Throughout history, music has played an important role in our social, political, and religious rituals. It’s been used to express the most elusive of emotions and situations: love and loss, conquest and oppression, joy and mourning. You name it, there’s a piece of music that will fit it. And now, the music can fit you: Alyce Santoro has created a series of products that allow you to wear your music and listen to your clothes.
Now midlife crises don’t have to be quite as expensive. Ron Champion’s cult classic, Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250, has spawned a host of clubs devoted to doing just that.
Back as far as 400 BC, catapults were used to hurl the vilest of projectiles: rocks, arrows, cow manure. But perhaps the most notorious missile of all may be … the fruitcake.
Finally, you can recharge your iPod with Clif bars.
Artist David Best is known for his gigantic temple installations at Burning Man in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert; his latest was 115 feet tall, a quarter mile long, and visited by thousands.
Kyle writes – “A port of an Atari 2600 emulator to the Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment. This means that the Atari 2600 emulation parameters can be manipulated in a nearly infinite number of ways, producing Max/MSP/Jitter-based visuals with the 2600 aesthetic. Being within Jitter, the pixels generated from the Atari 2600 can be mapped to different types of surfaces, stretched, and zoomed. The audio output can be captured and manipulated by MSP as well.” Link.
And a discourse on blind men, chipmunks, whales, and the future.
