I was at the thrift store the other day, and they had a big box of brand new cassette tapes. No label or anything. And the plastic looked new as well. They were 2 for $1. So I bought a couple.
My daughter and I have talked about cassette tapes, but you know what? She's never seen one in person until the other day. I explained to her how they work, and you had to eject the cassette and flip it over to play the other side. Or how the tabs on top were a simple way of write protection, but masking tape would solve it. And since it's magnetic tape, any magnet would ruin the music or recordings.
She thought technology was pretty fragile. No magnets, or the sun can warp a vinyl record for example.
Her latest (and last for the school year) photography assignment is "shadows." I thought a picture of the cassette tape being overshadowed by something like an MP3 player, or her phone, would make a nice picture. But she had different ideas.
It was just funny to me, that she'd never seen a cassette tape before. But honestly, I don't have a CD player anywhere, let alone a cassette tape player.
My daughter and I have talked about cassette tapes, but you know what? She's never seen one in person until the other day. I explained to her how they work, and you had to eject the cassette and flip it over to play the other side. Or how the tabs on top were a simple way of write protection, but masking tape would solve it. And since it's magnetic tape, any magnet would ruin the music or recordings.
She thought technology was pretty fragile. No magnets, or the sun can warp a vinyl record for example.
Her latest (and last for the school year) photography assignment is "shadows." I thought a picture of the cassette tape being overshadowed by something like an MP3 player, or her phone, would make a nice picture. But she had different ideas.
It was just funny to me, that she'd never seen a cassette tape before. But honestly, I don't have a CD player anywhere, let alone a cassette tape player.