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two classics for your listening pleasure...
make your own cloud chamber
instructions here and here and here
british road signs
how much lipstick in a litstick?
the house of the future [past]...
designed by finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968
20 Futuro houses were built before the 1973 oil crisis spoiled it all. read more here
why does the baby cry?
what does the unit analyse?
• babies crying power
• frequencies of cry
• crying intervals
• associates baby's cry with an established pattern programmed into unit
hmmm... more here
parler vous...
interactive light
Violet's Dal light can be programmed to change color according to the email messages it receives or the weather or pollution levels in paris.... by way of reluct
hmm i have seen this before somewhere....
oh yes here [tsk tsk]
eye jewel
The eye jewel, made of platinum and available in the shape of a heart, a star or circle, is implanted under the cornea of the eye and is not visible unless the eye is turned. The procedure costs 500 euros.
more here
your own handwriting on your computer
the origin of the the wire coat hanger
"in response to co-workers’ complaints of too few coat hooks, and in a burst of inventive inspiration, albert j parkhouse bent a piece of wire into two ovals with the ends twisted together to form a hook." more here
by way of thingsmagazine
home-made
traditionalfolkart is committed to continuing the tradition of american handmade folk art, furniture and fine crafts...
by morna crites-moore
pseudo-events flood our consciousness
A pseudo-event, then, is a happening that possesses the following characteristics:
(1) It is not spontaneous, but comes about because someone has planned, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.
(2) It is planted primarily (not always exclusively) for the immediate purpose of being reported or reproduced. Therefore, its occurrence is arranged for the convenience of the reporting or reproducing media. Its success is measured by how widely it is reported. Time relations in it are commonly fictitious or factitious; the announcement is given out in advance "for future release" and written as if the event had occurred in the past. The question, "Is it real?" is less important than, "Is it newsworthy?"
(3) Its relation to the underlying reality of the situation is ambiguous. Its interest arises largely from this very ambiguity. Concerning a pseudo-event the question, "What does it mean?" has a new dimension. While the news interest in a train wreck is in what happened and in the real consequences, the interest in an interview is always, in a sense, in whether it really happened and in what might have been the motives. Did the statement really mean what it said? Without some of this ambiguity a pseudo-event cannot be very interesting.
(4) Usually it is intended to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The hotel's thirtieth-anniversary celebration, by saying that the hotel is a distinguished institution, actually makes it one.
Daniel Boorstin from The Image (New York: Vintage, 1961)
!#* crackle... *!
in the 1970'es 4000 crackleboxes were built and sold by STEIM
find them here again
questions
Anderson and Heap editors of the 'Little review' wrote this questionnaire in 1929 one month before the stock market crash and sent it to every artist, intellectual, and public figure they could contact:
1. What should you most like to do, to know, to be? (In case you are not satisfied.)
2. Why wouldn't you change places with any other human being?
3. What do you look forward to?
4. What do you fear most from the future?
5. What has been the happiest moment of your life? The unhappiest? (If you care to tell.)
6. What do you consider your weakest characteristic? Your strongest? What do you like most about yourself? Dislike most?
7. What things do you really like? Dislike? (Nature, people, ideas, objects, etc. Answer in a phrase or a page, as you will.)
8. What is your attitude toward art to-day?
9. What is your world view? (Are you a reasonable being in a reasonable scheme?)
10. Why do you go on living?
read more here
cross stitching anyone?
turning scanned photographs into cross stiches
or this one
sonic fabric
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"I became inspired to marry these concepts by creating a fabric imbued with sonic potential, woven from cassette tapes onto which thoughtful intentions, music, and ambient nature sounds had been recorded."
by alyce santoro
cells make sounds
"The frequency of the yeast cells the researchers tested has always been in the same high range, about a C-sharp to D above middle C in terms of music"
phenomena
the electronic skirt
i began studying electricity at seven
The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
At a surrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara the man from nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat. A riot ensued wrecked the theater. André Breton expelled Tristan Tzara from the movement and grounded the cut-ups on the Freudian couch.
[snip]
The method is simple. Here is one way to do it. Take a page. Like this page. Now cut down the middle and cross the middle. You have four sections: 1 2 3 4 . . . one two three four. Now rearrange the sections placing section four with section one and section two with section three. And you have a new page. Sometimes it says much the same thing. Sometimes something quite different—cutting up political speeches is an interesting exercise—in any case you will find that it says something and something quite definite. Take any poet or writer you fancy. Here, say, or poems you have read over many times. The words have lost meaning and life through years of repetition. Now take the poem and type out selected passages. Fill a page with excerpts. Now cut the page. You have a new poem. As many poems as you like. As many Shakespeare Rimbaud poems as you like. Tristan Tzara said: “Poetry is for everyone.” And André Breton called him a cop and expelled him from the movement. Say it again: “Poetry is for everyone.” Poetry is a place and it is free to all cut up Rimbaud and you are in Rimbaude is a Rimbaud poem cut up.
William S. Burroughs cut from textz.com
i love html colours
thethingasitis
by michael atavar
eggs & welder's torch
(Studio experiment) 1998 by ben woodeson
let us descibe
Let us describe how they went. It was a very windy night and the road although in excellent condition and extremely well graded has many turnings and although the curves are not sharp the rise is considerable. It was a very windy night and some of the larger vehicles found it more prudent not to venture. In consequence some of those who had planned to go were unable to do so. Many others did go and there was a sacrifice, of what shall we, a sheep, a hen, a cock, a village, a ruin, and all that and then that having been blessed let us bless it.
gertrude stein reads from ubuweb:sound
the museum of temporary art
replace the exhibits and keep the exhibition alive!
from webzen
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