizarre-o. However, I don’t think it would’ve been weird to see wallpaper with a gramophone motif or a belt-buckle made to look like an LP. This begs the question: At one point will t-shirts across Williamsburg be emblazoned with artist renderings of iPads? And when will teenagers start wearing mini iPod classic charms on their necks?
Hmmm…
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Check out this highly scientific test pitting the iPod vs. The Cassette. They’ve done it all: the water test, the drop test, the scratch test. They’ve even run the financials. I’m not going to say which one wins. I’ll just tell you that I believe in anything that can be fixed with a pencil.
(Daniel Turek via CassetteTapes.net)
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In recent talks I’ve given, I’ve mentioned quite a few times how it seems to me that cassette tapes are like the new Che Guevera—no t-shirt is complete until it is emblazoned with either:
a) the iconic image of a piece of obsolete plastic technology
or
b) one of the greatest murderers of all time.
Case in point.
(via Cool Material)
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I recall when people lived in fear of having their car cassette players stolen. How far we’ve come!
(Via Ted Ledbetter via Walyou)
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Yet another product that LOOKS like a tape and plays MUSIC but ISN’T a tape! So tricky.
Strapya World : Music Card MP3 Player (Casette Tape)
TATTOOS OF OBSOLETE OBJECTS: Vol. III, Is. 8
Blink 182’s Travis Barker shows off his boom box tattoo. Also, he is showing his cassette tape belt buckle. I’m telling you: tapes are turning into the modern day paisley. (via hotpotofcoffee)
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I’m starting to think that “cassette tape” is the new “hound’s tooth.” (via samcase)
