Remember the days when people actually carried large boomboxes on their shoulders? I bet you though those days were long gone when iPods came along, eh? Well fear not, this weird and somewhat crazy Retro Blaster iPod Boombox solves the ‘problem’…
I originally watched this video a few months back, however, I just saw that on YouTube that it now has more than 30,000,000 page views. Set in a cartoon style, the quirky music is represented by cartoon characters in a very unique and retro medium. Even though there is nothing outrageous in the video, I can see why it had it has garnered so many page views─and I recommend the animation─it’s quite original. I think that the scene on the bus is quite charming and there is just something strangely eerie about it too! Check it out…
I just came across this great New York Jazz Poster via Gareth Coxon. I’m unsure who the original designer is for this piece, but if you know, please contact me so I attribute credit. Also via Designspiration.net.
Designing a gig poster is one of the most creatively challenging types of commercial design. There is good reason for this. Posters advertising events have been around for as long as writing has been, but poster design really blossomed in the late nineteenth century when chromolithography allowed posters to be printed with vivid, full-colour images. The technology intrigued artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret, who came to be considered the father of advertising placards.
That fine art tradition was still going strong when gig posters became popular in the 1960s, and with the modern rise of indie bands as well as cheaper and easier printing techniques, designing gig posters has become even more prestigious.
I just discovered this video named I’ll be gone from KORB. It shows what appears to be a Seismometer (you know, a machine that measures earthquake activity) or even a heart rate monitor device. Anyway, what is really freaky about this video is what happens to the red ink that the Seismometer deposits on the graph paper.
I thought this paper record player invite was pretty amazing. Watch the video (by kellianderson) after the screenshots to see what happens!
This is a wedding invitation for my friends Karen and Mike. We created a paper record player to house + play a flexi disc pressed with their original song, inviting guests to the wedding [read more].
This fantastic music video is for a song entitled “Yes I Know” by Memory Tapes, and was created by videographer Najork. I reckon it’s both disturbingly-brilliant and strangely eerie. It starts off with a man in his apartment who places a hand over his face, only to peer through a hole in it. Then, he starts to fragment even further as the video progresses. To see what happens and to hear the track, take a look at the video after the screenshots.
As a follow-on to my previous music based post, here’s some incredible vinyl art sculpting by Australian artist, Scott Marr. He takes old vinyl records and carves intricate patterns into them (with great effect). The example below named “Records Bones” is an old Decca vinyl 25cm record. See the rest, too…
Design Soak is hardly the place to watch new music, but I couldn’t resist showing you this amazing video. It’s from a band named Walk off the Earth, who have produced a stunning yet simple video of a track by Gotye, which is entitled “Somebody That I Used To Know”.
Image source & copyright here
The Bigfoot Guitar. Wow, is this perhaps the most outrageous guitar ever?