Should I cover a wall with vinyl records, if so.. What should I use to put them on the wall? And they shouldn't cause noise distortion, should they?
you should be able to buy transparent "sleeves" that you can hang on the wall - mine store 4 records, vertically. Looks beautiful.
This is the 21st century. Cover your wall with iPods. (broken 1st gen ones off of eBay to keep costs down) It'll absolutely blow people's minds.
Personally, I wouldn't do that. Scanning a cover, printing it in a larger format and frame it: yes. But putting vinyls, figures comics or whatever on the wall seems so juvenile to me After I had read the title of this thread, I thought you were considering to built a shelf to cover one entire wall with vinyls. That would look absolutely awesome, but the collection needs to embrace at least 3000-5000 vinyls to fill it, depending on the size of the wall. :crying:
I made a little coffee table out of old cassettes. It is fucking rad - but I could have made a better one if I had a better acrylic tabletop - like those pink ones that look fluorescent. I want to make a lamp with old vinyl covers and red bull cans, but I haven't gotten off my lazy arse to make the mechanism.
I say decorate without destroying someone's art. My brother has "picture frames" that are made for putting records into. Not almost-free, but they look great and don't screw anything up.
A good example (if an overexpensive one) are these: http://www.firebox.com/product/1368/Album-Art-Frame?via=ser
No you want to store them vertically. Gravity likes to warp things. And by vertical, I mean exactly vertical, ideally.
No, vinyl should ideally be stored straight up. Also, laying them flat gives rise to stacking them on top of each other, squishing covers and distorting the vinyl.
Ideally they should be contained in a zero g chamber with complete darkness. Usually what I tend to do with my vinyls is take a large tupperware tub and fly into space and sort of scoop up space into my tub. The key is to put the lid on really quick so space doesn't get out. When you descend back to earth, make sure you enter the atmosphere at one of the poles where it's not as hot. When I get back home it's just a matter of shoving the the vinyls into the tub quickly before too much space seeps out.
i just order space in a can, it's the easier way to do it. Some would argue that because it's artifical space pressure (or ASP as those in the Zero-G community call it) it's effect won't be as great as authentic space. But I can't tell the difference, in fact science supports that the human ear can't tell the difference between natural space and space in a can. but you've always been a purist Jon.
