Christopher Locke created The Analog Tele-Phonographer, a mobile phone sound amplifier made using a broken trumpet:
This device was made from a salvaged trumpet and assorted machine parts. The base is steel, the legs that hold everything up are stainless steel, and the cradle that holds the telephone is also steel. The horn is brass. All of the steel has been treated with a brown patina, and the entire unit has been coated with a gloss ...
Kim Si Nae‘s Browser Abstract…
Citizens of the world are spending their lives staring into the reflective surfaces of their mobile phones and desktop computers. I think that social context determines the value of the media, tendency itself of dispaying medium have to ...
Microworld: William Shatners psychedelic 1976-Minidoc about Microprocessors
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Japanese photographer Sohei Nishino walks around cities taking pictures and pasting and arranging the results to create layered icons of a city from his memory. He has mapped Istanbul, Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka and London.
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This is what I call a statement. By Jaakko Pallasvuo…
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Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof attempts to sum up the show in one tweet…
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Let’s celebrate together with this awesome surreal karaoke videoart by Ben Coonley….
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No description would be accurate. You just have to click play…
Blake Carrington turns Gothic cathedrals into sound:
“Groups of scanners filling the sonic spectrum may act in synch, forming a single harmonically-dense rhythm, or they may scan the plans at different speeds, resulting in complex polyrhythms. Each plan is treated as a modular score, with a distinct rhythm and timbre of its own. Also, by varying the speed and intensity of each scanning group, drone-like sounds may emerge based on the ‘resonant frequency’ of the ...
Postcards from Google Earth, by Clement Valla:
‘The images are screenshots from Google Earth with basic color adjustments and cropping. I am collecting these new typologies as a means of conservation – as Google Earth improves its 3D models, its terrain, and its satellite imagery, these strange, surrealist depictions of our built environment and its relation to the natural landscape will disappear in favor of better illusionistic imagery. However, I think these strange mappings of the 2-dimensional ...
Yuri Zupancic says his microchip paintings are an homage to the tradition of miniature painting, informed by the “smaller and faster…catchphrase of commodities.” He makes some of his brushes from his own eyelashes.
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Before Brian De Palma became a movie director he made documentaries. This one is called “The Responsive Eye” and chronicles the Museum Of Modern Art’s 1965 exhibition of Op-Art…
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