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Rock’n Rolls: Retro Toilet Paper Roll Holder Radios

Don't touch that dial... these weird 70s bathroom music machines combined the utility of a toilet paper roll holder with the sweet sound of an AM radio. Audio Waste Land A visit to one's ...

Musical Fonts: Handwriting of Cobain, Lennon & Bowie Turned into Free Typefaces

Resurrecting the signature writing styles of famous musicians and songwriters, this series of downloadable typefaces puts the unique scrawls of performers passed in the palm of your hand(-held ...

Architecture in Motion: Gothic Cathedral Gets its Own Two-Minute Music Video

We tend to experience buildings as static or slow-moving objects relative to our own points of view, but this simple work of creative adaptation turns an ordinary perspective into a dynamic ...

The Apprehension Engine: Machine Makes Disturbing Horror Movie Music

Is this the most terrifying musical instrument ever made? If you just take a quick glance at it, you’ll likely say no - it’s an unassuming (albeit rather strange) jumble of strings, rods, ...

Guitar for Modern Nomads: This Digital Instrument is Designed to Travel

What if you were to eliminate the unwieldy parts of a guitar but maintain its resonant sound and the same exact way of playing, in order to make the instrument are more convenient traveling ...

Last Dance: A Dozen Hustled & Bustled Abandoned Discos

Disco ducks and dancing queens can no longer shake their booties since these dozen decrepit abandoned discotheques took down their mirror balls. The 1970s haven't aged well and the ...

The ‘90s Are Calling: How to Hack a Payphone into a Boombox

When you pick up this bright yellow receiver, you won’t hear a dial tone on the other end - what’s waiting for you instead is some of the worst music the 1990s had to offer. The ‘90s are ...

Black Rock City’s Biggest Art Car: Converted 747 Lands at Burning Man

  A temporary metropolis for tens of thousands built annually in Nevada's remote Black Rock Desert, the Burning Man festival is famous for its extreme architecture and creative art cars, ...

Pavement Bowie: 20 Street Art Tributes to David Bowie

Ashes to ashes, Stardust to dust: having left life's stage, cultural icon David Bowie also leaves behind a global imprint through street art and graffiti. ...

Sound Sculptures: Music Translated Into Transforming Objects

An experiment in intentional synesthesia, this combination of sculpture, music and technology enables us to actually see the physical form of individual songs. ‘Reify’ is a collaborative ...

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