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We are Hacks – Live music & visuals @ HOPE

We are Hacks – Live music & visuals @ HOPE

Peter Kirn of createdigitalmusic/createdigitalmotion is curating the A/V performance lineup @ the soon-to-be-now Hackers On Planet Earth conference – live music: Ezekiel Honig (Anticipate/Microcosm founder) explores warmth in electro-acoustic music “into a comfortable space between techno, house and ambient” Ben Neill, “mad scientist of dancefloor jazz” (CMJ Magazine) continues to evolve live music with his […]

Rag and Bone bike

Rag and Bone bike

If bikes had a “rat king,” it might look something like this. I like the ornamental wheel on the front fork that has a fender going all around it. Not the most practical bike on the rack, but certainly the most unique. Rag and Bone bike on Rat Rod Bikes [via Brass Goggles]

Amazing steampunk mouse mod

Amazing steampunk mouse mod

By way of the Steampunk Workshop comes this incredible alt.victorian mouse, found on a Russian modder’s forum. I guess the caged innards are to house the mouse (of the biological kind) that powers the contraption. The occult symbols and incantations hammered into the brass are a nice touch. Steampunk mouse

Beer bottle blaster de art

Beer bottle blaster de art

This eye(and ear)-catching bottle cannon is on display as part of the SUPERDOME exhibition @ the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Regine from we make money not art shares details – Arcangelo Sassolino‘s Afasia 1 is a nitrogen-powered sculpture that shoots empty beer bottles, those icons of rock culture, against a wall at 600km/hr inside […]

More trees with eyes!

More trees with eyes!

Spotted in the comments of this earlier ‘seeing’ tree post – Rick Unger & Curt Wiebe created these ‘Arboreal Sentinels’ for the ’06 Winnipeg Folk Festival. As you can see from these photos, we came up with prosthetic appliances for the trees which contain a pair of eyes. Each eye is made from half of […]

Device interrupts you on cue

Device interrupts you on cue

This project called “The Interruptor” is part of the larger project, “Adventures in Urban Computing” from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The device interrupts you when you are speaking and then gives you prompts with its built in display. Check out the link for lots of pics of it in action. Adventures in […]