Sunday, August 20, 2006
Can You Hear Me Now?
Yes, it's a musical instrument composed of 126 vintage Bakelite telephones:
Which reminds me: NPR had a great piece a couple weeks ago on a weirdly prophetic yet inept video jukebox from the 1960s called the Scopitone. You can see scores of them in all their warbly glory -- like this French scopitone video for "My Year Is A Day" by Dearly Beloved (aka Les Irresistables) -- over at Youtube...
Which reminds me: NPR had a great piece a couple weeks ago on a weirdly prophetic yet inept video jukebox from the 1960s called the Scopitone. You can see scores of them in all their warbly glory -- like this French scopitone video for "My Year Is A Day" by Dearly Beloved (aka Les Irresistables) -- over at Youtube...
