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Jupiter 8 vs Felt vs Skateboard = very cool

Submitted by on August 20, 2009 – 11:54 pm One Comment

Back in April, I wrote about a textile artist from Australia named pul(sew)idth.  She had created some really nice re-creations of classic analog synths as felt pillows.  Well, I’ve found a few more up on her photostream, and when I saw the following creation, I knew that just had to share it with you.  It’s a Jupiter 8 skateboard made out of felt.

Here is a closer shot showing some detail:

And closer still…

Very cool, isn’t it? Here are a few others – first, a Hammod B3 (complete with Leslie!):

Juno 106:

Yamaha CS-70m:

… and one of my all-time favorite monosynths, the SH-101 in grey:

… red:

… and blue!

Beautiful. You can actually buy these from her Etsy shop here. Be the only kid on the block with a jupiter 8 skateboard-pillow!

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