Comments on: Generation cassette

By: Cassette clearinghouse « everydaytrash

Cassette clearinghouse « everydaytrash — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:14:30 +0000

[...] Related: This summer Walker and co posted a series on music on unconsumption that also featured neat cassette-themed links. That series coincided with the immediate aftermath of the contested presidential elections in Iran and inspired this everydaytrash post on technology, human rights and creative resuse. [...]

By: Linkpile

Linkpile — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:27:12 +0000

[...] Cassette Tape Culture: Another of Tom H.’s unconsumption & music posts. “Cassette wallets, a dress made weaving cassette tape, cassette belt buckles, USB sticks and more.” Interesting related notes from Everydaytrash, here. [...]

By: Leila Darabi

Leila Darabi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:17:51 +0000

Thanks, DT, for the link and the moral support!

By: dumpstertaoist

dumpstertaoist — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:31:06 +0000

Here’s some inspiration for that art project…a different take:

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2009/06/pl_playlist?slide=7&slideView=2

It was a great technology, and I’m sad that it is fading. Tape was a huge part of my childhood and teenage years, beginning with recording the sounds of my every day life as a kid all the way to those mixtapes that were such a part of the teenage experience in the 80s and 90s.

I hope you can channel that energy, it’s a worthwhile idea for sure.

-dt