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The Cassette Tape Skeleton

Offbeat — July 11, 2008 at 0:09

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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  1. Pragya2008-07-11 01:49:24

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

  2. JIm JOnes2008-07-11 05:15:59

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

  3. zenalien2008-07-11 06:01:11

    Poor tapes !!

  4. Joe Hello2008-07-11 10:15:24

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

  5. da2008-07-11 13:38:02

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

  6. daniel2008-07-11 18:14:43

    wow dude, that's REALLY cool

  7. CURATOR HAN SOLO2008-07-11 18:58:01

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

  8. Mike2008-07-11 21:13:08

    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. SoLinkable2008-07-11 22:18:36

    Somebody has waaaaay too much time...

  10. Gummi2008-07-15 09:37:42

    Who has so much time?!?!?

  11. Chloe DeVore2008-07-17 05:05:27

    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. sam2008-07-19 22:25:51

    totally photoshopped

  13. Tish2008-07-25 12:13:47

    @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 Merger2008-09-16 20:33:40

    that is really interesting. quite unique to say the least

  15. EdCor2008-11-12 11:24:10

  16. TwistedSifter2009-02-19 05:28:01

    Awesome work! Haters be gone. When are you going to do the CD version? :-)

  17. Clareabel2009-03-21 13:20:58

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

  18. Ram2009-03-29 20:45:34

    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 Thorstad2009-04-15 03:54:06

    Metal Head

  20. Phil E. Drifter2009-04-15 17:47:27

    Photoshopped.

  21. saitokthx2009-04-16 04:47:25

    wow, that must have taken years to make

  22. grammar king2009-04-16 12:46:54

    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. Emily2009-04-23 03:02:43

    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. Jono2009-04-24 09:14:44

    WHAT A FUCKING WAAAASSSSSSTTTTTEEEEE

  25. mcgrimus2009-04-27 21:28:00

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

  26. News Marked2009-07-26 08:33:37

    Wow... that is a talent

  27. anne2009-08-09 23:22:31

    hey cool.. does anyone know about pinheads?? ,, a song,, feel it???

  28. Tnelson2009-10-01 05:57:09

    Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work!

  29. Scott2009-11-28 23:58:27

    Would you like a couple thousand more cassettes ? they are all motivational seminars from the 80's and 90's ...... my email address is : scottsprivatemailbox@gmail.com

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    Cosas que se pueden hacer con cintas de casette... Cuando uno se aburre puede hacer muchas cosas, hasta coger todas las cintas de audio que tenga y hacer ... visto en microsiervos (www.microsiervos.com/archivo/arte-y-diseno/cosas-hacer-cintas-audio.htl)...

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