Month: April 2008

Instant Album Party ’08 bears fruit.

The results of randomly selected groups of four people tasked with writing and recording a song in an hour.

Nintendo DS game that transfers user-created levels via sound files.

The DS has wifi so this method seems like an unnecessary gimmick until you take into account sharing the sound files online. Only out in Japan thus far, but there's already some level-swap activity on youtube.

An antique precursor to those annoying children’s books with push-button sound effects.

The sounds are produced via miniature bellows and paper cones. I had no idea such things existed.

The odds of my reacting positively to works of art involving both the words ‘poetry’ and ‘solstice’ are usually extremely low. This is the exception.

Sculpture with carefully placed perferations reveals different stanzas of a poem based on the position of the sun.

Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru Action Figures.

The best Star Wars figures ever.