Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary at the Museum of Arts and Design contains some exceptional re-fabrications.
“Sound Wave” by Jean Shin
Sound Wave makes me nostalgic for the days of my youth, before vinyl slipped into tragic obsolescence.
“My Back Pages” by Paul Villinsky
Sculptures like this are part of the reason I collect/save so many seemingly useless object. You never know when you can use them. View the slide show for more examples of everyday objects re-contextualized and rebuilt.
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5 responses to “Second Lives”
those are awesome! though I don’t know about tragic obsolescence, vinyl appears to be alive and well for all the audiophiles out there, ive been wanting to pick up a record player for years. Metallica has been rereleasing all the old records on vinyl and it seems somehow wrong that i dont have em 😉
Thanks for popping in on my blog. I am very happy you enjoyed the Halloween MP3s.
This particular piece is very cool. I still have my old vinyl – and bought new vinyl 2 weeks ago – so it;s not dead yet. In fact – it’s making a bit of a comeback. You might be interested to check out the polyvinyl website for the band Of Montreal. Their new release had a double vinyl and each included some sort of hand made or small production item. I believe vinyl still thrives in the U.K. as well. Anyway thanks again and pop in any time.
Oh I am sorry – I forgot my link if you want to read about Of Montreal or share the link with friends for Halloween music – or to enter the Lou Reed Berlin DVD J Shnaebel fil.http://thisismyhappening.blogspot.com/
Gonna be in NY with some time to kill next week. Looks like I’m stopping by mad.
After Kyle’s weekly radio show on WHSC, there is a show called “This is Vinyl Tap that plays nothing but vinyl records. Its pretty cool…..