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By admin 2008.06.26 - tags: , ,

Magazine cover with woman asking: Done Any LatelyPreventive Maintenance Monthly (now digitized at VCU libraries) was an Army pub started in 1951 and drawn by comic artist Will Eisner, with comically beautiful service babes asking accusing questions like “Who didn’t check out these parts before taking them off the equipment?” And offering vital SOPs like:

Magazine drawing on cleaning battery terminals


By BG 2008.06.20 - tags: , ,

Friend of and designer for HV, Scott Edmunds is posting a Photo A Day:

Scott designed HV’s original ear animation. He co-owns the digital sign biz, smatter.tv; blogs at hypercanvas, and his beautiful woodfire ceramics are sold by Takashimaya New York and others.

Woofired ceramic


By BG 2008.04.11 - tags: , , , | 1 comment »

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.”
PostSecret postcard- I secretly hope you're going to be miserable. But even more secretly I hope you're going to be happy.

Frank Warren came up the concept, catalogs the cards, and created a community.
PostSecret postcard- To the man who held my hand and made sure my son was okay when I totalled my car 9 years ago, I'm sorry I didn't ask your name, but I will never forget your kindness.

Frank Warren has been on NPR’s WE-SAT and ATC. And PostSecret has spawned a swarm of of books and flock of videos. These animated PostSecret cards accompany Donora’s song “Shhh” in the film “PostSecret - A Valentine Video:”


By SBE 2008.04.09 - tags: , , , ,

Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound…is an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, animators and architects. The first release will be a collection of Audio-Visual Sound Sculptures, on High Definition DVD and 5:1 Surround Sound. “

And, if you happen to be in Sheffield England in early May, you can attend a premier of these sound sculptures at the Showroom Cinema.

I’ve included a preview of the sound sculptures below:


By BG 2008.04.07 - tags: , , , ,

PRX logoThe latest PRX podcast has an environment/media mix, first whispered then shouted, Amy Conger’s “Secret and Noise” (4:12 mp3):


By BG 2008.03.30 - tags: , ,

Commisioned by a Burnley Council, England as part of the Big Art Project; created by the architects Tonkin Liu for a hilltop at Crown Point, Lancashire, England, is the “Singing, Ringing Tree:”


There’s also a video on the making of this Panopticon at YouTube.

via JFK-KGLT.


By BG 2008.03.12 HV/Story tags: , , , , , ,

Objects from ItSpaceMySpace has pages for people, places, and now things. Composer Peter Traub has started ItSpace, a participatory sound project. “ItSpace pages feature everyday household objects. Each page has a photo of the object, a description, and most importantly, a 1-minute piece of music composed of recordings of the object being struck and resonated in various.” A story by Jesse Dukes on NPR Day to Day, “Objects Sing at Itspace” (5:04) mp3):


By BG 2008.02.12 - tags: ,

Improv Everywhere, suppliers of slo-mo Home Depot shoppers , have an improved improv, Frozen Grand Central:

Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station. Over 500,000 people rush through Grand Central every day, but today, things slowed down just a bit as commuters and tourists alike stopped to notice what was happening around them.


Pix, video and blog at Improv Everywhere; their slogan: “We Cause Scenes.”