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The Boombox Project by Lyle Owerko

Regular readers of Lifelounge would be familiar with the works of the very talented Canadian born, now New York photographer Lyle Owerko. Earlier this year we featured his East African electronic market series entitled Radio Simba in the Food Edition of Lifelounge Magazine. He's recently updated his website with a series of images documenting some of the iconic vintage boomboxes from the 80s that helped to define popular culture of a generation. Amazing machines and amazing images. Check out samples from the series below and for more of Lyle Owerko's genius, visit his blog here or website here.


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'12' comment(s) have been made
True Respect
Gold!

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:56:21 PM

True Advanced Member
They're beautiful.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:58:44 PM

False Respect
One day I'd like to see some appreciation for the faux boombox, my sister and I had a not-so-ghetto blaster that had lame pretendy graffiti on it and a double cassette! Double! We could tape Rhythm Nation for all our friends. Shit was off the chain.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:27:01 PM

True Respect
Did it have high-speed dubbing? Had to have high-speed dubbing...

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:47:30 PM

False Respect
Of course. It was a genius piece of technology.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:53:12 PM

True Advanced Member
Boomboxes = rad to the maximum. Totally Classic.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:14:11 PM

True New Lounger
I can't believe i had the same one as The Boombox Project - 11 back in '83. I was 13 and used to think i was the coolest walking to school with it on my shoulder...

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:02:17 PM

False New Lounger
hell good!!

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:52:43 AM

False New Lounger
Those were the days - When audio equipment companies like Sony actually sold you equipment to copy tape-to-tape (dual cassette) as a -feature-. Now they cripple their hardware and plant PC disabling software in their CDs and charge for the pleasure!

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:39:12 PM

True Advanced Member
Like his style... I still remember the tapes, they were great! This is part of history!

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:37:14 AM

True Respect
Just ordered a boom box 2 finger ring, can't wait to sport it.

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:59:32 AM

False New Lounger
boombox are classic!

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:56:40 PM


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