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The Cassette Tape Skeleton

July 11, 2008 - 242,885 views

Cassette tapes are near extinction, considering CDs, DVDs, Blue Ray and other innovative disk coming along. And the following skeleton is one wacky creation for this statement. The creation belongs to Brian Dettmer, I guy famous for altering common media such as old books, maps, record albums, and cassette tapes and transforming them into works of art. The following skeleton is currently on display at the International Museum of Surgical Science.



More on Brian on his flickr stream and another interesting work on book autopsies.

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63 Responses to “The Cassette Tape Skeleton”

  1. Pragya on July 11th, 2008 1:49 am

    now i know wat to do wit all my plastics….

  2. JIm JOnes on July 11th, 2008 5:15 am

    Dude that is SO cool! Someone apparently liked classic ROCK! Good use for old cassetes long replaced by CDs or MP3s.

    JT

  3. zenalien on July 11th, 2008 6:01 am

    Poor tapes !!

  4. Joe Hello on July 11th, 2008 10:15 am

    Where’s the full shot? I see skull, shoulders and one shot of a hip bone but no full shot? :(

  5. da on July 11th, 2008 1:38 pm

    now i know wat to do wit all my plastics….

    wat

  6. daniel on July 11th, 2008 6:14 pm

    wow dude, that’s REALLY cool

  7. CURATOR HAN SOLO on July 11th, 2008 6:58 pm

    WHOA, GET THAT THING INTO A GARBAGE COMPACTOR ASAP!! LooL361

  8. Mike on July 11th, 2008 9:13 pm

    Did someone just refer to Huey Lewis and Motley Crue and The Go Go’s as “classic rock?” You just made me feel really old. Classic rock = while the Vietnam War was still going on.

  9. SoLinkable on July 11th, 2008 10:18 pm

    Somebody has waaaaay too much time…

  10. Gummi on July 15th, 2008 9:37 am

    Who has so much time?!?!?

  11. Chloe DeVore on July 17th, 2008 5:05 am

    dont listen to all of those people who are disrespecting you. this is amazing and all of them know that they could never pull this together

  12. sam on July 19th, 2008 10:25 pm

    totally photoshopped

  13. Tish on July 25th, 2008 12:13 pm

    @sam
    Photoshopped, /where/? Oh, do you mean the labels?

    Even someone with impressive rendering skills won’t do something like that. Next time, take a closer look.

  14. Google Yahoo Merger on September 16th, 2008 8:33 pm

    that is really interesting. quite unique to say the least

  15. EdCor on November 12th, 2008 11:24 am

  16. TwistedSifter on February 19th, 2009 5:28 am

    Awesome work! Haters be gone.

    When are you going to do the CD version? :-)

  17. Clareabel on March 21st, 2009 1:20 pm

    At least it isn’t made of vinyl. Vinyl is by no means obsolete.

  18. Ram on March 29th, 2009 8:45 pm

    While the pieces are stunning and unique… have you ever heard of dioxin? As in that really horrible, bio accumulating, birth defect causing by product of applying high heat to plastic?
    Cool but not very responsible.

  19. Anthony Thorstad on April 15th, 2009 3:54 am

    Metal Head

  20. Phil E. Drifter on April 15th, 2009 5:47 pm

    Photoshopped.

  21. saitokthx on April 16th, 2009 4:47 am

    wow, that must have taken years to make

  22. grammar king on April 16th, 2009 12:46 pm

    Pragya. You could make a book out of all the melted down plastic and create a book, an easy to read one of course that teaches you how to spell. Please don’t be a lazy writer. It makes you look stupid and pathetic.
    And no it is not photoshopped.

  23. Emily on April 23rd, 2009 3:02 am

    Run on sentence much? Some grammar king, can’t even form a coherent insult.

    Cool skeleton, what did you do with all the tape?

  24. Jono on April 24th, 2009 9:14 am

    WHAT A FUCKING WAAAASSSSSSTTTTTEEEEE

  25. mcgrimus on April 27th, 2009 9:28 pm

    This thing was not made by Man. It rose up from out of the hot vinyl seats of my friends ‘78 Monte Carlo.

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