Jeffrey Brown designed a transforming vinyl toy based on his ‘Change Bots’ book.
You don't see too many independent transformer designers.
Category: Delicious
The Whitburn Project Analysis.
Waxy discusses and mines an obsessively detailed dump of pop chart metadata. Unhealthily time-intensive coding ideas: sparked.
Emitt Rhodes’ Self-titled 1970 LP posted in full.
One of my favorites, not currently in print.
The short premiered at TAL's distributed 'live event' in movie theaters nationwide last week. The story is told by Radio Lab's Robert Krulwich.
Instant Album Party ’08 bears fruit.
The results of randomly selected groups of four people tasked with writing and recording a song in an hour.
Nintendo DS game that transfers user-created levels via sound files.
The DS has wifi so this method seems like an unnecessary gimmick until you take into account sharing the sound files online. Only out in Japan thus far, but there's already some level-swap activity on youtube.
An antique precursor to those annoying children’s books with push-button sound effects.
The sounds are produced via miniature bellows and paper cones. I had no idea such things existed.
Sculpture with carefully placed perferations reveals different stanzas of a poem based on the position of the sun.
Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru Action Figures.
The best Star Wars figures ever.
YouTube: Evolution of Maroon 5’s “Makes Me Wonder.”
I'm pretty ambivalent about Maroon 5, but I think it's interesting that they're willing to publicly release footage of themselves being so negative about the song. This is some great behind the scenes studio production footage.