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Music of the Spheres: Redux

For the love of all things cool and artistic and musical, you must check out the SolarBeat project. The White Vinyl Design group has given a tone to each of the planets in our solar system, worked out their rate of travel, and then kicked them off on digital orbits, leaving the viewer/listener to adjust [...]

A Band of One

The first one-man band that I remember seeing, was Bert in Mary Poppins. I was immediately intrigued by the notion that you could, by utilizing all of your available appendages, create a pretty full and lively sound.
Bert has set a pretty high bar as far as one-man bands go. Check out the knee cymbals, the [...]

The Secret Life of Stormtroopers

The most interesting things in life generally happen behind the veil of appearance. We like famous people, but we want to know more about who they are as people; what do they do when the camera is not on. We want to see the humanness behind the persona.
It is with much excitement that I present [...]

The Fine Art of the Crayon

For most of us, once we graduated from grade school, our crayon art days were over. Christian Faur, however, was just getting started. Taking those oh-so-appealing sticks of colored wax (that is what crayons are made of, right?) and transforming them into something magnificent, not by using them to color with, but by using the [...]

Graphic Surgery

There is something so appealing about all of the lines, and all of the organized disorder found in the work of Amsterdam based artists Erris Huigens and Gysbert Zijlstra, who go by the name Graphic Surgery. Their work is so stark, and angular, and dimensional. I love it.

After you have sufficiently absorbed the precision and [...]

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