Showing posts with label Vinyl Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vinyl Art. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Vinyl Art 2



Ok so here's the story: we get records from people we don't know, people who hear about Dean's interest in record collecting and want to unload their hundreds of records that have been sitting idle in their basement onto us. A few years ago, Dean came home with boxes and boxes of records to sift through, records he had gotten from an older lady out on the West side who's husband had passed away. Her husband had great taste in records- all the great jazz records were there, including a substantial Frank Sinatra collection and a wack of Elvis records. Interestingly while I was looking at one of the Elvis records, I noticed some writing on it... is that... no.. can't be.. but it kind of looks like it's an Elvis signature, no? Well, it does say 'best wishes, Elvis' on the record cover, and maybe it's wishful thinking, who knows. (Incidentally Elvis did perform a concert here in Vancouver many moons ago. Plus, what avid record collector would fake sign an Elvis record?)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Vinyl Art 1



Every once in a while I come across one of the records albums we have in our rediculously vast vinyl collection and I want to frame it. I've decided some of these album covers really need to be shared with others to be fully appreciated. I'm hoping to start a little weekly series, photographing some of the great, the lame and the cheesy cool covers for your view pleasure and hopefully you get as much a kick out of them as I do. Nothing beats flipping through Vinyl and reminiscing...
So today: 'Split Ends, by Waiata'- 1981
An 80's pop rock with cool beats, catchy tunes, boys band (set of brothers plus friends) with cheesy hair cuts and bad sunglasses (the back cover isn't quite as interesting, lets just put it that way.)
I like the colours and classic modern inspired cover. Great Tiffany green and grey/black combo!