"The independent online music retailer joined forces with designer Jason Munn, of Small Stakes fame, to create iconic designs for 20 of Insound's favorite bands." via coolhunting
Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument, designed and created by Japanese artist, Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of the Music and Human Interface Group, Yamaha Center for Advanced Sound Technology. It consists of a screen, held in the hands, of a sixteen by sixteen grid of LED switches, any of which can be activated in a number of ways to create an evolving musical soundscape. More at Wikipedia.
Apocalyptic Photos from the Decline of the Recording Industry
A series of photographs of abandoned Tower Record stores by Calvin Kaneda. (via Dinosaurs and Robots)
Wow. This is pretty amazing. I’m not sure I’m ever going to look at eggplant the same way ever again.
“In November 2006 Till Nowak created the image “Salad”. For this image he created 12 digital vegetable models in 3ds max using photographic references. They were combined to become a tribute to the fantastic biomechanical creations of H.R. Giger and the vegetable portraits of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.”
Max Roach passed on today. Likely one of the best and considered by many to be one of the most influential jazz drummers ever, he was 83.
After some deliberation, we’ve decided to offer our 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home for sale. If you yourself are looking such a house in Tacoma, or know someone who might be, please send them my way. I set up a website with the details of the house at Tacoma Home for Sale. We’ve listed the home at $249,000. The MLS# is 27127739, and it’s listed on the MLS with Redfin.