MetaFilter posts tagged with tape

Rip, scratch! Rip, scratch...Stay away from Edit Suite 2!

embrangled — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:10:04 -0800

For television stations around the world, December is the season of the Christmas tape. Unlike ordinary blooper reels, Christmas tapes (also known as goof tapes) are produced as entertainment for the staff Christmas party, with the intention that they will never be seen by the general public. Tropes of the genre include cruel practical jokes, after-hours misuse of the studio's green screen, in-jokes about unreliable equipment, sarcastic assessments of colleagues' work habits, and the usual piece-to-camera screwups. The B-B-C's tradition of in-house production, however, has ensured that its Christmas tapes contain such oddities as indecent daleks, Nazi weather presenters and on one occasion, a rather bad sci-fi film. Most links mildly NSFW.

It's just you, a roll of tape and the internet, so why not?

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:00:29 -0800

Go ahead, tape yourself.

Of course I want gimmicks, I'm a record producer!

Lanark — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:44:55 -0800

DVDs to save the music industry (video interview) Record Producers discuss illegal downloads, home studios and why 5.1 DVD sound just might be the future. And more - a further 180 interviews on the same site, Producers and Studios. These vary in size and quality, from large video files, to small audio streams for anyone still on a dial-up connection.

Shakespeare's Sonnets Turn 400

Joe Beese — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:59:16 -0800

400 years ago today, Thomas Thorpe entered into the Stationers' Register a book titled "Shake-Speares Sonnets". However, Clinton Heylin argues that - like Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes - the Sonnets were never intended for a wide audience. "In both cases, they were killing time and at the same time dealing with huge personal issues in a private way, which they never conceived of coming out publicly."

The Tone Generation, A Radio History of Electronic Music

jack_mo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:15:34 -0800

The Tone Generation is a radio series by Ian Helliwell 'looking at different themes or composers in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology'. The original globe-trotting series: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, USA, Canada, Rest of World. Bonus programmes: Expo 58, The RCA Synthesizer. All links are to MP3 files, except the first one. Alternatively, you can slurp down the lot in one go by subscribing to the podcast feed.

Illustrated Histories of Various Recording Technologies

carter — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:25:29 -0800

Illustrated Histories of Various Recording Technologies

Tapes of Dalston

klangklangston — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:38:27 -0800

Once a week high quality digital recordings of cassette tapes purchased at the Dalston Oxfam Shop in East London.

Your Favorite [Cassette] DJ Savior

basicchannel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:08:51 -0800

Dual cassette deck DJ. DJ Ramsey of Scottsdale, Arizona does with cassettes what DJ's have done for decades with vinyl records, CDs and mp3s.

Packing Tapestry

spiderskull — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:15:14 -0800

Mark Khaisman makes incredible art using packing tape on plexiglass. (via)

Found cassette sounds.

6am — Sat, 19 May 2007 04:46:15 -0800

Tape Findings. Every week RJ from Sweet Thunder posts excerpts from one of a kind cassette tape recordings he finds at garage sales. Found due to Week 15 [better recording]. Other greats: Week 49, Week 73, Week 86. Dog damn.

Bill O'Reilly Duct Tape

wendell — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:51:21 -0800

Shut Up Tape It's what all the fashionable abusers are putting over their spouses' mouths these days. Of course, there are more socially acceptable uses, like in movie theaters or anywhere cell phones are overused. And police departments are buying it by the case for crowd control. Don't put guests with opposing viewpoints on your talk show without it!

The Mellotron

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:03:01 -0800

You may have never heard of it, but you've damn near certain heard it. The Mellotron (FortuneCity link) is a keyboard instrument; each of its keys triggers a tape with a pre-recorded instrument on it. It was effectively the world's first sample player. [more inside]

Sonic Postcards

nthdegx — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:02:54 -0800

Sonic Postcards - winner of the New Statesman New Media Award. Explore sound. Via the Sonic Arts Network, UK exponents of Electroacoustic music.

Off like a duct tape prom dress

me3dia — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:28:58 -0800

Stuck to their prom dates. Since 2001, Duck brand duct tape has sponsored a scholarship contest, open to any high school students willing to go to prom in outfits made of duct tape. This year's fashions range from the classic silver to wilder colors and patterns, and occasionally veer into the just plain strange. Dip into the archives for more.

The reel end of analog?

pfafflin — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:31:05 -0800

Tip and Shout: 2'' Tape: "But last Friday, [Jeff] Tweedy hit a snag as he prepared for a session in Wilco's Chicago studio space: Nobody could find any of the professional-grade audio tape the band is accustomed to using."

Gecko Feet might hold the key to inventing a self-cleaning adhesive.

zarq — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:08:25 -0800

Gecko Feet might hold the key to inventing a self-cleaning adhesive. The super-sticky feet of geckos allow them to adhere to almost any surface. But even though geckos never groom their feet, they don't lose their sticking power over time. Why? Turns out they're self-cleaning. . Scientists hope to be able to use this knowledge to create new, better kinds of dry tape and adhesives, like "duct tape that never loses its stick or bandages that come off without sticky residue or an 'ouch.'" Research info is here, along with some gecko pics.

Get duct or you're fuct

elwoodwiles — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:23:26 -0800

The great duct tape conspiracy? It seems that 46% of all duct tape is produced by the Manco Company of Avon, Ohio. The company, a division on Henkel inc, was run by Jack Kahl until just after Bush's 2000 election. It turns out Mr. Kahl donated no less than $100,000 to GOP committees in the 2000 election cycle. Has Tom Ridge become the official spokesperson of all things duct tape purely out of his concerns for our security here in the Homeland? Got duct tape? via boingboing

bivouac — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:18:56 -0800

Just Duct-y..... Hmmm. Duct tape seems to be a fix for everything, even curing warts. Err...don't try this on the genital kind, I guess.

bas67 — Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:09:18 -0800

Bin Ladin Alive and Promises New Attacks Al Jezeera received a new tape.

Irontom — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:11:15 -0800

Nixon's Last Secret The race is on to try to recover the missing 18 1/2 minutes of the infamous Tape 342. While it will be interesting to see what's on the tape (if it can be recovered) the big question is this: Why erase part of one tape and leave all the others intact?

schlaager — Tue, 14 May 2002 11:53:08 -0800

Good news for Mac-owning, Celine Dione fans

"The process is pretty easy: I took a bit of electrical tape and applied it to the edge of the CD, the 'shiny side', - just a half inch of the stuff - and aligned it with the very edge 'data track session ring' visible on these copy protected CDs. Took the tape out to the outside of the CD and put it in my CD Rom."

victors — Sat, 15 Dec 2001 13:09:37 -0800

Bin Laden 'heard' in Tora Bora Ah, yes, but were his lips moving in sync?

hotdoughnutsnow — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 05:44:38 -0800

Tape released on downed Cessna. I just heard the audio tape from the downing of the Missionary Cessna by the Peruvian jet - it is far worse than I had ever expected. This has to be one of the most disturbing things I have heard on NPR in a while. I wasn't able to find the audio online, but there are excepts in this article. It all boils down to poor communications, and IMO poor training - the US pilots should have known more Spanish, and the Peruvians should have known more English.

Joe Hutch — Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:27:49 -0800

Bush campaign source of debate tape smear attempt. In this campaign follow-up sure to delight all you anti-Bushies--in case Rove's possible insider trading or Bush's disingenuous charm offensive in Europe hasn't sufficed--an ex-Bush campaign aide pleads guilty.