My newest growler. Can’t wait to start filling this up with homebrew.
Brazilian Kids Call Santa on Magic Phone Booth, Retired Actors Answer
This is what Christmas is about. The feels, man, the feels.
Sound Advice Project
A custom bracelet of a sound-wave rendered in 3D “designed” by the waveform of the message it encodes.
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Blake Fall-Conroy, “Minimum Wage Machine,” 2008-2010
This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York.
This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.
Totally in love with this image.
Oh man, SO 1976!
“Adulthood came through with none of the pledges you’d been led somehow to believe in; the future still remained the future-illusion; a non-existent period of constantly-receding promise, hinting fulfillment, yet forever withholding the rewards. All the things that had never happened yet were never going to happen after all.” — Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend
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How’s the air up there?
Urban Air is an experimental bamboo forest high above a Los Angeles freeway.
Surrounded by concrete, bad drivers, and worse advertising, the LA commute feels like the ultimate environmental disconnect. Urban Air seeks to subvert that daily alienation — one billboard at a time. The idea is pretty simple: Take disused billboards, remove the commercial facade, and install a living, breathing cloud forest of bamboo.
Time to reclaim the asphalt jungle and score one for the trees — it’s our Project of the Day.