“Lazy Sunday Afternoon” – A portrait of making
Brandon Bird’s “Lazy Sunday Afternoon” via Laughing Squid. I think this a new trend, great art of people making things, some of them might be Christopher Walken making a robot.
Culture jamming
Musical Japanese road
Here’s a road in Japan with grooves cut to different widths to create a melody as a car drives over them. Only in Japan… (Thanks Dan and Carlo!) Melodic highway.
Slow made – take it easy…
From MAKE 13 Welcome – Slow made – take it easy… by Dale Dougherty. This magazine explores not just how to make things but also why. Why make things when you can buy them? Why spend hours on a project when you could be doing something else? Why? I have often referenced cooking when explaining […]
Skullphone billboard (not hacking)
Wow, someone may have figured out how to change the giant digital billboards in LA… via F.A.T., Anti-Advertising Agency & Supertouch have more.. Turns out, by “figuring out how = paying” — not interesting, not a hack, not Billboard Liberation… Right now the enigma that is known only as SKULLPHONE is easily Clear Channel Communications’ […]
Billboard Liberation Front’s talk at Vooruit, Ghent
Regine’s write up from the Billboard Liberation Front’s talk at Vooruit, Ghent. A lot of great history and insight in to this group – via Beyond the Beyond. “Improving outdoor advertising since 1977” is the catchphrase of the Billboard Liberation Front. The idea is simple: by making small adjustments to billboards, the BLF creates ironic […]
Decode code 39 barcodes manually
Davis Remmel writes: Code 39 is easy to recreate because it only uses two types of lines: wide and narrow. Also, each code has a beginning sequence (thin black, wide white, thin black), and an ending sequence (thin black, wide white, thin black, thin white, wide black, thin white, wide black, thin white, thin black.) […]
Billboard Liberation Front talk
Over at we make money not art, Regine has an article about a recent talk given by the Billboard Liberation Front at The Game is Up! Festival in Ghent. Billboard Liberation Front’s talk at Vooruit, Ghent
