April 2011
32 posts
Beyond beautiful.
Air Piano! A Theremin-esque controller for the new millennium. Plus bonus witchy mini-music video! I want to live in what looks like her living room.
The other side of the Grain Terminal, Red Hook,...
But the New Past gives us hope. It stands before us in a nearly unfaded...
– Steven Millhauser, “Here at the Historical Society”
New Jesu
Courtesy of BrooklynVegan
Have your black forest cake and eat it too. →
via Warren Ellis
Commodify Your Dissent →
claytoncubitt:
“As existential rebellion has become a more or less official style of Information Age capitalism, so has the countercultural notion of a static, repressive Establishment grown hopelessly obsolete. However the basic impulses of the countercultural idea may have disturbed a nation lost in Cold War darkness, they are today in fundamental agreement with the basic tenets of Information...
Paper Record Player →
The sound may be far from listenable but yet another, awesome lo-tech, hi-concept example of human ingenuity.
“From now on all my possessions are to be just in relation to photography—the rest—even things I love, concrete things—I shall lead them through a metamorphosis—from the concrete turn them into abstract things…and thus I can go on owning them in my heart forever.”
—Tina Modotti in a letter to Edward Weston, February 1926
LEGO 4X5 CAMERA! →
Holee shit. This works on many levels: madcap, thrifty, and artistic. Another example of how you don’t need money just ingenuity to make a good image.
via Conscientious