Ich hab so meine Zweifel, ob Joshua Nguyen tatsächlich "The last LP factory in South America" erwischt hat, aber er hat ein paar schöne Fotos gemacht.
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The Berlin Boombox comes as a kit consisting of a die-cut cardboard structure, all electronic parts, and four AA batteries. Assembly is easy, tools-free and takes only a couple of minutes. No geek knowledge necessary ... Insert your device (where back in the days the tape used to go). Connect via 3,5 mm stereo jack which ensures that a wide range of devices can be used, not only iPhones or iPods. Unlike most other cardboard speakers on the market this one features an integrated amplifier that provides stereo sound ... The Berlin Boombox is made of partially recycled cardboard. All cardboard parts are fully recyclable ... The BerlinBoombox is made in Berlin. Except for the electronic parts, which are imported from asia, all design, screen-printing, cardboard production and packaging is done locally.
I had the idea for this site back in 2009. Took me a few years to realize it. Hopefully it's not too late... It's a one-man-project: This site will definitely not win an award for design, but hopefully it will help some record shops to survive a bit longer. If you have some ideas, please feel free to contact me.Und weils schön passt:
The term black fax refers to a prank fax transmission, consisting of one or more pages entirely filled with a uniform black tone. The sender's intention is typically to consume as much of the recipient's fax ink, toner or thermal paper or disk space as possible, thus costing the recipient money and/or denying the recipient the use of their machine (this is similar to computer-based denial of service attacks). This is made easier because the fax transmission protocols compress the solid black image very well, so a very short fax call can produce many pages. Black faxes have been used to harass large institutions or government departments, to retaliate against the senders of junk faxes, or merely as simple pranks. The basic principle of a black fax can be extended to form a black fax attack. In this case, one or more sheets are fed halfway through the sender's fax machine and taped end to end, forming an endless loop that cycles through the machine. Not only can solid black be used, but also images which will repeat endlessly on the receiver's machine until his or her toner runs out ... Black faxes have been used by the group Anonymous as a protest against the Westboro Baptist Church ...
This is my second modding attemt and I´m here to recycle. I´ll be turning my very old computer into a kind of arcade console, emulating classics from the NES, SNES, SEGA, NEO GEO and many more. I´ll be using the arcade interface program Maximus Arcade for autoboot. I want to keep this artifact very simple, with sharp edges and small stylistic features, all covered in hardwood.. If you´ve seen my previous mod sputnik 0667 you´ll be familiar with the color concept: walnut, brass and matte black. I just can´t get enough of that combo! I´m going to use walnut lumber and some veneer on MDF.(via Hack N Mod)
"Jim Henson made this film in 1963 for The Bell System. Specifically, it was made for an elite seminar given for business owners, on the then-brand-new topic — Data Communications. The seminar itself involved a lot of films and multimedia presentations, and took place in Chicago ... The organizers of the seminar, Inpro, actually set the tone for the film in a three-page memo from one of Inpro's principals, Ted Mills to Henson. Mills outlined the nascent, but growing relationship between man and machine: a relationship not without tension and resentment: "He [the robot] is sure that All Men Basically Want to Play Golf, and not run businesses — if he can do it better." ... Henson's execution is not only true to Mills' vision, but he also puts his own unique, irreverent spin on the material ..."
1895 spielte [May Irwin] am Broadway das Musical The Widow Jones und trug dort zum ersten Mal den Bully Song vor, der ihr Markenzeichen wurde. Ihr Auftritt schloss einen Bühnenkuss zwischen ihr und ihrem Co-Star John Rice ein. Thomas Edison engagierte beide Darsteller, damit sie diesen Kuss im Kurzfilm The Kiss vor der Kamera wiederholten. Dieser Kuss ging als der erste Filmkuss überhaupt in die Kinogeschichte ein.Brain Pickings hat noch mehr dazu:
Thomas Edison is responsible for some of the most significant, and is even credited as the inventor of the movie industry itself. But besides his visionary take on technology, he also had a keen eye for what audiences wanted. It comes as no surprise, then, that Edison is also responsible for the very first on-screen kiss in cinema, featuring Canadian actress May Irwin. A mere 23 seconds in length, it was filmed in his Black Maria studio in New Jersey in 1896., at a time when public kissing was greatly frowned upon by Victorian society. In that era, the act of kissing was referred to as “sparkin’” if it took place indoors, usually the parlor, or “spoonin’” when performed outdoors, in a secluded spot far from the public’s eye. ....Bis zum ersten Stummfilm-Porno dauerte es dann noch mal ein bißchen. Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte ...
swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. every single one of these shows actually happened.(via Swiss Miss)