Mix Taping

The technical disabilities of my parents car have driven me into a world of nostalgia. The world of the cassette tape. The original idea was as simple as recording "Den Sorte Skole" 1 & 2 on two different mixtapes. Due to new technical issues that couldn't happen. Instead I have been forced to re-create the art of the mix tape in its original form. Pulling out the old ghettoblaster labelled CD/RADIO/CASSETTECORDER I re-discovered the old school wonder of the "rec"-button. So now from all the CD's on the shelf I have compiled a mix tape as it used to be!


All that remains for the total re-invention of the digitalized art form is the art work, art work that will hopefully be in the spirit of the tape (photographic update will follow).

Note to mix tapers around the world: The sound quality really has improved since the days of the walk man, but the scratchy, hollow sound is part of the charm.

(Sailor-Emils new blog recently "published" some poetry by yours truly, if it has any interest: http://sailor-emil.blogspot.com/2010/03/det-var-en-tordag-aften.html)

Die blue! Dye black?

I had this t-shirt which was blue:



But this particular blue color really wasn't doing it for me. Liking the style of the t-shirt though, I didn't want to throw it out. So for a while it just hang in my closet unused. Fortunately I found a bunch of black textile dye. Black always being the new black, this turn of events was joyful. So I dyed the t-shirt black... well, at least I thought I did. This is how it came out:



Not black. That is for sure. Because the thread used for sowing the shirt is synthetic the dye didn't change the original cobolt blue of it at all. The shirt's fabric did change though, not into black though, but into something I believe to be some sort of navy blue. Which I actually like so everything turned out OK anyway.

I guess the soul of the shirt is blue. If not cobolt, then navy.