Vinyl Record Art - Dali Clock

Sometimes it seems that anywhere you are you could swing a dead 70's arena band drummer and hit somebody who makes clocks out of vinyl records. And that's probably true. But once in awhile one of those clocks stands out. This clock melting off the mantlepiece is really cool, best use of what's become a trite idea. I just hope to god that it isn't a Bay City Rollers record.

Vinyl Record Art - Wall Art Made from Old Vinyl Records

The JAXPAC, the Jacksonville Public Art Commission put local artists to work on the streets of Jacksonville. The artists took old vinyl records and combined them with wheat-paste graffiti to create a new kind of urban fossil. While you can’t hear the music from the records, if you listen closely, you may be able to hear the call of creatures long extinct.

Check Out - Angelo Bramanti And Giuseppe Siracusa Of L017 Transform Recycled Vinyl Records Into Unique Works Of Art.

 Angelo Bramanti And Giuseppe Siracusa of L017 create works of art from items most people throw away. Their pieces, made from old vinyl records. Some of them are both hauntingly beautiful and disturbing to the senses. 

How Cool Is That?!

I found this fantastic image on Pinterest today, but I can't find anything out about the artist. I'm sharing it anyway 'cause It's just too damn cool not to.

Vinyl Art From L017 - 4everD

L017 are Angelo Bramanti and Giuseppe Siracusa.  They use recycled materials.  Often, that's vinyl records.

A New Contender For The Best F-ing Thing Ever Done With A Vinyl Record

A film on vinyl. To see the film, a camera has to record the record spinning at 45rpm with the camera set at 25fps with a progressively higher shutter speed.

Demonstration Reel from Sculpture on Vimeo.

A Nagging Vinyl Record Question Is Answered By Art

I have a very simple mind.  None of the complex questions nag at my mind for very long.  For me, thoughts about string theory stop at "how come that line of mucus and saliva is so strong that it so rigidly hangs there after you spit your toothpaste - you can't shake it off, you either have to hunch until gravity pulls it down all the way, or wipe with your finger."

See, simple mind.

So when I came across the brochure for the Miami Art Museum's exhibit "The Record: Contemporary Art And Vinyl" (pdf), I first thought, "Did I brush my teeth this morning?" After dealing with a more difficult application of string theory, I sat back down at my monitor and read the brochure, and there in all it's glory was an answer to a question that had been nagging me since I started buying large loads of records.

That question has always been that in the character of any large load of records there are pristine specimens, and then there is the vast sea of ones about which I ask, "When the hell did these records get trashed so badly". 

And there, in the brochure, in a photograph titled "Je Suis Fan des Disques, 3 Nov. 1973 (I Am Crazy for Records)" was an answer, of sorts, or a least a time stamp.  A larger and cleaner version of the above photo appears in the brochure.  The picture dates from a series of portraits shot in Mali in 1973.  In this one particular photograph, 45 rpm records hang on a coat rack.  The records are beat to hell, as bad as some in a load I bought last week.  So if records got that way in their own time of circa 1973, what happens to them for the next forty years until they end up in my warehouse?  Answering one question brings on another question . . .

  

Audio For News and Auction Reports For Week Of May 3rd 2009

This week Best Buy gives floor space to a happy accident, vinyl art takes up wall space in the Hard Rock Hotel, and a career spanning compilation of George Harrison's music is announced.

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