Recycled Cassette Tape Necktie (Awesome of the Day)

Alyce Santoro and Julio Cesar have found a use for all those old cassettes taking up space in our attics—turn the magnetic into fabric and make lovely neckties. This half-thread/half-tape combination is “actually audible if you run a tape head over it,” according to Santoro, the founder of the Center for the Improbable & (Im)permacultural Research, and the recording on the tie is off her album of found street sounds called Between Stations she recorded in New York before moving to West Texas.

“The idea behind the tie,” she writes, “is that the wearer becomes a beacon for other-dimensional, intangible, subtle forces of good…much in the manner of a superhero. only this part of the superhero garb can be worn on the outside in the most conservative environment without detection!”

A video of the antique loom in a New England manufacturing plant that was used to make the special fabric can be seen on YouTube.

The skinny ties are available in dark brown, light gray, and black for $90 at SuperMarketHQ.com