Monthly Archives: June 2010
Look at this lovely old book that I bought! It’s an old tube radio manual, and it’s full of great stuff. The illustrations are perfectly old-fashioned and painstakingly hand-drawn. I like it. It bears a lot of similarity to the Radio Handbook that I also own. In fact, I bought both of them from Eliot’s [...]
It makes me feel important.
Check out Rob Seward’s latest work, a book entitled Death Death Death. It’s an algorithmically generated book wherein association trees are used to link sequences of words the root word, death. The associations get pretty weird and interesting after a while, as you can see in the video. It’s been nominated for the FILE Prix [...]
Possibly the most common complaint that one hears about classical music is that it’s boring. To many people, classical music is something that they hear occasionally in the dentist’s office or in the soundtrack to a dusty period film with a lot of corsets and talking. Flipping through radio stations, they hastily pass by the [...]
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Like I said, GIMME. via hackaday
For those of you that play guitar or are into the manic shredding stylings of Steve Vai, you might be familiar with this guitar: The hole in the body there is a handle. A while ago I got my hands on an old beat-up classical guitar and messed around with it a bit, namely adding [...]
‘Swarm Light’ LED Display