Gaming & Culture

The Point at Which Floppy Discs Have No Other Use Than Arts and Crafts

By Allie Townsend | @Allie_Townsend | January 27, 2010 | +

English artist Nick Gentry makes use of basically obsolete tech dinosaurs the floppy disc and VHS tape in this pretty rad collection of paintings.

The best part: Most of these are for sale at a pretty decent price. (Check out more at nickgentry.co.uk.)

This really makes my VHS bookends feel artistically inferior… Anyone out there have any good uses for recycled hardware?

(via Neatorama (via Twisted Sifter))

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  • tereglith

    Ha! The point in the title has not been reached – floppies are the only way for my grandma’s computer to communicate with an other computer via my family’s XP CPU which has a floppy drive. So they still have a use.

    VHS does, too, if you ever want to watch Song of the South.

    These are pretty cool, though.

  • http://imppaul.wordpress.com imppaul

    Good grief, man! I suppose you can’t really be called a Luddite, since I know people who have never owned a computer of any sort (shocking but true).
    But it’s the 21st Century! Move out of the last millennium already! ;)

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