Part of a project by artist Ben Geier where he redesigns the logos from his favorite record labels in a retro style - taking lots of Inspiration from the Batman animated series. (via Ben Geier)
Who says Vinyl has to be circular?
Well it sort of makes sense if it is. This looks more like something Oddjob would enjoy throwing at Sean Connery. (via Happiness Is A Beginning)
Hell yeah! (via Cruzine)
Meet Eric Bowie…
…not really but we love these sleeve collages used to advertise online record retailer The Vinyl Exchange. More >>> (via I Believe In Advertising)
The rise and fall of music formats between 1980 and 2010. Vinyl hanging on in there ready for victorious comeback!
(via Under Consideration)
What would a record sound like if it was cut on to wood rather than pressed on to vinyl? Well, what it lacks in quality it gains in beauty. These fantastic laser cut discs were made by Amanda Ghassaei, tech Editor at the Instructables website. A brilliant collision of old and new. Read the whole story and moon over some fab pics here. (via Geekosystem)
The Runout Groove
Lovely links for your perusal and delight…
Tales of the Tape Casette in the digital age
Five reasons you love your vinyl
The crackle and pop of vinyl records
Creation Records boss Alan McGee's new label – 359 Music
more links>>>
Alternative shot from the Abbey Road album cover session (via Feel Numb)
Low visual remix poster from the V&A (via Design Week)
Check out Press Play and Record – an online repository of free magazine tapes from 80s and 90s.
Yes, before Mp3's, before 8-tracks and cassettes, there were many format experiments in the vinyl era – among them portable 4" discs. Fair enough, nice idea BUT erm… carry them inside hoop ear-rings? (via Vinyl Revolutions)
Eusebio (via Voices Of East Anglia)
Tiny Dancers
We love this painting of Elton John by outsider artist John Croft - part of his Icons exnibition at the KK Outlet in London this month. Go see it. (via Creative Review)
(via Mindgrapes)
Queen of Photoshops
from the recent b3ta Photoshop challenge to add or remove a single letter from an artist's name…
See all the entries here
Vinyl Trick Shots
Things you can't do with an MP3 No.671: Attempt daring disc to turntable throwing. Seriously though does that player have some kind of vinyl-magnetic thing going on?
Great Tea Pots of Our Time
Maybe this is what the blind pottery lady in the video made after she'd finished the model of Lionel's head? (via Lenny Mudd)
(via Vice)
The Vinyl Lounge
The Vinyl Lounge at The Old Vinyl Factory looking lovely in the sunshine. (via Studio Myerscough)
George Harrison: Made In Hayes
George Harrison video, filmed at the EMI pressing plant in Hayes - now The Old Vinyl Factory - showing the production of his third studio album Living In The Material World.
Turntable + Paper and Pens = Fun
Ah, the simple joys you can have with a turntable some paper and a few felt-tips.
(via Papiers Collés from Alan De Cecco on Vimeo.)
RARE GLIMPSE AT RECORD STORE “DO NOT BUY” LIST
You know when you go into a record shop and you try to sell stuff you don't want and it turns out the shop doesn't want it either? Well maybe it's on their "Do not buy list". The magic of the internet has uncovered this list from a Chicago store which features amongst other albums staff should never buy from punters Sting, Men At Work and "almost all soundtracks!!!" (via Egotripland)