January 26 2004: Let the Music Play by Ray :)

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Let the Music Play

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January 26 2004:
Let the Music Play

I largely only use tapes in my car now, and I imagine when I get my next car it will have a CD player, as this rather unreliable format is rapidly swept away. I generally make my own compilation albums up, often with some help from CD's at the local public library so I have some fresh tunes that I don't have in my own CD collection.

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photo and copyright: Ray Pettit

Guest		05-Feb-2004 08:22
I love this - it's so classy and sharp. In places it looks like a banknote - looks like curling script up there in the top centre which adds to the intrigue somehow.

June Marie Sobrito		30-Jan-2004 02:37
Love this...real creative and love the backlighting!

Guest		29-Jan-2004 07:19
Very cool shot Ray. Had no idea what it was until I saw your explaination. Great lighting also. Rob

Elizabeth Glass		28-Jan-2004 14:55
Nice shot. I like the high contrast black and white for this.

John Buffin		28-Jan-2004 06:25
Great subject. Well done.

Guest		28-Jan-2004 02:34
Great shot Ray. I really like the backlighting. Great effect.

brother_mark		28-Jan-2004 01:46
Imaginative shot Ray. My cassettes are under the bed...or somewhere. I once worked in a factory that manufactured cassettes. Side A and Side B start out separately as "tops" or "bottoms." When these clear ones come out of the moulding machine they often had a lot of electrostatic energy. Everyone hated sticking their hands in the bin to pull out the flash bits. Then they went into a hooper which through its vibrations, and carefully laid out air tubes (and sometimes a little help from a human drone!) would rotate around until they were single file, face up, tooth-side to the left and then head into the machine for hubs, rollers and leader tape, etc. Practical engineering is fascinating, but the factory job truly sucked. And now I'll have to listen to Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine."

Guest		27-Jan-2004 05:50
Thanks Ray. It brings me lot of memory...I recall that my Apple II computer also used cassette tapes. It took hours to load a game! Sam

mikiruaq		27-Jan-2004 05:19
Awesome image. I still have tapes in my truck but none in my house.

Guest		27-Jan-2004 04:10
Wow, this is an impressive image, Ray! Really creative work here. Took me a second to figure out what it was, since we normally don't see tapes this way!

Guest		27-Jan-2004 02:42
I like the backlighting here! I too have graduated from the tape generation and can honestly say, I don't own a single one!

Guest		26-Jan-2004 23:56
A nice use of backlight - subtle. I skipped loads of tapes when I move 18 months ago - over the years, many had been replaced by CDs. "Home Taping is killing music" as the RIAA/ FACT would have you belive - followed by "File Sharing is killing music" I don't think so - I have, let's see - 1400 CDs, 500 records and about 120gbs of MP3s. Music can safely said to be an obsession - at least until I found photography. Fact is, for every MP3 album I download from Usenet or rip from a CD, I buy a couple more - and I often buy a CD after downloading an MP3. It just allows me to try more types of music without the risk factor of buying as much crap.

Chris Brooker		26-Jan-2004 22:41
Good shot Ray. I have to have tape to time-shift The Archers to washing-up time. Also my collection of about 30 Hancock's Half Hour and many other comedy programmes. Oh, and many, many radio plays. Long Live Tape.

Guest		26-Jan-2004 21:48
Cool!! Interesting way to show a casette. I almost forgot what they look like! I can't forget that they sound terrible after being played time and again so that they take on a muffled sound - or the days when I'd pass a few metres of discarded tape on the roadside where someone has unravelled one! Once a common site (well, where I grew up it was, anyway) - very rarely seen, now!

Carol E Sandgren		26-Jan-2004 21:33
See how old technology can make such nice graphic design photographs?? I love how you backlit this cassette tape! Did you use a lightbox to light it? The black and white (almost) tones really sharpen up this shot! Think I'll pop one of mine in the ol' tape player!!

Guest		26-Jan-2004 21:27
Nice use of the lighting! We have a CD player in one car and a tape player in the other...Needless to say, we fight over who gets the "good car" as I've been known to call the one with the CD player!

Jill		26-Jan-2004 21:26
Hey Mama tell me bout the good ol days...Wynona Judd. Like the backlighting..excellent image.

Lara S		26-Jan-2004 21:05
Very cool shot.

Guest		26-Jan-2004 20:02
the good old days. Great find

Pall Gudjonsson		26-Jan-2004 19:54
A really fine shot ! I got a 10CD changer in my car - on longer journeys I just press "random shuffle" for all 10 CD's and get hours of my favorites !

Guest		26-Jan-2004 19:54
I too like the backlit shot - nicely done Ray! Destined for lifes scrap heap now - have to say a cd player in the car is excellent though the one in the tractor seems to have packed up - expect the dreaded dust will have got in? ~ John

Guest		26-Jan-2004 18:59
Nice shot ray. Sadly I have to put up with tapes in the car. CD players don't come as standard in the beemer!

Guest		26-Jan-2004 18:47
I agree -- love the backlighting on this one. Nice!! -- angela :)

Linda Alstead		26-Jan-2004 18:41
I too have a cassette player in my car - and I too am hoping for a CD player in the next one....still, this shot is really nice!

Ian Chappell		26-Jan-2004 18:39
Nice bit of back lighting Ray! Just can't remember the last time I used a cassette, they're so 'last century' as Ellie would say!! LOL!!