Play the New York subway like an instrument
Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Pulling from the MTA’s actual subway data, trains pluck at intersecting lines.
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Matryoshka knives
I am normally immune to high-design tomfoolery, but if I lived in a universe where I could justify spending hundreds of dollars on a set of nesting kitchen knives, I would snap these up in a second.
Boston vintage printshop equipment bonanza
Last summer, the city of Boston’s North Street municipal print shop was closed down. Now, the contents of the shop, which served the city for 78 years, are going up on the auction block. From Boston.com:
Apartment covered in 25,000 ping pong balls
Apartment covered in 25,000 ping pong balls… A pied-Ã -terre as permanent residence, Box/Box is an apartment for Snarkitecture partner Daniel Arsham. A 90 square foot private hideaway contained within a larger 2,500 square foot collaborative workspace, the project was conceived as an accelerated design/build experiment and was completed within a two-month period at a cost […]
Hubcap viperfish
We have actually covered the work of British hubcap sculptor Ptolemy Elrington a couple times before (see below), but I couldn’t resist posting again when I saw this viperfish sculpture, which appears among others in a gallery at The Telegraph.
My thought for the day? Viperfish are awesome. That is all.
Sequence of Waves show in Greenpoint Brooklyn Saturday 1/29
Gamelatron and other projects by MAKE friends such as Ranjit Bhatnagar and Gaylen Hamilton are filling the old St. Cecilia convent in Greenpoint Brooklyn with sound, visual, and multi-media art this weekend: Rabid Hands is pleased to present Sequence of Waves, the collective’s inaugural sound, visual and multi-media art exhibition. The exhibition is open to […]
24-hour sky panorama
Laboriously captured by photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos on December 30-31, 2010, from the ruins of the ancient Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Greece. Technical details at Earth Science Picture of the Day, and a more personal perspective at Chris’s Greek Sky Forum. [via Gizmodo]
