Robb was once an Artist-in-Residence at Autodesk’s Pier 9. He went to Carnegie Mellon to study Art. He mostly does tangible artifacts that are often complex.
I am currently an Artist in Residence at the San Francisco Dump, run by Recology.There, I have witnessed unending tons of unwanted debris flow from the consumer into recycling centers and landfills. I noticed that nearly all of the E-waste was almost entirely functional, so I decided to make myself a speaker set made entirely from waste.
Source: Upcycled Vintage Suitcase Boombox
Patrick Gallagher set out to make a killer vintage looking boombox – we think he succeeded. Check out his step by step How-To.
Do it, and you can look as cool as him.
Portable, loud, and fashionable. Take a vintage suitcase and install a set of speakers, passive crossovers, an amplifier, and a couple of rechargeable batteries. Now you have a portable, albeit heavy, stereo that will make your ears bleed.
via Pack Your Music and Upcycle That Old Suitcase – Tutorial – Maxim.
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