Category Archives: Culture
Cassette (skateboard) Deck
Not much to say on this one.
Except maybe, what a bloody stupid idea.
1994 too. Why would anybody be spending any money on registering this patent?
Baffling.
from: www.denverskatepark.com/patents.html
thanks!
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Transformer Cassette Tapes
Awesome reference!
From www.cobraislandtoys.com/tf/identify/cassettes/cassettes.html
Great work guys! Yo!
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Cassette tapes – more than meets the eye.
I never had this in Transformer collection when I was, but I think there was a kid at school that had the version of Soundwave that actually played cassette tapes . . . or maybe I just dreamt it . . . ?
Here’s a new version, that comes with a slot for an SD card, [...]
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Cassette decks and performance art
Ferric-oxide Archaeology
www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/articles/Ferric-oxide.html
“A survey of audio cassette player manipulation techniques in live performance, 1977- 91″
An excellent run-down of some cassette player manipulation by Melbourne performers of experimental music.
Apparently the decade 1975-85, were the golden years
There’s some great examples of “hardware-hacking”, as we’d call it these days. But this one’s my favourite:
“”Our Electronic Heritage” [...]
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Cassettes are dead? Tape skull . . .
Skulls are cool. Cassettes are . . . cool?
photo from: www.flickr.com/photos/deadhorse/462921315/
The piece is by Brian Dettmer . . .
Brian Dettmer (born 1974) is an American contemporary artist. He is noted for his alteration of preexisting media — such as old books, maps, record albums, and cassette tapes — to create new, transformed works of visual [...]
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Cassette tape iPod cases . . .
from : www.45ipodcases.com/nano/index.php
via : www.geekalerts.com/ipod-cassette-tape-cases/
They’re selling them. Buy one. Why not?
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Cassette tape prints
Limited edition screen prints of an unrolled cassette tape . . . well, whatever takes your fancy . .
The site says . . .
“Limited edition of 100 gold silk-screen prints.
Each one is signed and numbered.
Hand printed by K2 Screen on 240gsm Black Plike supplied by GFSmith, size 24×84.1cm”
get it at : http://www.madebysawdust.co.uk/shop/
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A Walkman collection
Take a look at Craig Crane’s collection of Walkmans . . .
http://craigcrane.co.uk/walkman/
yo, let me know if your collection is bigger!
Tags: walkman, collection, collector
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Real recognise reel – Part 2
Dang!
Doesn’t it suck when you start something, then discover someone else has already done it!?
“I am using images posted to that site and others gathered online, to make observations how people interact with the media format known as compact cassettes (pre-recorded, re-recorded, and mix tapes).”
http://mycassettes.blogspot.com/
Not really – I’ll just be contributing to the greater discourse [...]
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Cassette tape badges