Comments on: Bootleg Objects

Bootleg Objects

aeiou — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:13:40 -0800

Bootleg Objects, the site of two artists in Germany, have done some really amazing work retrofitting popular technology to serve a new and/or unintended purpose -- just because they can. It's quite beautiful design -- who knows of other examples?

By: shoepal

shoepal — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:06:25 -0800

(also seen here)

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:50:58 -0800

The Mini ITX crowd is big on this sort of repurposing, with mixed results. Also a boombox retrofit in Wired a few months back. Also this via BoingBoing. Not necessarily as artisticly scoped or with quite as puffy an aesthetic, but...

By: Peter H

Peter H — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:06:03 -0800

That's a horrible unforgivable thing to do to a Technics table (talk about making a gimp out of a tank) but the B&O redo with the smartcard and mp3 capability is pretty damn sweet.

By: pekar wood

pekar wood — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:39:11 -0800

The turntable reminds me of the Macquarium.

By: Bdave

Bdave — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:58:27 -0800

As a collector of vintage record players it's a conundrum for me whether to restore or refit but these guys do it oh so well. Very nice, thanks.