<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c939ff92-82cf-40d9-9850-8fe39b11eb27/FB9C71D8-955E-4769-85D9-B2E3C07B73C4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/" href="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.inhabitots.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/"><P>Some people look at old cassette tapes and see <A href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/27/cassette-tape-lamps-add-warm-analog-glow-to-any-room/">lampshades</A> – others, <A href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/02/cassette-tape-recycling/">coin purses</A>. But few see anything as frightfully fun as what <A href="http://www.briandettmer.com">Brian Dettmer</A> sees — skulls! That’s right, the Atlanta-based artist recycles, melts, and melds the musical relics into eerily realistic “skullptures,” including a full human skeleton made of 180 tapes! Talk about being a bone-a-fide upcycler…</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/"> <DIV class="entrytext"> <P><IMG width="537" height="396" alt="recycled cassette tape skull, cassette tape skeletons, cassette tape, cassette tape skull, brian dettmer, halloween, faux skull, recycled cassette tape, recycled skull" src="http://www.inhabitots.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cassette2.jpg" title="recycled cassette tape skull" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-23116" /></P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/"><DIV class="gallery"><DL class="gallery-item"> <DT class="gallery-icon"> </DT><DT class="gallery-icon"> <A href="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/cassette/"><IMG width="75" height="75" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="" src="http://www.inhabitots.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cassette-150x150.jpg" /></A> </DT></DL><DL class="gallery-item"> <DT class="gallery-icon"> </DT><DT class="gallery-icon"> <A href="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/cassette2/"><IMG width="75" height="75" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="" src="http://www.inhabitots.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cassette2-150x150.jpg" /></A> </DT></DL><DL class="gallery-item"> <DT class="gallery-icon"> </DT><DT class="gallery-icon"> <A href="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/casette3/"><IMG width="75" height="75" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="" src="http://www.inhabitots.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/casette3-150x150.jpg" /></A> </DT></DL><DL class="gallery-item"> <DT class="gallery-icon"> </DT><DT class="gallery-icon"> <A href="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/casette4/"><IMG width="75" height="75" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="" src="http://www.inhabitots.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/casette4-150x150.jpg" /></A> </DT></DL><DL class="gallery-item"> <DT class="gallery-icon"> </DT><DT class="gallery-icon"> <A href="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/cassette5/"><IMG width="75" height="75" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="" src="http://www.inhabitots.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cassette5-150x150.jpg" /></A> </DT></DL> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/"><P>Of all things, how did Dettmer come up with bones as his subject matter? He’d already been contemplating the end of cassette tapes as media format when one day he spied a dead bird on the street and thought “here was this thing that used to live, it used to fly around and play a vital role, and now it is dead and all that remains is the solid material.” The analogy between analog media and skeletons was pretty easy to link up and before Brian knew it, he was creating a series of 12 human skulls out of tapes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/"><P><IMG width="537" height="396" alt="cassette tape bull skull, cassette tape skeletons, cassette tape, cassette tape skull, brian dettmer, halloween, faux skull, recycled cassette tape, recycled skull" src="http://www.inhabitots.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/casette4.jpg" title="cassette tape bull skull" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-23114" /></p> <P></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/12/brian-dettmers-ghastly-recycled-cassette-tape-skulls-skeletons/">What an intriguing <A href="http://www.inhabitots.com/category/diy/">DIY project</A>! 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