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 film venue in Rotterdam where it's located, please snap a pic of it.
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 space capsules by nature lend themselves perfectly to his chosen medium. Amazing work. I want that Gemini capsule.
Amazing - what do you suppose is recorded on those ridiculously large cassette tapes? Quick, someone grab the elephant-sized tape player out of the jumbo jet storage facility and we can re-live the oldies.
Truly amazing work. What does he do with them after creating them? I assume they are not decorating the walls of his ginormous home? I agree, Jesus - I would love one of these, too.
@bosskev: And why do most of the photos I submit under this new, screwed up photo submission system get...well...screwed up? Once again, the picture is chopped up with random, stupid cropping (and to see the whole pic, you have to click on it and load it separately).
We are how many weeks into the new commenting system and this is still not working? Regardless, could we at least get back the ability to put our photos inline via HTML tags as we used to be able to do?
@bosskev: I'm going to give a hearty "Seconded!" to the request for in-line HTML tags for images. Can't be the lack of HTML in the system, because you can still do it with links, so what gives? Don't crop my photos, Gizmodo-everybody knows that all the funny stuff is on the edges!
@Lupus_Yonderboy: What do you mean? Nothing funny or important is ever at the edges, that's crazy talk. I mean, just look at this picture of the "space baby" from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
@@heyart: Who said anything about stretching comments boxes? How about just allowing the full photo to appear as-is, no dumbo-cropping, fitting it within the allotted space?
I bet you are one of those people who, when they see a widescreen movie presented uncropped on a standard TV, thinks the black bars mean something is wrong with the set.
Sheesh - that's more cheap-generic than the crappy Memorex tapes they had at the grocery store.
Gimme a Maxell High Bias Metal 60-Minute tape. I say 60-Minute because the 90-Minute was a little thinner so that it was more prone to getting eaten by the Walkman.
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 their musical tastes, but its a thoughtful, personal gift. Very romantic.
@Kaiser-Machead: "Nothing wrong with emailing a small mix of tracks. Heck, I've done it myself." As have I. However, the women I email never seem to get back to me. I don't understand why?
Here is just a few of the songs that I email -
1. Blondie "One Way or Another"
"One way or another, I’m gonna find ya’, I’m gonna get ya’, get ya’, get ya’, get ya’" 2. Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up" 3. Clay Aiken "Invisible"
"If I was invisible. Then I could just watch you in your room. If I was invincible. I’d make you mine tonight. 4.The Police "Every Breath You Take"
Every move you make
Every step you take
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you...
@Kaiser-Machead: I cant speak for all of woman kind, but the personal gifts are the best. A guy bought me software (that he knew I wanted) for Valentines Day one time and its still the most memorable present ever!
@Curves: To this day, my wife maintains that the hand blender I got her for her birthday one year was one of the best gifts ever. I know...I KNOW. Sorry, ladies - I'm taken.
(In my defense, though, I do usually try to go a LITTLE more romantical than that...)
11/18/09
You left out the best one.
11/18/09
Wood cuts are gaps in wood made with a saw. Woodcuts are engravings. /pedant
P.S.
Those art works are frikkin' awesome.
11/18/09
Or if anyone is near the WORM alternative music and film venue in Rotterdam where it's located, please snap a pic of it.
11/18/09
11/18/09
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 like that guy with the 3D street paintings!
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Only this one is even harder to achieve. I mean, I looked at all pictures and still couldn't tell any of them from 3D...
11/18/09
I think a bas-relief is actually three dimensional, but has a very shallow depth of field.
So they are 3d but just barely?
If somebody has a better explanation, please do tell.
11/18/09
Trompe l'oeil mosaics
11/18/09
I was really trying to figure out how those things were three dimensional.
So, they are not bas-reliefs.
#speakup
11/18/09
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11/18/09
Is the foremost one the one he is working on? How is it sitting like that?
11/18/09
Truly amazing work. What does he do with them after creating them? I assume they are not decorating the walls of his ginormous home? I agree, Jesus - I would love one of these, too.
07/27/09
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.
07/27/09
We are how many weeks into the new commenting system and this is still not working? Regardless, could we at least get back the ability to put our photos inline via HTML tags as we used to be able to do?
07/27/09
07/27/09
@Lupus_Yonderboy: What do you mean? Nothing funny or important is ever at the edges, that's crazy talk. I mean, just look at this picture of the "space baby" from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Oh. Wait. What space baby?
*grrr grumble grumble*
07/27/09
@bosskev: No problem, here's a different pic of the space baby, with its source clearly identified by the headline above and title/caption below.
Oh. Wait again. What headline and title/caption?
07/27/09
@bosskev:
07/27/09
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07/28/09
I bet you are one of those people who, when they see a widescreen movie presented uncropped on a standard TV, thinks the black bars mean something is wrong with the set.
07/27/09
Sheesh - that's more cheap-generic than the crappy Memorex tapes they had at the grocery store.
Gimme a Maxell High Bias Metal 60-Minute tape. I say 60-Minute because the 90-Minute was a little thinner so that it was more prone to getting eaten by the Walkman.
07/27/09
07/27/09
07/27/09
Here is just a few of the songs that I email -
1. Blondie "One Way or Another"
"One way or another, I’m gonna find ya’, I’m gonna get ya’, get ya’, get ya’, get ya’"
2. Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up"
3. Clay Aiken "Invisible"
"If I was invisible. Then I could just watch you in your room. If I was invincible. I’d make you mine tonight.
4.The Police "Every Breath You Take"
Every move you make
Every step you take
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you...
07/27/09
07/27/09
(In my defense, though, I do usually try to go a LITTLE more romantical than that...)
07/27/09
Or a long time anyway.
05/02/09
It was mainly used to play an Elton John 8-Track, though.
04/21/09
04/20/09
Feel of the cardboard sleeve of a
Mediocre 1986 VHS tape.
Maybe it's the way the edges and corners fray,
Exposing their white innards, or
The way the graphic flecks away.
I remember countless viewings of
Krull. They all recall afternoons spent
Wasting quarters at the local pizzeria.
Playing the stand-up video game.
DVDs in their perfect cases
So neatly lined up like
So many toy soldiers lack that
Near human-feeling of imperfect analog.
The mortality of a medium that breaks down.