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Get Your Retro On: Mixed Tape Madness
I love a good mixed tape, which is why I love all these retro-inspired goodies that resemble the 80's icon. Who didn't love receiving a good mixed tape from a friend, or even better, a crush? I thought so.
Fake It With a Headphone-Print Tee
I really liked the headphones hoodie when I posted it a few months ago, but I wasn't sure who would wear it.
That is, until I threw a barbecue a couple weekends ago and one of my guy friends showed up in a headphones-printed tee, and got compliments on it all night long. Sincere compliments.
Invite Your Mixtapes to the Revolution With a Cassette Archiver
All the mixtape accessories and websites are pretty cute and novel, but you don't actually play cassette tapes — do you?
If you have something you are hanging onto in cassette form for whatever reason (hey, I've got an old "Forever Your Girl" single in my memory box), it might be time to get yourself this USB Cassette Tape Archiver (on sale for $169) so you can convert your old tapes to mp3 files.
Finally, you can relive your high school BFF's "Friday Night Party Mix" on your iPod!
Make Funny Photos and Graphics With Says-It
Oh my gosh, I absolutely love Says-It! When I first came across this rad site, I had no idea that you could choose from a variety of objects, signs, seals and badges to create hilarious graphics for! Says-It is just as addictive as MagMyPic because the options are endless with what you can design.
Website of the Day: Cassette From My Ex
Mixed tapes on the Internet are rising in popularity, and I know if you're of a certain age, the sight of a cassette tape on any website seduces your memories with thoughts of the boyfriends, girlfriends, and unrequited crushes that handed you one of those little rectangles, full of emotions and messages.
But while most sites merely use the lexicon or imagery of the mixtape, like Muxtape and Mixwit, there's now a site that pulls at your heartstrings and discusses the real heart of mixed tapes: Cassette From My Ex.
Cassette From My Ex's blog posts are sentimental short stories of people recalling Summer romances or young loves and the mixtape that defined them.
Cassette Tape Lamp: Love It or Leave It?
Whether it coordinates with your decor or not, some things get free passes for being eco-friendly examples of recycled objects that would have been wasted otherwise. Such is the case with this Cassette Tape Lamp by Transparent House.
Indeed, while this lamp, made up of used, superfluous cassette tapes possesses a certain '80s aesthetic, it's also disarmingly ethereal — and it hits me right in my green spot.
Trendy Geek-Inspired Accessories!
Unique, reasonably priced wallets and gadget cases do exist! Etsy user Quiet Doing has a huge collection of some of the most hippest accessories imaginable. Choose from keyboard wallets like the one shown here, turntable wallets, and record player Nano cases — J'adore!
Vintage Geek: Radio-Cassette Corders
The other night I met up with some of my childhood friends at a cute club in the Mission in San Francisco. As we watched the slightly-less exciting third act (our friend spinned with the second act so we might have been a little biased) our conversation turned to the hilarious mix tapes we used to make one another when we were kids. While we didn't use anything like the AIWA Radio-Cassette Corder, which was made in 1976, we were definitely rocking similar technology - recording from CDs and other cassette tapes onto a cassette tape and sometimes, if we were feeling especially into it, recording personal jokes between songs.
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Love It or Leave It? Retro Cassette Bag
If you purchased a hot neon Marcella Foschi cassette wallet, you may just want to add this retro geek cassette tote to your collection! Posted by Popgadget, this old-school carry-all bag has a black and yellow cassette pattern printed on its flexible plastic exterior. And yes, the handles were made to look like unraveling cassette tape.
Cassette Wallets by Marcella Foschi
These fun neon bright retro cassette wallets made their debut at the Tokyo Designboom 2006 Mart where young design professionals showcased their latest products and showed off their geeky talents. Created by Italian designer Marcella Foschi, these wallets are actually hand made from real (Italian) cassette tapes. Geek chic and Italian - be still my heart.
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