Create Art Using Your Old Cassette Tapes

 

Being that I'm a huge fan of anything artistic in nature, I had to share these awesome images from artist, Erika Iris Simmons. She used old cassette tapes and created art by using the tape running inside these little boxes of music.  From Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, and Bob Marley to Blondie, The Beatles, and John Lennon - they are all pretty darn cool.  She even created art using old film reels and video cassette tapes - you can check those out on her Flickr page.

Source: Erika is a self-taught artist currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. In her incredible series titled Ghost in the Machine, Erika uses film from recycled cassette tapes and old film reels to create fantastic portraits of iconic artists and musicians. Below is a small sample of this wonderful series. You can find the complete gallery on iri5′s Flickr page.

I Kissed A Girl, And I Liked It !

If you missed last night's episode of Glee, you didn't miss much.  Just the part where Santana came out to her "abuelita" aka grandmother.  Actually, the entire show was about Santana and the support she garnered from the rest of the Glee cast.

The performances featuring hit songs by Pink, K.D. Lang, and Melissa Etheridge, were commendable at best, but it was the "I Kiss A Girl" song by Katy Perry that made the night.   I'm sure it will create a lot of controversy with the religious right, but it was great.  

In the end, grandma wants nothing to do with her Latina grandaughter, and kicks her ass out of the house.  "It would have been best to keep it a secret than to disgrace the family," she says.

Uh, sorry grandma, but a liar and a deceiver are two things I wouldn't want to be.

Kathy Griffin, New Directions, The Beatles, Pink, and a Nun - What More Could You Want From Glee?

I don't even know where to begin.  Santana vs. Brittany, Kathy Griffin vs. Sarah Palin, New Directions vs. Warblers, and who the hell is going to die?  These are all the questions I'm having issues with.

Last week we saw Santana confess her love for Brittany, but Brittany wasn't going to have any of it, because she can't drop Artie at the drop of a hat.  She did manage to tell her that she would be the next choice if they so happened to break up.

Tonight we have Kathy Griffin acting like Sarah Palin as a member of the Tea Party and Loretta Devine as a nun, which can only mean one thing - there's an appeal to our friends on the right by casting these two.  And who better to show their true colors than Sue Sylvester and her Aural Intensity by singing, "Jesus Is My Friend."  Clearly someone will be playing to them.

In addition to that song, the Warblers will be singing "Blackbird" by The Beatles (Kurt)
"Candles" by Hey Monday (Kurt and Blaine), "Misery" by Maroon 5 (Blaine), and "Raise Your Glass" by Pink (The Warblers).  And while New Directions may only have 3 songs up their sleeve tonight, they're all original, with 2 of them released already, "Loser Like Me" and "Get It Right."  Both of those songs rely heavily on Rachel Barry.  The third song will be all about Mercedes, "Hell to the No."

And what of the death of the century?  Did everyone seem to forget about that?  It seems like it vanished from thin air and no one is talking about it any longer.  My thought is, we could either be taken by surprise or it was simply thrown out.  Either way, we will find out tonight on Fox at 8/7 central.  Don't Miss It!