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Lady of Orda Cave by Natalia Avseenko and Phototeam.PRO

Two-time world champion free diver Natalia Avseenko ventured deep into Ordynskaya Cave in Perm, Russia… one of the longest and biggest underwater gypsum caves in the world, dressed as the mythical Lady of the Cave, a spirit who protects divers inside the “natural cathedral”.

Photogs: Website / Behance

                 Phish roared back into Madison Square Garden for the 27th time Monday night, capping off an instantly-sold out four night stand with a raucous four-and-a-half hour celebration replete with ping pong ball cannons, speeding golf carts, scantily-clad sunbathers, dancing dwarfs, backflipping acrobats, and a small ocean of balloons unleashed from the ceiling at the stroke of midnight. Say what you want about Phish, you can't accuse them of skimping on the New Year's balloon budget: [ more › ]

If Sotirios Papadopoulos's "Full Moon" credenza is half as cool in real life as it is in this rendering, well, it'll be pretty cool. This'd be a fun remake/refurb project for junk-shop furniture:

A striking credenza, with a photo-realistic, luminous image of the moon printed on its surface.

Coated with ELI (Eco Light Inside), an eco-friendly material developed by the designer, which creates a realistic, glowing effect when the lights go out.

LIMITED EDITION* / Furniture / Full Moon (via Colossal!)

This isn’t like any Hurdy-Gurdy you’ve seen or heard before.

Derek Holzer’s optoelectronic Tonewheels Hurdy-Gurdy is a combination of mechanical, optical, and electronic elements, part sculpture and part instrument. It recalls vintage mechanical and optical instruments, but with a sound that is decidedly modern and strange.

In the translation, something wonderful happens: this becomes a serious punk instrument, producing surprising, hard-edged sounds. The wheels turn, and the gizmo rocks.

Combining disciplines in this sort of design also means merging different skill sets, so it’s telling that input for the instrument has come from other artists, including friend-of-the-site circuit designer Eric Archer, who has been involved in our Handmade Music series (now MusicMakers). Coming full circle (ahem), I’m thrilled that Mr. Holzer will be organizing MusicMakers at CTM here in Berlin. We have a call out now to participate in the hacklab for that event; I’ll share more details on that event here in the coming days.

I’m a great fan of Derek’s work; there’s plenty to explore below and I hope we cover more soon.

TONEWHEELS HURDY-GURDY(VIELLE A ROUE OPTOÉLECTRONIQUE) from macumbista on Vimeo.

This optoelectronic hurdy-gurdy was commission by the Acces(s) Festival, Pau France in October 2012.
TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions, such as the Light-Tone Organ (Edwin Emil Welte, 1936 Germany), the ANS Synthesizer (Evgeny Murzin, 1958 USSR), and the Oramics system (Daphne Oram, 1959 UK). Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive electronic circuitry similar to that used in 16 & 35mm motion picture projectors to produce sound.
The TONEWHEELS Hurdy-Gurdy presented at Acces(s) is not an “interactive” artwork in the common sense. While it does not reward the impatient museum visitor with flashing lights and noises at the simple touch of the button, it does invite participation in the process of technological music creation. Although it first appears to be a very traditional instrument known to many folk-music cultures, it functions in a very different way which can only be discovered by playing it.
The artist would like to thank Tobias Traub of Oroborus Customs e.K. and Carlo Crovato for their invaluable assistance in creating this instrument. Circuits designed by Jessica Rylan and Eric Archer are also used within the system.
More information on this project can be found at macumbista.net/?p=3020

This is just one piece out of the Tonewheels project, all working with this medium of physical, optical discs. Here’s a beautiful video from another iteration:

cuT 30[draft]-TONEWHEELS filmed by Eyes_For_Ears from macumbista on Vimeo.

The over-arching project has its own page:
http://umatic.nl/tonewheels.html

The Hurdy-Gurdy is described on Derek’s blog:
http://macumbista.net/?p=3020

And lots of other projects, including his new Solstice Soundboxes, are detailed there, as well:
http://macumbista.net/

Hope some of you get to see Derek and me in person in Berlin next month, and for everyone else, we’ll see you on the Internet.

All photos courtesy the artist.

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New submitter titanium93 writes "For months, dozens of people could not use their keyless entry systems to unlock or start their cars when parked in the vicinity of the eight-story Regents bank building in Hollywood, FL. Once the cars were towed to the dealership for repair, the problem went away. The problem resolved itself when police found equipment on the bank's roof that was broadcasting a bootleg radio station. A detective and an FCC agent found the equipment hidden underneath an air conditioning chiller. The man who set up the station has not been found, but he faces felony charges and fines of at least $10,000 if he is caught. The radio station was broadcasting Caribbean music around the clock on 104.7 FM."

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If you're as sad as we are today because of the death of the emaciated beached whale in Queens, here's a little something that might pick you up just a little. In the video below, an area man dons his finest rollerblades and gets taken on a rollicking journey through Bushwick by his huskies Casper and Kaiah (he spends much of the trip rollerblading backwards when the huskies pick up speed). Oh sure, this was probably super annoying to anyone ambling along the sidewalks at the time, but the adorable factor kicks this thing way past scooter children level. [ more › ]

So long, losers. I’m outta here, going to the Nikola-Lenivets village in Russia where they’ve got this Nikola-Lenivets Project and Festival of Landscape Objects going on. It’s pretty sweet. You can take a walk through a forest park by JUMPING ON A LONG TRAMPOLINE!

But seriously.  Nikola-Lenivets is jumpin’ — it’s a dilapidated village turned art colony where all the weirdos have fled in the early 1990s and it’s due for a resurgence. This trampoline is one of the projects competing for a prize judged in January 2013.

The Salto Architects’ Fast Track is what it sounds like: An entire lane of foot traffic for you to bounce on.

“Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. “Fast track” is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and percieving the environment.

And it’s 160 feet of “intelligent design” and fuck all y’all fun. Woo.

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On Saturday, the body of an "impeccably dressed" woman was found on Madison Avenue between 72nd and 73rd Streets. It turned out to be gallery owner Marijana Bego, who owned the Bego-Ezair Gallery located on that street (as well as in the Hamptons). The ME's office determined that the 54-year-old died from suicide. [ more › ]

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FX has announced that the animated characters of Archer are turning into real people and invading four cities for live readings with the cast and creator of the show! Jon Benjamin, Aisha Tyler, Chris Parnell, Jessica Walter, Amber Nash, and Lucky Yates will all perform some of the more memorable scenes from the show under the direction of show creator Adam Reed and executive producer Matt Thompson. Here are the show dates and locations:

January 3: The Echoplex, Los Angeles

January 4: The Fillmore, San Francisco

January 11: The Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia

January 12: Irving Plaza, New York

The show dates lead up to Archer's fourth season premiere on Thursday, January 17 at 10:00 PM (Eastern). In case you needed a reminder that January can actually be exciting! If you aren't already familiar with the show, please allow our publisher Jason Weisberger introduce you to it. (via A.V. Club)

Photo credit: FX

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The following note was found in our inbox earlier this afternoon:

“Our junior guy came in this morning hung over and stinking like booze. After a few of us made comments on how awful he looked, he responded by letting us know that he’s in good enough shape to run a marathon, right now. Almost in sync and without hesitation, we said “done.” He named his price: $1000 (WAY TOO LOW) and within 2 minutes, he had $1000 cash on his desk. He just left the trading floor and is headed back to his apartment to change into running clothes. He initially said he could finish the 26.2 in less than 5 hours in his work clothes as long as we let him change into sneakers. We decided to let him change into running gear, since we’re good guys, but he still has the 5 hour time limit. We’re tracking him via his iPhone’s GPS. Happy Friday.”

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illtud writes "It appears that the Metropolitan Police in London have been recording the frequency of the mains supply for the past 7 years. With this, they claim to be able to pick up the hum from any digital recording and tell when the recording was made. From the article: 'Comparing the unique pattern of the frequencies on an audio recording with a database that has been logging these changes for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year provides a digital watermark: a date and time stamp on the recording.'"

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Everything's been coming up Costanza lately, between the Game Of Thrones/Seinfeld mashups and the hilarious and addictive Modern Seinfeld Twitter account. Now Google's given the greatest show about nothing its own shout-out with a Festivus Easter Egg! And best of all, this easter egg requires no decoration whatsoever. [ more › ]

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After three years of setbacks and legal wrangling, New Jersey’s first medical cannabis dispensary finally opened in Montclair today. A 40 minute drive west of Manhattan, the Green Leaf Compassion Center promises legit, 100 percent legal weed to anyone with the right set of symptoms.

The New York Times was on hand to report on the opening, a relatively subdued affair. “It’s a comforting experience,” said Joseph Stevens, chief executive of the center. “They’ve lived in the shadows for so many years. He added that dispensary was a place sick people could “feel safe, have no fear of prosecution, and go home.”

Stevens and his business partner, Julio Valentin Jr., seem serious about ensuring that Green Leaf Compassion Center remains a serious, medically-oriented place. Stevens, for his part, says he’s even been keeping the fourth Crack Commandment: when asked if he’d ever tried his own product, Stevens responded, “No, I don’t. I just don’t like it.”

(Photo: Park Ranger/Flickr)

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In the period following World War I, a curious attraction appeared at fairgrounds: the photographic shooting gallery. If the punter's bullet hit the centre of the target, this triggered a camera. Instead of winning a balloon or toy, the participant would win a snapshot of him or herself in the act of shooting continue

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Somewhere in New York, people are dying dogs cruel colors. (Photo: Reddit)

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Somewhere in Manhattan, a fashionable gentleman doesn’t care what you think. (Photo: Maxim Melnikov/Flickr)

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