[Total win. -egg]
Matt sez, “Maya Weinstein is an artist who just finished her MFA at Parsons, with the awesomest thesis ever: a DIY kit for making your own High-Fructose Corn Syrup, the industrial sweetener that is, well, let’s say problematic these days.
via Small batch artisanal high-fructose corn syrup – Boing Boing.
[A man after my own heart. Video on the page. -egg]
PARIS — The composer Joseph Bertolozzi, bearing a meditative look, stood with his feet apart in front of a door frame inside the Eiffel Tower. Then, 187 feet above the Champs de Mars garden, he pulled a latex mallet from his tool bag and hit the frame hard, and then softer, with agility and rhythm.
“That one was beautiful!” said Paul Kozel, a sound engineer, who recorded the dull thuds.
Mr. Bertolozzi, who lives in Beacon, N.Y., is in Paris harvesting sounds for what he calls a “public art installation,” a musical project that has taken him, Mr. Kozel and a team of seven to one of the most visited monuments in the world.
His mission is to “play the Eiffel Tower” by striking its surfaces, collecting sounds through a microphone and using them as samples for an hourlong composition called “Tower Music.” He eventually hopes for a live, on-site performance of the work to celebrate the tower’s 125th anniversary next year.
via ‘Tower Music,’ From Eiffel Tower, by Joseph Bertolozzi – NYTimes.com.
[Several more photos at the original page. -egg]
riotclitshave, odditiesoflife: China’s Incredible Colored Rice….
[This is old but excellent, written shortly after the release of “Ys.” I missed it at the time. -egg]
“Nearer the Heart of Things”: Erik Davis profiles JOANNA NEWSOM | Arthur Magazine
http://arthurmag.com/2006/12/23/nearer-the-heart-of-things-erik-davis-on-joanna-newsom-from-arthur-no-25winter-02006/
(via Instapaper)
Living in a treehouse is indisputably incredible. Sure, you might be roughing it a little bit, considering theres a climb and the trees are flammable thus limiting your cooking capabilities. But the views and the experience are unmatched. From the antique to the futuristic, here are some of the most beautiful tree-borne homes weve ever seen. If these images fill you with wanderlust, take note: some of these houses are also hotels.
[Very interesting essay. Recommended. -egg]
One of the consistent myths of pro wrestling is the concept of the “face” and the “heel” – the good guy and the bad guy. Within the consensus reality of the Kayfabe, these are mortal foes… right up to the point where one or the other makes a “heel-face turn”, the good guy becoming the bad or vice versa. Like, say, the ‘heroic rebels’ of the CIA-sponsored Mujahideen becoming the post-9/11 enemy… But in reality, they’re still just performers in a symbolic, mythical struggle. Whether they consciously co-operate or not, both sides need the struggle in order to continue their identity, to define their reality.So, again – who profits? Those invested – emotionally, financially – in the game, on both supposed sides. The extremists; the governments who seek any excuse to cow the populous, to keep every single person scared and surveilled; the radicals who want to tear down anything that doesn’t look exactly like their fantasy world be it Dar-al-Islam or Rule Britannia; the corporations that sell the weapons to them all or, like Monsanto, rely on the distraction to conceal their agenda. And, by pure coincidence, those who want to tame the internet, to stop those who don’t want to suffer for their gain from finding out more about the truth behind the spectacle. Anyone who wants to play another game, wants a future of co-operation not competition, strength for all instead of profit-and-loss… are just collateral damage for the drones and the thugs.
The Little Free Library is a project from Stereolab: a freestanding, inverted plastic tank that you stick your head into in order to browse the books that are sheltered from the elements. It’s been installed in New York’s Nolita.
