“In December 2001, while on assignment in Tokyo, the photographer Lyle Owerko came across a funky old boombox at an outdoor market. He was struck by its bulk and intrigued by its link to a vanished New York of break dancing and graffiti, and as soon as he returned home to New York he began scouring flea markets and eBay for more of them. Blog ArtsBeat The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. More Arts News “That’s when the obsession started,” he said recently at his TriBeCa studio, where dozens of the machines, covered in protective Bubble Wrap, were piled in a corner.” (via Celebrating Boomboxes, the ‘Instant Parties’ of the ’80s)

“In December 2001, while on assignment in Tokyo, the photographer Lyle Owerko came across a funky old boombox at an outdoor market. He was struck by its bulk and intrigued by its link to a vanished New York of break dancing and graffiti, and as soon as he returned home to New York he began scouring flea markets and eBay for more of them. Blog ArtsBeat The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. More Arts News “That’s when the obsession started,” he said recently at his TriBeCa studio, where dozens of the machines, covered in protective Bubble Wrap, were piled in a corner.”

(via Celebrating Boomboxes, the ‘Instant Parties’ of the ’80s)