Sonic Fabric Sings Its Own Eco-Friendly Praises
Sonic Fabric, woven from a 50/50 blend of recycled cassette tape and cotton, can actually be played. Just run a tape head over the fabric. It sings a different tune than what was originally recorded on the tape, however, sounding more like scratching a record or radio static.
But as Sonic Fabric’s creator Alyce Santoro explains, [...]
Serve Your Drinks on Rock Albums
Like your drinks served on the rocks? How about on rock albums? Husband and wife team INOUDID’s Attic are purging their old record collection by repurposing album covers into coasters and LPs into bowls. Before you vinyl fanatics start having panic attacks, let me reassure you that I am sympathetic to your cause (see related [...]
Toy Instruments Reincarnated as Giraffes and Cowboys and Cats (Oh My!)
Artist Cat Bishop has set quite the goal for herself: to create 1,000 pieces of what she terms “assemblage art.” Cat scours flea markets and thrift stores for materials, which range from kitchenware to cameras to clocks. Characters – human, animal, and even robot – emerge from cleverly mixing and matching objects.
From an interview with [...]
Piano Hair Sticks & More
If you’ve ever taken a peek inside a piano, you were no doubt impressed by how complicated an instrument it is. All those strings and tuning pins and dampers and hammers… In fact, your average piano has over 10,000 moving parts. No wonder these things are so big!
When properly maintained, pianos can last decades. But [...]
Pop Rock & Roll Earrings
I am having a hard time believing that that these Pop Rock & Roll Earrings by designer Millie Hilgert are made from recycled records and not from those tasty lollipops you got at the bank as a kid.
However she achieves their candylicious color and shine, you gotta admit these earrings are pretty darn cute. And [...]
Recycled Cassette Portraits
Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is. Self-taught artist iri5 has ripped out the innards of cassettes and molded them into the likenesses of musicians. The original cassettes remain intact, serving as vessels not unlike Aladdin’s magic lamp.
Robert Smith, pictured here, is joined by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and others in a [...]
Wear Your Favorite Artist On Your Wrist
It happens. Guitar strings break. Often. Which is why bands should always bring an extra guitar on the road, or at the very least have some interesting banter prepared, in case they need to re-string their instrument in the middle of a show. Not that I have ever witnessed this before or anything…
Anyway, Wear Your [...]
A New Spin on Picture Frames
If you’re like me, you probably have lots of bits and pieces of music memorabilia littering your drawers and shelves. Why not commemorate that life-changing concert experience by turning one of those souvenirs into art?
This 6.75″ square frame, made from recycled LPs, has a 5″ x 5″ opening. It’s the perfect size for ticket stubs, [...]
