Tom Sachs Brings Boombox Culture Back to the Brooklyn Museum

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8 жыл бұрын

The Brooklyn retrospective covers 17 years of the artist's career, but he has been making boomboxes for much longer; the New York creative warmly recalls trading his sister's boyfriend a copy of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti for a stolen car stereo. If you're feeling adventurous, you can purchase a DIY zine from an ATM attached to Sach's Bodega that dates the beginning of his obsession to 1981: "I hooked my Sony Walkman up to a set of mini speakers and Velcroed them to a block of plywood. It was a clusterfuck of wires." The Bodega is a boombox too, of course.
The collection showcases Sachs' balance of obsessive attention to detail and an irreverent sense of humor: one speaker has a perfect recreation of the Chanel monogram alongside the word "Pussy" written in Sachs' signature scrawl; a Courvoisier bottle in Presidential Vampire Booth 's bar has been Wited-Out to read Corbusier.
HYPEBEAST caught up with the artist to discuss how he got into boomboxes, how music informs his creative process, and how he and Frank Gehry feel about imitators.
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@arossmorales 7 жыл бұрын

Casey even emulates Tom's hairstyle. Loved what he said at the end though. Taking it to the next level.

@andybaldman Жыл бұрын

Sad that Casey has a million times the game and money, when he got much of his style from Tom.

@MrVisde 2 ай бұрын

“Frank Gehry once said to me…” is such a way to start a sentence 😂😂😂

@markysparks7436 7 жыл бұрын

Serious unique style. very inspirational. thanks for this video!

@sashasmith3764 8 жыл бұрын

Is this the guy casey neistat used to work for?

@MANNEN_ 8 жыл бұрын

yes

@PTabs88 8 жыл бұрын

You can tell how much his style influenced Casey

@TonyDAnnunzio 8 жыл бұрын

What job

@EuphoricSupply 8 жыл бұрын

Yup

@MrMilarepa108 8 жыл бұрын

and the student becomes the master... (just kidding, Tom is #1)

@BoChosen 8 жыл бұрын

Dope!

@PHASE_4 5 жыл бұрын

total agreement right here

@kaiwright5250 3 жыл бұрын

“Elevate everything”

@Vempsterful 8 жыл бұрын

This is the only guy I have seemed to of seen on the internet with the same glasses as me, curse !

@joedkat 8 жыл бұрын

seemed to have seen*

@pete6095 8 жыл бұрын

What glasses are they? 😂

@Vempsterful 8 жыл бұрын

pete I have Marc Joseph 4149 Crystal. Looking at this again I think he might have different ones, but both are relatively the same.

@ectomania 5 жыл бұрын

Tom throwing subliminals at Casey

@TheBaawws 8 жыл бұрын

Look it's an older casey neistat

@klebfg9537 8 жыл бұрын

Casey worked for Tom

@TheBaawws 8 жыл бұрын

+klebfg9537 i know, i watched casey's "Draw My Life"

@MrMilarepa108 8 жыл бұрын

Who else here did NOT come here because of Casey Neistat, but learned about Casey through Tom Sachs, the grandmaster of bricolage and emperor of Mars? With all due respect to Mr. Neistat, but they are not playing in the same league.

@tomsmith8453 6 жыл бұрын

came here cause of Frank Ocean

@bluebaconjake405 3 жыл бұрын

Came from nike craft while researching for a university project lol. And realized that he’s the one who made the boombox from frank ocean’s endless

@rickygunawan435 8 жыл бұрын

What the name of this music

@EnrichmentTV 7 жыл бұрын

"Make It Clear" by Enrichment. You can hear more tracks on Soundcloud under EnrichmentNJ.

@bluemccoy1676 8 жыл бұрын

Hes on neistat brothers

@Mcm4 Жыл бұрын

“I hate it when people leave me and then do what I do, and do it worse. I hate it“ Shots fired at Casey Neistat

@StudioMagnetique 11 ай бұрын

He’s quoting someone else. If you listen to the whole section, it actually sounds like he’s saying quite the opposite… that art is a ‘family line’ and that Tom himself loves when people leave and do better. Personally, I love watching Casey and Van through the eyes of someone who was into Tom first, it’s almost an extension of his life’s work. It’s beautiful.