From: "Marie O'Connell" <[log in to unmask]>
> or even this -
> http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/7343/brian-dettmer-cassette-tape-skeletons.html
From: "Steven C. Barr" <[log in to unmask]>
> Hmm-m-m...seems to me that it might be possible to do the same thing with
> vinyl records? In fact, does the polyvinyl material used for LP's and 45's
> have a "melting point," where it becoms more or less liquid and thus
> can be formed into new and different shapes? Steven C. Barr
We've discussed this in the past, about melted records being made into
candy dishes, ash trays, drink coasters, lamps, wall hangings, and other
odd things. One of the dealers at the Wayne musical machines show puts
pretzels in an LP bowl every year. When I worked for a record
distributor in the '60s they made their ashtrays from LPs which had
gotten trapped in the oven of the shrink-wrap machine during power
failures. Just last week in a Barnes & Noble near Philadelphia they had
on 50% closeout some bookends made of LPs with a 90 degree bend one one
edge to support the book-end vertically. Like the coasters and candy
bowls I've seen in stores and on the web, they were made in England of
English LPs.
The type of tape artwork shown in the links remind me of another British
artform, using watch and clock parts and gears in making tourist scene
souvenirs. I have one showing the Houses of Parliment with the clock
tower that I bought on Portobello Road in 1983.
Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
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