Archive | July, 2009
Fresh Stuff Zec Crew in in Ljubljana
We love the idea behind Zek Crew’s custom teaser posters made for Trnfest 2009 – the popular music and arts festival in Ljubljana.
More here.
Wonderfl Physical Computing
Any of you out there who are code-minded may have come across wonderfl. Its something I’ve wanted to play with for a while, and now there is another great reason.
Wonderfl is (was) a web-based flash development environment. Perhaps that might sound a bit dull… not the case . The idea is: you type [...]
Nomad – Live From Berlin
From our friend Just comes the live image above of a new mural being painted by Nomad in Berlin.
Catchin’ Up With Club Animals
“the free bouncy rides are going pretty good. of course giving them on the subway platforms in the summer heat is tough but the smiles i see on the people’s faces and the pictures that i get keep me going for the hour. needless to say i stink pretty bad when i get home with the soaked mascot costume.
my brand new project, the “candy crack delivery service”, is a new thing where i personally hand deliver a 100 % sugar fake crack rock to people’s houses in the brooklyn areas of williamsburg and greenpoint. i’m going to be doing it twice a month on the weekend. i make the crack from broken sugar cubes and then color and flavor them with snow cone syrup and then drop them in a little crack bag which goes for $1
per bag.
the first delivery I had last weekend was very scary because I didn’t know what to expect. i burst in the guy’s front door and started running around his apartment like a stunned boxer or a scared bee. i rushed the sale and got out of there as soon as i could. later i realized how weird i acted and laughed. later in the evening i got a second call to a party where i delivered some candy crack to a couple girls. they were cool and i think we’re going to become friends. the next time i’m doing it is Saturday August 8th.”…. Club Animals
Robo-Bricky
In Fläsch, the winegrowers Martha and Daniel Gantenbein took advantage of the success of their Pinot Noir to replace their steel containers with oak barrels. They commissioned the architects Bearth & Deplazes with the design and construction of a new fermentation hall for twelve new containers. A wine-tasting lounge was to be located one floor [...]
Games of Chance – D. Graham Burnett
In the earliest laboratory notebooks, the wall-mounted mechanism shown in this image was simply called “the pinball machine.” In the published output of the research program of which it was a part, it went by the more dignified appellation Random Mechanical Cascade, yielding a catchy acronym: RMC. Around the lab, however, the device was known affectionately as Murphy, since if anything could go wrong, it would.
In a way, of course, this was exactly the point: the whole system—the nine thousand polystyrene balls dropping through a pegboard of 330 precisely cantilevered nylon pins, the real-time photoelectric counters tallying (by LED readout) the segmented heaps forming below, the perennially balky bucket-conveyor for resetting an experimental run—had all been painstakingly constructed and calibrated in order first to exemplify, and then to defy, what the Victorian statistician Francis Galton dubbed the “Law of Frequency of Error."
Roll Playing – Jeff Dolven
Sixty-four pages into his 1930 manifesto of rhythmic experimentation, New Musical Resources, the composer and music theorist Henry Cowell made a passing suggestion about how his more extravagant ideas might be realized: “Some of the rhythms developed through the present acoustical investigation could not be played by any living performer; but these highly engrossing rhythmical complexes could easily be cut on a player piano roll.”1 As far as we know, only one man took him up on the proposal, an expat American card-carrying communist jazz trumpeter and polyrhythmic prodigy named Conlon Nancarrow. But this man made it his life’s work.
“Autopsy Of A Large Animal On A Unknown Planet.
Artists: Laguna and Axel_void
Location: Almagro, Spain
Size: 6,5 meters x 20 meters