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more about #tapes more comments → twoeightnine: You left out the best one. more » Blackie: That is damned impressive. Talk about thinking outside the box... Hell, he cuts the box up and makes other things out of it. His grasp on perspectiv... more » jeffk: Wood scraps. Wood cuts are gaps in wood made with a saw. Woodcuts are engravings. /pedant P.S. Those art works are frikkin' awesome. more » Digo: Hey Jesus, can we pretty please get a pic of the cassette tapes one from the non-mindf@$% angle? Or if anyone is near the WORM alternative music and f... more » Segador: I'm an absolute fanatic for anything having to do with the early space program, so this guy gets a huge thumbs-up. What's great about it is that the s... more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Mindfcked! I mean, I still don't get it. Are those 2D representations made with scraps of doors to look like they are 3D? Very impressive! It's just... more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: How are they not painted? Using wood that is painted still is painted wood. more » nutbastard: that's a, uh.... that's a lot of spare time there buddy. more » tande04: I still don't really understand whats going on in the first picture. Is the foremost one the one he is working on? How is it sitting like that? more » Monty: Amazing - what do you suppose is recorded on those ridiculously large cassette tapes? Quick, someone grab the elephant-sized tape player out of the j... more » Courteous_Gentleman Is Reaching for a Star: What a relief! more » bosskev: For a better trompe l'oeil styling, they need to add a handle/neckstrap. I mean, every cassette tape I've ever had eventually looked like this. more » OMG! Ponies!: What cheap-ass ghetto bobo brand tape is that?! Sheesh - that's more cheap-generic than the crappy Memorex tapes they had at the grocery store. G... more » Curves: I used to love those mix tapes from guys. I still do, but its now an MP3 they e mail me or a CD they burn for me. It shows a lot about not only thei... more » mind in rewind: I used to love my 2XL. It was mainly used to play an Elton John 8-Track, though. more » -
#retromodo
This Is Not a Photoshop
This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with this. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant tapes. They are not even painted. They are bas-relief mosaics made with old wood cuts. There are more: More » -
#tapes
Wear Your Heart on Your iPhone Mixtape Sleeve
Remember when love was simple and relationships were cheap? Now, to give a girl a mixtape, you've gotta buy an iPhone, 2-year AT&T subscription and this $30 case—plus like $12.99 in Journey MP3s. [Agent 18 via ChipChick via CraziestGadgets] -
#retromodo
Vintage 2-XL Robot Uses 8-Track Tapes, Not as Scary as Teddy Ruxpin
Released in 1978, the 2-XL educational robot was before my time, but it wouldn't have haunted my nightmares like Teddy Ruxpin did. At least this robot had the decency to look like a damn robot. More » -
#robots
TapeScape 'Bot Turns Old Boombox Into Glitch Music Automaton
Using little else than the parts inside an old GE boombox, Michael Colombo made TapeScape, a robot that front-mounts the jambox's tape head and uses it to follow strips of cassette tapes on the ground. More » -
#history
VHS Cover Wall Is 3600-Strong, May or May Not Have A Tanning Salon Out Back
Our children may never get to experience the revelatory joy of wandering through the miles of barely organized VHS shelves of a sleepy local video store, but at least they'll have this. [3600 via Metafilter] -
#listeningtest
How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we've been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we've done it to date: More » -
#vhs
The Last Major VHS Retailer Abandons the Format
While we know that media formats will come and go (be they physical or purely digital), the death of VHS is one of particular weight. Players have died, now tapes have, too. -
