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Paintings Or Spinning Records?

Now that we all download or stream, don’t you miss record (or CD) labels and sleeves? Sure, you can turn the visualiser on on iTunes or *cough* WinAmp, but it’s no match for trancing out to the spinning label of a record.

June 15, 2011
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Celebrities (And Chewbacca) Fondling Their Vinyl Collection

What do Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn have in common, besides being beautiful and dead? They apparently loved their vinyl records, as captured in this wonderfully nostalgic gallery. Also, there’s a photo of Chewbacca sexy-relaxing (with records!).

September 9, 2010

The World As Seen By A Record

This long-exposure image was made by placing a pinhole camera in the centre of a record. It shows that you only need simple ideas and simple tools to create beautiful photography. [Kateoplis via Twitter - Thanks Life, Panoramic!]

August 28, 2010

Ashes To Vinyl: Because You Always Wanted To Be In Guns N’ Roses

I thought I fancied the idea of turning myself into a diamond once I die, but actually, having my cremated ashes turned into a vinyl record of my favourite album is much more my style.

July 30, 2010

How To Pirate Vinyl Records

Just because vinyl records aren’t digital, it doesn’t mean you can’t pirate them. All you need is a wood box, glass, window cement, silicone mixture, liquid plastic and a drill press. Hey, I didn’t say it was going to be easy.

March 3, 2010

What Is This?

So what on earth is this? Some dried-up riverbed somewhere? A black and white shot from the Mars Rover? The real answer might leave you spinning.

February 9, 2010

The RFID Record Player Is A Real World Cover Flow

I like this idea by Matt Brown: He tags 45rpm vinyl records with RFID stickers to play songs in a turntable that doesn’t turn at all.

February 7, 2010

Record Your Own Records With Gakken’s Gramophone Kit

Sure, anybody with ears can agree that something is lost when records are converted and compressed to digital files. But if you really want to walk the walk you can’t just listen to vinyl, you have to record your own.

February 6, 2010

How Records Are Made

The machines that make vinyl records today are the same hulking, steaming shapers of goop that were doing it 40 years ago. Very cool.

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