Aug 2 2007Functioning Manual Paper Record Player
Artist Simon Elvins has created a fully working manual record player made entirely out of paper. Although it's more for show than anything, since it's about as manual as you can get. There's no device to turn the record so you have to turn it by hand, clockwise, at a steady rate of 33 1/3 RPM. You know, perfectly reasonable stuff for modern audio technology.
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Reader Comments
1. infecticide - August 2, 2007 11:42 AM
Does this thing actually make sound? I can't see it... and First!
2. werki - August 2, 2007 12:29 PM
yes, it will. you can even run along the groove with your fingernail and hear the
sound. needs some practicing though.
3. Morono - August 2, 2007 12:55 PM
You mean normally you can see sound? this man has to be on television!!111
4. vªnman - August 2, 2007 12:59 PM
I saw sound once. On LSD. It was pretty.
5. Luke - August 2, 2007 1:03 PM
Now, if I only had a record...
6. SuperStoned420 - August 2, 2007 1:13 PM
Retard Simon Elvins, couldn't figure out how to use an iPod, so he went about revinventing media players, at it's roots.
For his next project he plans to reinvent the wheel, because he couldn't figure out how to use a bike. He intends to use paper for this project too.
The benefit of using paper, he says, is that he can wipe his ass on anything at any given time.
7. Pastor Al - August 2, 2007 1:19 PM
We need more credentials for people to be called "artists".
8. Lauren.w - August 2, 2007 1:48 PM
Looks pretty cool, i guess that's one way to kill a boring sunday afternoon.
9. Lily - August 2, 2007 2:41 PM
For a moment, I thought it was cool. Then I remembered I was over the age of ten and could afford an actual record player. What happens if at your swanky dinner party someone spills liquid on it? It shall melt into a big smooshy ball thats what.
10. Noa - August 2, 2007 4:28 PM
And then man discovered fire...
11. Dan from gadgets club - August 3, 2007 9:44 AM
The design and the device are cool.
But is made for art not for functionality.
Posted by Dan,
Owner of http://www.gadgets-club.com – the gadget blog
12. Jab - August 3, 2007 11:16 AM
Wow you guys are really harsh, I for one think this is freaking awesome.
13. w00t - August 4, 2007 1:52 PM
Wow, this is way more practical than that 5,000$ turntable posted a couple months ago.
14. reCord86 - February 19, 2009 1:50 PM
This is absolutely fabulous. I think it IS artwork, it's like an installation piece, plus it is just really cool. Of course you COULD just buy a record player, but I think most people here are missing the point...
15. Emmanuel - February 21, 2009 12:29 PM
these comments are amazing. the majority of the posters here are severely mentally challenged or just ignorant to what the art world is about and how vast its contents are. the "critics" here would no doubt sputter a half thought out mind terd if asked what "art" is if it's not a paper record player. if you took your heads out of your own anuses you would see that there are countless aesthetic choices made here from color to the proportions of the cone (which is an artistic compromise between what it looks like and the acoustic properties of it as the sound amplifying device i.e. a form vs function relationship) and not to mention the fact that when viewing this device we contemplate that this simple machine couldn't have existed when modern record players were at the forefront because it took the passing of the excitement of that technological revolution to allow for this beautiful simplification to have been created today.
16. jon-jon - March 24, 2009 3:01 AM
F U C K thats awesome really "groovy " i love it !!!!!