Posts I like
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In the paint booth working on this mappa burl snare.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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keep calm and carry on. (by br0-mantic)
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Unemployed librarian employs herself by collecting donated books and setting up make-shift libraries around Brooklyn. Proving that you may need a...
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19th Century hand made replica Army Snare. 16x16.
Submitted by: sendyourselfhome
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Dream Big
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Music Video of the Day: For their latest music video-slash-Chevy Super Bowl ad, OK Go drove down a two-mile stretch of desert lined with 1,000 instruments in a Chevy Sonic fitted with retractable pneumatic arms to perform a very complicated version of “Needing/Getting” that took four months to prep and four days to shoot.
[okgo.]
“Holy shit.” ~me, when I first saw the row of pianos. They’re the Evel Knievel of bands. Is “band” even the right word for what they are anymore? “Artists”? What amazing thing will they do next?
Social Media Explained (with donuts)
I’ve never seen this done with more deliberation, more exactitude, or more doughnuts. (Or, for the Twitter crowd, “donuts.”)
“The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year.”
“But if your child couldn’t handle Gammell’s paintings, they’re certainly not going to be able to stomach a short story about a scarecrow who skins a farmer alive and dries out his skin sack trophy on the roof.”
Early Bird Special: A NYC subway busker performs the hell out of Adele’s “Someone Like You.”
[refinery29 / thanks anon!]
Stick around for the end.
CrowdChoir is a potentially cool sampler instrument that is being crowdsourced. When you visit the site, it gives you a randomly generated guide pitch. You record yourself singing the note (using “Ahh”) for at least ten seconds and submit your file. Every participant gets the sampler for free.
We are going to build a unique sampler instrument—a choir/vocal ensemble made with hundreds of voices from all around the world. We need a a minimum of 2,000 notes to layer in the instrument, so please help us if you can. Everybody that sends us a recorded note will receive the CrowdChoir instrument free, in Kontakt/EXS & Ableton Live format. The project will run for 2 months, until March 31st 2012
