Here’s a fun giggle-modded camera from 1932 – Party Fun With This FREAK Camera IF YOU are looking for something different in party entertainment, perhaps a freak camera similar to that shown here will help. This camera started life as a store box. A little paint and a trimming of lantern-slide tape transformed it into […]
Classic Arcade Game Locations makes it easy to find old-school arcade games: Welcome to the largest collection of places that still have classic video arcade games to play. If you walk into arcades today only to walk back out because they do not have any of the old games you loved, then perhaps you can […]
Joey deVilla has posted some closeup pictures of the Lisp Machine that he donated to HackLabTO: The keyboard is bristling with modifier keys. Yes, we’ve all got shift and control, but most of us don’t have hyper, super, and meta keys. I have a guess as to what the network and local keys do. HackLabTO’s […]
Metal Web News is not much to look at, but it’s an absolute teasure-trove for metalsmiths, welders, casters, and blacksmiths. Also home of the venerable Usenet Metalworking FAQ. I’m not a metalworker, so I can’t judge the veracity of the material, but it sure seems wide-reaching and appears infinitely useful. Metal Web News
Syracuse, NY pottery and ceramics artist Tim See is enamored with the iron pipes, boilers, rivets and bolts, gauges and levers of steam-age technology. He incorporates all of this into his clay creations. They look so real, you almost forget that they don’t work like the devices they’re meant to evoke. Tim See Clay
racketboy has posted an inspiring personal reflection from Zen Albatross on how Mario Paint changed his life (emphasis added): Little did I know that this 5.5″ cartridge (and the mouse peripheral that came with it) would essentially be the foundation of my creative career. Before Photoshop, before Paint, before I had ever even used a […]
Featured at the 1939 World’s Fair, the Voder (Voice Operating DEmonstratoR) from Bell Laboratories created vocal sounds via dedicated noise and tone generating vacuum tubes. These sounds were formed into words by the hand of a specially trained operator seated at the Voder’s interface. In aninterview with CMJ, electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos explains in […]
