Tag: Artistic

Electronic Music Box Kit

OTOKIBAKOI can see something like this being hacked to become a MIDI input device.

OTOKIBAKO, an electronic music kit operated by turning the handle at the side, plays melodies by reading the black and white melody data sheet with light sensors. In addition, the special software "Melody Factory for OTOKIBAKO" enables you to create a melody data sheet of your own melody (with 3 octave range (C to B) including halftones)! 8 tones and 15 melodies are already installed. The wooden outer box projects a warm atmosphere and inspires you to paint on or carve pictures on to create your own OTOKIBAKO.

[via ektopia]
ELEKIT WEB World::BT-830 OTOKIBAKO

‘Moon Over Morocco’ Podcast, Theater of the Mind is Back!

Give your ears a treat an fill them up on some classic ZBS(wiki) goodness. If you have no idea what the hell ZBS or ‘Moon Over Morocco’ is you missing out. For years the ZBS Foundation has been producing amazingly well crafted radio dramas involving the bazaar, strange, and often times metaphysical. I’m a fan of the Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe and Travels with Jack Flanders series. If your looking for something different to do on a Saturday night I urge you to visit your personal theater of the mind and enjoy some of the offerings of ZBS. Remember, your imagination has the best special effects you will ever see plus an unlimited production budget. 🙂
[via Boing Boing]
Link to ZBS podcasts, Link to Moon Over Morocco
The ZBS Foundation

Beginner’s Bible Coloring Book! on Flickr

My old friend posted this to Flickr account recently. Damn, that guy has talent. I can’t wait to see the page on how Noah kept the dinoasurs from eating all the other critters on the ark. Pure joy!

Dad, did dinosaurs really exist?
Sure they did, son. The Bible says so. They didn’t call them "dinosaurs" back then, but instead they were known as "leviathans" or "behemoths".
 But, my science teacher says dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. Is that true?
Of course not, son.

Beginner’s Bible Coloring Book!

Originally uploaded by The Searcher

Gundam Invades Taiwan Lantern Festival

This is pretty amazing, I one day hope to see full sized mecha rolling down the street at the Rose Bowl parade or at east floating in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

As part of a celebration for the Lantern Festival, a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year, the Taiwanese district of Jiayi put up a 1:1 scale model of the original Gundam in lantern form. Traditionally, an animal lantern is used as the central display, but this year a competition was run and as you can see, the RX-78 Gundam lantern won out. Not that the citizens had any choice in the matter: paper sheets have never looked so formidable.

From Lonelocust I saw this link to a Chinese page where you can get construction pictures. Just click on the links and the photos will open.

[via lonelocust]
Gundam Lantern, 1:1 scale, lights up Taiwan lantern festival – Engadget

Pinhole Photo Gallery Selection Quandary

New perspectiveTemple of ApplePrickly foldsLightning storm via pinholeEating Lunch
My feet in the boatAll StopPlaygroundBrooklyn BridgeToys that don't last all summer long

I have a favor to ask of all the visitors to my site. I’ve been asked to show some of my pinhole photographs at a local gallery in a few months and I just can’t decide what photos to have framed and hang in the gallery. What I’d like for you to do is to have a look at the set and either send me an email or make a comment in Flickr and tell me just what ones should make the cut. I’ll post the results in a month or so so everyone has a bit of time. Thanks!
-John

Pinhole – a photoset on Flickr