The Perfect Mix Tape
When I was a boy, I used to make mix tapes all the time from the radio. I thought I was a pro at it! I never caught the commercials or the DJ talking. This made my mix tapes popular with the ladies.
Mix tapes required thought, good timing & effort. Making drag & drop playlists or CDs is just not the same.
Essayist Michael Resnick has said:
“With the CD revolution in the near past and the digital revolution at hand, our music collections exist increasingly on hard drives, computer software, and mp3 players, while vinyl and CDs collect dust in the attic. Simultaneously, the ‘mix tape’ has gone digital, the medium for which it seems it was always meant.”
I wonder if my children will ever reminisce over CDs or their vibrantly colored & shiny 8GB iPod Nanos?
My how times change!
Love the composition in this shot, especially the heart shape at the end of the tape.
This post is so true. Our children will have nothing to pull out, blow the dust off, and remember when. They now just delete and replace their music from one month to the next. I’ve often said to friends that our kids, mine is 21, are being raised in as a disposable generation. Everything is a throw away.
Shaz – Thx so much!!!
Andrea – This new media is a trip. Nothing is tangible. And like you said, everything is disposable. As soon as the latest & greatest comes out, everything else is trashed. Hmmm!