(Left: The Vinyl Disc Thrower
Throwing Vinyl records right at you. The antique world's influence on the world of today.
Below: The Cogger Girl series reflect on the destruction of the world's resources.)
Vinyl Mob put these pictures up on facebook together with a commentary about interesting vinyl records facts and history. Topics ranged from the manufacturing of vinyl, to the first audio produced on records. There were facts and figures about vinyl records value and cute stories that were intended to stimulate appreciation for the records of yore. Here's an example below:
By about 1910 bound collections of empty sleeves with a paperboard or leather cover, similar to a photograph album, were sold as record albums that customers could use to store their records (the term "record album" was printed on some covers). These albums came in both 10-inch and 12-inch sizes. The covers of these bound books were wider and taller than the records inside, allowing the record album to be placed on a shelf upright, like a book, suspending the fragile records above the shelf and protecting them.
Starting in the 1930s, record companies began issuing collections of 78 rpm records by one performer or of one type of music in specially assembled albums, typically with artwork on the front cover and liner notes on the back or inside cover. Most albums included three or four records, with two sides each, making six or eight tunes per album. When the 12-inch vinyl LP era began in 1949, the single record often had the same or similar number of tunes as a typical album of 78s, and was still often referred to as an "album"
The Vinyl Mob art concept is to include a vinyl record making a statement about harmony and disharmony. The sports series below features sportsmen with musical instruments for a head.
The Vinyl Mob art concept is to include a vinyl record making a statement about harmony and disharmony. The sports series below features sportsmen with musical instruments for a head.
"Vinyl Mob is open to the viewer's interpretation and the author does not feel he has the right to comment upon his works." Below are pictures from the animal series. 'Severin' in a leather jacket and 'The Stag' with her female limbs outstretched on a carpet of autumn leaves.
The works were intended to promote Vinyl Mob events and activities, to be included in publications on album covers, on websites and social platforms. However they are an artistic work in their own right and therefore are being displayed as such on this page.
The 'Love' series ranges from the them of including human or animal figures with instruments for a head to the vegetable tomato and onion in 'A Perfect Pair' sitting together on a bench in the park with robins and paper boats and a gold fish bowl. The obvious bunch of red flowers and the vinyl record. 'Vinyl Love' comes on a pink background with the female gramophone head recorded by the male microphone, with jack cables entwined. The female straw hat features in both pictures. 'I have always loved Dali's paintings and yet a visit to his theatre museum in Figueres made me feel as if he was breathing down my neck." Don Mario. 'The cheek and childlike playfulness of a master painter. He calls it a theatre but I would liken it more to a playhouse, a frivilous prankster frolicking about with objects reserved for adults. Let's play with forbidden objects whilst mum's not looking. Let's turn the sitting room around to look like Mae's face, let's get daddy's car and get it to rain inside the car, let's get uncle's boat and make it fly high above. The bathroom, well let's turn it upside down and stick it to the ceiling. The grotesque skeletons and skulls, grandfather's collection perhaps? Most of all Dali had his trade marks that figured in all his works. The spindly daddy long legs elephant,women with busts that were open drawers, the cloth like shapeless clock and so many elements that made him Dali."
The 'Landscape' series shows surreal panoramas. A good example is the 'Teapot Balloons,' where teapots sail in the air held by hot air balloons as they pour vinyl record drops onto a landscape of cup and saucer craters on a river bank.
The 'Fried Egg' shows an egg fried on a pan flamed by ice cubes in the desert with a butterfly hovering around it enjoying the glorious sunset.
'Tree in the Clouds' portrays a tree with a woman's figure for a trunk atop the clouds high up in the sky, with Vinyl Mob sharks circling around it. Other similar trees can be seen in the background.
'What struck me about Magritte are the crude and simple lines of his paintings. The original pencil marks are still there for all to see. He never bothered to cover them with paint or erase them. A crooked line remained crooked, a smudge was meant to stay. Magritte seems not to have bothered. Unlike Dali he was not interested in perfection. However he was interested in surreal imagery but in a way directly different from that used by Dali. He used real landscapes and figures that looked like the figures one finds in real life. What will hit you is the way things are transformed when out of context. A little scene of a building and lamp post by a lake. Very ordinary, almost like a photo. However the bottom part is dark, the lamp shines bright in the night and the sky above has a smiling sun. It will take you by surprise. So will most of his other works. Men in their Magritte top hats raining out of the sky, lovers with sacks over their heads, an eye as a false mirror, apples wearing masks, A man portrayed from the back looking at a mirror, but his reflection is his back and the list goes on and on. It is frighteningly simple and yet it plays all the tricks that art can pull on your brain.'
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