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Another great automated musical installation is If VI was IX, a huge automated sculpture by Trimpin at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. It plays loops of music in different styles on a number of automated guitars, banjos, keyboards, etc. Plus it looks awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimpin
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What about that: http://www.graffagnino.net/wwwpeart/ ?
:)
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thank you guys... will update with the first opportunity. good stuff.
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All the automatic instruments look fantastic.
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Webmaster of http://www.gadgets-club.com the newest gadgets blog
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Interesting post!
Godfried-Willem Raes may have some original ideas about things, but at least some of what he builds is nothing new...
First, let's take a look at his "Klung", a supposed "metal anklung" that he built.
Raes KlungIf you look at it, you may notice it bears a striking resemblance to the vintage percussion instrument the Deagan Shaker Chimes (AKA "Deagan Organ Chimes"):
Deagan photoDeagan articleAs you can read in the article, these vintage production-line chimes WERE based on the Anklung... so really, Mr. Raes' idea is nothing new.
Neither is automating them, apparently. The House On the Rock in Wisconsin has no less than THREE sets of Deagan Shaker [Organ] Chimes, all rigged to play (more-or-less) automatically with various ensembles; respectively the Blue Danube Room (opened in 1991),
Blue Danube Roomthe Red Room (opened in 1978),
Red Room and the Circus Room Orchestra (opened sometime in the 1980's).
Circus OrchestraThe chimes in the Blue Danube ensemble (a rather ersatz affair made from an old Mortier dance organ facade) are especially notable, not only because each chime assembly has been taken out of its stand and arrayed visually at the top of the ensemble (rather than being left in the original rack like the other 2 sets),
Upper part of Blue Danubebut also because they are the only real tuned musical instruments in the whole ensemble! (the string and other non-percussion sounds are produced by synthesizers and emanate from a large speaker hidden behind the tympani on the far right).
Speaker in Blue Danube
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Wow Andrew, thank you for the wonderful info.
The first Blue Danube image link is broken.
Will cover some more in our next part in this series!
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I wonder what that thing sounds like>
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Fantastic automated musical instrument!! wish i have musical instrument someday!! give a thumbs up on su!!
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Last one's probably fake - that's a London Eye gondola...
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That map of Bag End looks like Karen Wynn Fonstad's work— I recognize the handwriting.
And I am such a geek...
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I love the Woodland home! Very inspiring...
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You know, even if this was a photoshop project, it is a very good photoshop project. As much fun as it would be to be inside a hobbit house, it would be a huge amount of work. So whether it was a lot of work in the real world with a saw or in the imagination and with photoshop, it is beautiful! I know how hard it is to make something, even in a virtual world. I just finished building some hobbit houses in Second Life, not little squashed things, but nice
hobbit houses and I can tell you it isn't easy.
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The Vancouver one suspended in the trees was featured in the TV show Worlds Most Extreme Homes. It is used as a cottage.
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I have never seen a real panda before (does TV count?:P) but they are sooooo adorable!! Thanks for posting!
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I never thought I'd say this but those are even cuter then pygmy marmosets! Are there any up for sale?
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How cute!!! I never knew that pandas were so minute in size, the second photo he is only 5 inches!!!!!
Fred Smilek
Email- Fred_Smilek@yahoo.com
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Fred Smilek is the acting president of the Society to Save Endangered Species. It was founded in 2006 by Fred Smilek along with his two best friends Charles and Jonathan.
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VERY cool! I hate graffiti when it's just a way of pissing on a wall to mark territory but when it's art it's amazing. So glad you included the fun folks of Graffiti Research Labs.
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- and then there's this brilliant idea: graffiti as interactive storytelling: http://tinyurl.com/27xw98
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I love Banksy! He had a secret art showcase in Los Angeles last year, too. Awesome artist/activist.
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cool
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M.Christian - interesting interactive idea, thanks...
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More street art from melbourne, australia.
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/02/street-art-pt3.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/02/street-art-pt2.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/02/street-art.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/01/more-megs.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/01/graf-pics.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/01/train-monkey.html
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Thanks Dave!
Definitely good material!
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These are great. I noticed a lot of fun and artistic graffiti when I studied abroad in Lausanne, Switzerland. I don't have all of my favorites online yet, but here are some good ones:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nora.mcdaniel/Graffiti/photo#5190169559015112306
(on a the back of a podium at our technical school)
http://picasaweb.google.com/nora.mcdaniel/Graffiti/photo#5190166410804083714
I found this one around town. The writer wrote "you wish"...
http://picasaweb.google.com/nora.mcdaniel/Graffiti/photo#5190166410804083714
This was on the inside of a bathroom door at school. It says "my height," "my nose," and "my mouth."
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And this is some more about Light Graffiti... as well as my own attempts..
http://www.thednalife.com/2008/09/light-graffiti-is-fun.html
You can also see other art we find interesting on our blog.
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http://www.ekosystem.org/
check that out,
Its got the most AMAZING graffiti posts
i mean it
Im a graffiti artist here in Sao Paulo, brasil
Iv been all over,
but nothing compares to the art we have here
so check out the Sao Paulo section
With love,
Elly.
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"This is definitely staged"
Really? No shit.
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I live in/near Cincinnati & have been dying to explore the subway!
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Go and explore the subway then.
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OK I call hoax on that Calgary abandoned subway pic. I lived there during the 70s and early 80s during LRT construction (C-Train) and although there is one short underground portion soth of downtown (Cemetery Hill), there were never any tunnels built under the downtown area, all the lines were planned from the outset to run along the 7th avenue Transit Mall.
I have a hard time figuring out where in Calgary that alleged photo is from, there are no obvious identifying landmarks. Source?
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there are no photos... but local explorers keep speaking about that. The information is suppressed for obvious reasons.
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The information about Calgary's tunnel under downtown can be found in the book "Calgary- Secrets of the City". I would list author and publisher but alas my books are packed at the moment
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Stampede city gal..... I have lived here all my 32 years and in fact the tunnels do exist. If you go to the alderman's level of city hall parkade, there is a steel ladder. This descends to below the parkade, where the ORIGINAL plans for part of 7th ave c-train lines run. You can do a search and find them. There has been some hoopla about what to do with this vast amount of opens space built below the existing lines. There have even been suggestions in the Calgary herald about using it as part of the Downtown Public library!
If you have ever ridden the c-train just as you leave the Victoria park train station and head into downtown it is a very short, but completely underground section(before the cemetery which is south of the Erlton station) As you are surfacing, you can plainly see where the tunnel was suppose to branch into two, where it would connect UNDER city hall, not go around it as it does now.
look into it....
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Undernead the city of antwerp in Belguim are also kilometers of subway that arent in use.
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Here's a very cool documentary about abandoned spaces:
http://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Forgotten-Places/dp/B000EBDHIW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214615674&sr=8-1
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Good article - had the privilege of seeing a few of these places.
It's hard to qualify the Cincinnati tunnels - they're simply just an abandoned platform with some tunnel stubs - not in the league of GCans!
I tender one of the most amazing, the Niagara Falls tunnels ['confluence']
http://quantum-x.ice.org/episodes/niagara-falls-power-station-confluence-tunnels/
NY's abandonned subways legs also rate a mention
http://sleepycity.net/photo/785/
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Thank you for these links... by the way the last link's not working.
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Cool, I was there in Balaklava, it's open for visitors, I took about the same pictures :)
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This looks so much like Half-Life 2
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I love this site, London underground lost stations would make a great addition to this list. Some stations can be glimpsed whilst travelling in on the central line [they still have the original posters etc when they were sealed up from above]
Fans of all your posts
The Wykeman
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I had seen those shadow sculptures about a month ago and decided to try and achieve one myself. I created the shadow of a cat. There is a picture located here: http://nicolerae365.blogspot.com/2007/07/shadow-art.html
Please tell me what you think!
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Elliot, nice kitty there.
must be hard to set up these things...
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No matter how hard I try, I can't see that girl spinning clockwise, but I think it's actually a mental map problem in my case. You see, I know how to dance, so the only logical way to spin is with the leg trailing, so my brain automatically rejects the alternate interpretation.
The Ferris Wheel right after it works fine, but the green dot doesn't get to eat all the magenta ones— tricksy little guys keep popping back up.
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Try to concentrate on the tip of her shoe (the one closest to the ground), then blink and shift your gaze - seems to work for me.
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I also can't see the spinning girl change direction, not matter how hard I try. The ferris wheel is impressive though.
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B. Durbin,
Whether she is spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise, the leg is still trailing. Blows my mind.
-Hal
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whats the hidden image in the poison ad? and how am i meant to see it?
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Hi Princess... it's a skull. Really scary, actually.
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the 2 cubes aint the same colour, open it in paint and join them together and you'll see
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Paul: true, but the "lighter" cube is actually darker!
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its indeed cheaper to recover any lost data in Africa than in the west send your damaged Drives,Corrupt RAID Servers to East African Data Handlers, ITS CHEAPER TO RECOVER YOU ALL YOUR LOST DATA!
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B.Durbin it sounds like the problem is that you are looking at it as the same leg. Don't think of it as one leg either trailing or leading, rather think of it as the right leg trailing for it to spin in one direction, then think of it as the left leg trailing and it will spin in the other direction.
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The trick with the spinning girl is to concentrate on the shadow of her toes on the leading foot.If you catch it just as it comes into view on the left side, she reverses direction...then on the right side, she reverses direction again. Quite an amazing little illusion.
Thanks, Stephen B.
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Oh my. After staring at the spinning girl for about 15 minutes, I was able to make her switch directions whenever I wanted 'her' to. The downside is, I now have a bad headache.
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Very interesting photos, thanks.
One minor error: it's "Lucas, Kansas"
Not Texas (unless Lucas, TX put up a sign outside of town that says Kansas) :)
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Thanks for pics!
>> I think the following 3 photos are fake. What do you think?
I think so. Looks like an advertisment of a camera with powerful zoom.
Some amazingly funny pics there..great fun!
This photo is staged (photoshopped) but too funny
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the guy who bumbs a vase is not photoshopped, it was a dutch commercial....
nilbaedThe last one must be true: when the 110 film size was introduced, around 1981, we received in our lab a lot of films to process with the same kind of pictures: an ear (blurred because too close) and a nice landscape, the one located behind the photographer...
Photographers often are rude people.Just for their good shot they can do silly things.I have a bad experience about that.
Sports photogs are pack mules first and artists second, and Canon (big white lenses) owns the market.
The guy with the glasses and the printer hanging on his neck actually works at the Fontana di Trevi in Rome, Italy.
I've been there several times and I used to talk a lot with the guy who said me he's been working there for the last 8 years and this is how (through all these years) he is living.
He uses to work there with his wife.
>> I think the following 3 photos are fake. What do you think?
my guess is they're fake. the guy with the camera seems to be wearing the same shoes in all 3 shots
So funny! hihih
Very good!
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