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Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Slide rules and circular gizmos. When will these be available as iPhone apps? At least I can make my own ultra-complex-looking adding machine from paper. (And I will!)

Monday, 15 December 2008
A homemade Christmas gift that special someone is sure to love. And by special someone, I mean the cat.

Sunday, 14 December 2008
Fun with color palettes. Enter a keyword into Color Scheme Generator and it will create color palettes from a collection of Flickr photos it finds. Adobe's Kuler also makes automatic palettes from a photo of your choosing.

Thursday, 4 December 2008
Some podcasts I somehow missed (until now).
Bleepshow
Neojaponisme
The Tone Generation

Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Shirts you can buy me for Christmas.
Fangs
Special
Keffiyeh
Invasion
&, &, &, ?
Bolt, Bolts
Berwyn Bunny
Unicorn Power!
Perpetual Retro
Controlled Chaos
I draw pictures all day
Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull
Music Business Remastered
(I'm a small, by the way.)

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Public Enemy: The Trinity.
PE's lyrics get the special treatment. Wish it was for sale.

Monday, 1 December 2008
Meet your printmaker. Just what I've been looking for: lists of and features on a variety of print shops from all over. Awesome.

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
The antique phonograph music program. Here's a half-hour documentary in three parts about WFMU DJ Mac Camella and his lifelong love of eclectic music and sound. Mac plays hand-cranked 78s and Edison cylinders live on the air like they were meant to be heard. Lovers of antique and novelty record players will pee their pants at the goodies shown in this doc. His collection of record oddities is also full of amazing gems. Kids today will never know the excitement of cutting a playable record out of the back of a cereal box.

Sunday, 23 November 2008
Musical slime. Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the Bit Blob. Bleeplabs really is the work of a mad genius.

Saturday, 22 November 2008
The Best of the Bad and the Worst of the Worst. Bargain Bin Review has a helpful list of "so bad they're good" movies. And of course, the "so bad you'll claw your eyes out" category as well.

Friday, 21 November 2008
Experimental music by Mayan school kids. Mulatta Records just released a third CD in a series of experimental and improvised music written and performed by kids. Yol K'u features Mayan Indian children playing their own compositions on giant marimbas. (See also The Tangerine Awkestra and Da Hip Hop Raskalz.) From the press release:
Some musical compositions are made by children who don't know the instruments, and used musical games to compose pieces that sound a bit like American minimalism and a hiphop tune in Chuj, the local Mayan language: others are very accomplished performers who play the traditional repertoire.

More experimental music news. Electronic duo FM3 have made a second generation of their fantastic Buddha Machine, a pocket-sized device that plays ambient loops. The lo-fi anti-iPod is getting good reviews. (Thanks, Jason Dragon)

Thursday, 20 November 2008
You can never get enough photos of public typography. Jules Vernacular is the latest find, documenting magnificent signage samples. Some quirky faves:

Auto Ecole
Rolland
Cafe den Billekletser
Mairie
1828

Monday, 17 November 2008
Wristwatch boombox. When I was a kid people dragged luggage carts with customized ghetto blasters bigger than themselves, competing to see who had the biggest and baddest. Now it's all about who's got the smallest. Too bad this doesn't play MP3s. (via boingboing)

Saturday, 15 November 2008
Pigeons, a family album. Just added some pix of our fancy pigeons. They're all real characters, I tried to capture their personalities as well as I could. Here's a bonus photo for you.

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Kid Art some of my best work
Scraps making friends is fun
Pigeons  a family album
Some Ghosts obsessive doodling
Biscuit Theater tiny animations

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