The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Too many popcorn bowls have been made, so there's no market left... Leave it to some enterprising lunatics to come up with something more egregious... record wall art. Designed and manufactured in the USA. Real vinyl records were used to create this beautiful wall art.
The Cole Porter Songsbook...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jazz-Clock-V ... 0005.m1851

This guy clearly has some kind of laser cutter as he has literally hundreds if not thousands of designed to choose from. Some are just discs, some are clocks. I'll give him credit for having a clever idea, but I hope hes using junk records for these.

The number of songs on the label doesn't appear to match the number of bands in the record, and has no hole punched in the center, so looks like he's printing his own labels to use. So he could use any record he wanted.

Or maybe the record stamper already has the design built into it. That would be cheaper than having to laser cut each one.

Curt- are you selling these? Price?

gramophone-georg wrote:Curt- are you selling these? Price?

No, I'm trying to come up with some destructive ideas of my own to make some extra cash... since the coronavirus is going to kill us all, who cares about history?
Maybe, I'll take a bunch of phonograph parts, weld them together and rust them to make yard art, like the Mexican stuff... Maybe Nippers with bodies made from motors and with steel shovels for heads or Pathé roosters that have cranks for legs...

A guy skinned a Porshe and hung it up in a major gallery in Los Angeles as art.
If you have to destroy a work of art to make art you are not much of an artist in my view.

I once confronted a guy who was selling these vinyl record bowls at an art market. He told me that these are not really made from actual records, but that they are made from unplayable dummies that were stamped just for that purpose. When I was looking closer at the bowls I could actually confirm that. Now that doesn't mean that there couldn't be "artists" out there who re-purpose real records, but it appears that these dummies are sold from art supply catalogs. I still wouldn't buy any, it still makes me cringe looking at them

Andreas

I like the way you never post these types of things in the correct thread Curt. Keeps things intersting when the "categories" have rare surprises in them.

travisgreyfox wrote:I like the way you never post these types of things in the correct thread Curt. Keeps things intersting when the "categories" have rare surprises in them.

I always like surprises myself... but since this is a post about a "record", it seems appropriate to post it under "Music Trader", since you might want to trade some record you have for this...

Curt A wrote:

travisgreyfox wrote:I like the way you never post these types of things in the correct thread Curt. Keeps things intersting when the "categories" have rare surprises in them.

I always like surprises myself... but since this is a post about a "record", it seems appropriate to post it under "Music Trader", since you might want to trade some record you have for this...

You have yourself a deal! I will trade you my 1950s re-copy of Al Jolson's Toot, Toot, Tootsie! I hear that records worth a fortune from every millennial selling their grandparents old record collection!