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1. Bad robotics maven Simone Giertz makes Teeth Wall, a midi-powered 12-note xylophone of chattering teeth.
2. Swedish artist Love Hultén runs with the concept with a 25-note sampler synthesizer also made of chattering teeth: the VOC-25.
posted on Jan-12-21 at 9:19 AM
Chill out to some stunning Japenese wood joinery videos from Dylan Iwakuni:
- Shihou Kama Tsugi (four-way goose neck joint)
- Kane Tsugi
- Ari Shiguchi
- Sumidome Hozo Sashi
- Kanawa Tsugi
posted on Dec-7-20 at 10:48 AM
Incremancer: it's like an ant farm except the ants all get out and also the ants are zombies and also this is a good thing. Idly grow yourself an army of adorable tiny undead brain-hungry zombos and consume increasingly large and dangerous groups of humans, one overflowing graveyard at a time.
posted on Dec-6-20 at 7:47 AM
You looking for Platonic solids? Maybe some versi-regular polyhedra? How about some regular hexagonal toroidal solids? We've even got self-intersecting quasi-quasi-regular duals, though we can't legally insure those.
We got all this and more down at dmccooey's visual polyhedra site, your one-stop shopping destination for HTML5 polyhedral renderings.
posted on Dec-1-20 at 9:48 AM
No-Instrument Mixing Board is a full-length album of manipulated feedback by Japanese musician Toshimaru Nakamura, whose instrument is a mixing board with its output plugged into its input. (Track 4 has some very high frequency tones; you may want to skip to 25:20 when those show up if you still have your hearing up there.)
posted on Oct-22-20 at 1:09 PM
30 egg omelette.
50 egg omelette.
60 egg omelette.
90 egg omelette.
21,000 egg omelette.
2 egg omelette.
posted on Oct-21-20 at 11:03 AM
Tonight starting at 6 p.m. pacific time is the 2020 Vice-Presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence; there's a C-Span livestream.
posted on Oct-7-20 at 5:30 PM
Pincremental is a free online idle game that starts as a janky pinball sim and turns into a janky pinball automation sim.
posted on Sep-15-20 at 2:19 PM
A shot-for-shot remake of the final sequence of Kubrick's opus magnum, within the confines of a Brooklyn apartment, starring and directed and etc by artist Lydia Cambron: 2020: An Isolation Odyssey
posted on Aug-12-20 at 3:10 PM
Jess Zimmerman writes about physical and emotional trauma, navigating the fear of a pandemic amid the panoptic awareness of others' fear and loss and pain, and the strange ways that wounds and healing proceed, in the excellent It Doesn’t Hurt, It Hurts All the Time.
posted on Aug-11-20 at 2:27 PM
An engineer, in fine engineer fashion, decides to save time making perler bead sprite art by hand by spending nine months iterating on a modified perler bead 3D printer.
posted on Jul-24-20 at 9:47 AM
Spend a pleasant ninety minutes watching beardy, distractible Irish sword-maker Michael Cthulhu build a massive slab of sword called The Wrektangle.
posted on Jul-6-20 at 3:22 PM
Half-Life 1, in VR, except it's absurdist improv comedy. Act I, part 1 in a continuing series.
posted on Apr-24-20 at 9:45 AM
Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal
posted on Apr-17-20 at 7:37 AM
I spent twenty minutes watching this bonkers metatextual reinterpretation of Blade Runner, "The Lost Cut" so now you have to too.
posted on Apr-15-20 at 7:03 PM
Maarit Hänninen is a Finnish artist who makes linocut work, and sometimes creates short montage videos documenting the process:
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow
- Nymph
- Eden
posted on Mar-16-20 at 7:43 AM
Maybe we could go to the moon using four USB chargers instead of the original Apollo 11 computers.
posted on Feb-7-20 at 4:43 PM
ÖBST, or, how fruit would move if fruit moved
posted on Jan-30-20 at 4:23 PM
Somebody figured out where the hell exactly all those WikiHow images come from. (Spoiler alert: low-paying distributed freelance labor.)
posted on Jan-21-20 at 11:51 AM
This music video for Very Noise by Igorrr is a hell of a thing.
posted on Jan-18-20 at 9:16 AM
Try and figure out what the hell is happening in FFT Battleground, a twitch stream that's a cross between the classic generative beat-em-up sports betting hijinks of Salty Bet and the turn-based chocobo-adjacent combat of PS1 classic Final Fantasy Tactics.
posted on Jan-15-20 at 5:09 PM
Fuck it, let's just make a Super Mario World guitar out of popsicle sticks.
posted on Dec-18-19 at 3:24 PM
Embroidery renderings of aerial views, and other landscapes and such, by English textile artist Victoria Rose Richards.
posted on Dec-17-19 at 10:40 AM
A short video history of developments in the speedrunning strategies for that very famous video game, the intro sequence to American Dad.
posted on Dec-3-19 at 7:41 AM
A Thermomechanical Material Point Method for Baking and Cooking, or: now we're cookin' with graphs. If you want the gory mathematical details, here's the paper. And, via a bread simulation segue, here's some tearing and breaking stuff.
posted on Nov-14-19 at 9:22 AM
Shrek does a good job at the dog show. Mike Wazowski rides a pony. Many more sundry weird edits from @chanbanhi on twitter.
posted on Nov-1-19 at 10:47 AM
HighwayWiki is a work-in-progress collection of "facts and pictures about each and every known traffic signal and accessory, including their respective companies, dates produced, and related brands and models."
posted on Oct-1-19 at 12:50 PM
A short woodworking video: creating a perpetual flip calendar. Author notes the design was derived from diagrams in US patents 1716222 and 1681235.
posted on Sep-26-19 at 3:47 PM
Wibmer's Law, an eight minute city biking video from Fabio Wibmer chock full of trials stunts, with a charming amount of narrative throughline.
posted on Sep-24-19 at 5:20 PM
Hey, here's a methodology for a nice set of graphs visualizing the distribution of the letters a-z across the start, middle, and end of English words, using the Brown Corpus as a source. Quicker summary here.
posted on Sep-20-19 at 1:40 PM
Surprisingly Turing-Complete: A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability
posted on Sep-13-19 at 10:34 AM
take in the black and white cyberpunk mood of lvl374, all pixels and chromatic aberration and android dystopia, scenes from a game that never existed and you can't forget playing
posted on Sep-2-19 at 8:06 PM
Constructing Logic Gates, Circuits, and Adders in Civilization 3 Using Barbarians
posted on Sep-1-19 at 3:35 PM
Using machine learning facial prediction to create absolutely Cronenbergian nightmare extrapolations of low-resolution emoji.
posted on Aug-30-19 at 12:43 PM
Matt "Numberphile" Parker builds logic gates out of dominos. Matt then builds (with much help) a 3- and then 4-bit adder out of dominoes at a science museum. Here's another persons' text-based explanation of binary domino logic; here's yet another written explanation, with interactive diagrams. (See also this 2008 MeFi post.)
posted on Aug-23-19 at 9:01 AM
Circuit Bent Smoke Alarms is an album of 26 short recordings of circuit bent smoke alarms by Dylan Sheridan. For my money, call_5, call_10, and call17 are the can't miss tracks, though msg_9 is how I feel inside a lot of the time.
posted on Aug-13-19 at 10:43 AM
Chesses is eight new kinds of chess. Eight new chesses, as it were. What if gravity pulled pieces to the bottom of the board? What if moving a piece left a clone behind? What if every capture was mutual destruction? And so forth? Thanks to delightful games-smith Pippin Barr, now you can find out.
posted on Aug-12-19 at 9:04 AM
Welcome...to theclub.zone, a lofi MMO where you can listen to music, be a ghost, chat with canned phrases, dance to music, be a stickman, and be at the club.
posted on Aug-8-19 at 7:58 PM
The Brick Experiment Channel does wordless, lightly-annotated build experiments with lego bricks and gears and motors. How fast a wheel? How heavy a weight? What if you built a submarine inside a plastic pitcher?
posted on Aug-7-19 at 8:54 AM
Use your mouse or your finger to fling your tiny pixelated soccer/football person goalward? ballward? skyward? backward? in A Small World Cup, a hilarious wee ludumdare 38 game by Rujo Games. (Hat tip to RPS.)
posted on Aug-5-19 at 7:46 AM
All Star but it's Old Town Road.
All Star but it's Take Me Home, Country Roads.
All Star but it's Space Oddity.
posted on Jul-23-19 at 2:08 PM
Jumping a bicycle over the Tour de France peloton, like you do.
posted on Jul-17-19 at 12:37 PM
"I made the worst ever 1-1 remake in Mario Maker 2"
posted on Jul-16-19 at 12:09 PM
Princess Chelsea (previously) is from New Zealand and swings twee like a sledgehammer, making tightly constructed big mood dreamy pop music and wonderfully, variously weird music videos. Wasting Time is high kitcsh pink hair singing into a flower with cows; Growing Older is a creepingly psychedelic home video collage.
Both are off her 2018 album, The Loneliest Girl, but boy howdy is there a lot more goodness from the last decade.
posted on Jun-29-19 at 12:31 PM
Laughing Squid on the restoration of the two-wheeled prototype car, the Gyro-X, which looks like a sports car put through a photoshop wringer. A bit more from the Lane Motor Museum. Some individual video links: inside the restoration process in 2013; some post-restoration garage and show footage; more tidbits on the restoration process and recreating the gyroscope; vintage, silent footage of the original prototype in the late 60s.
posted on Jun-26-19 at 2:02 PM
Want some classic Bowie recordings remixed into a reggae structure? Well, here's David Bowie - The Next Dub, one of over a dozen dub remix projects by musical entity Black Market.
posted on Jun-18-19 at 12:56 PM
Wiki Titles Singable to TMNT Themesong is a twitter bot that generates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-style title art images based on wikipedia article titles singable to the TMNT theme song. [hat tip to waxpancake]
posted on Jun-15-19 at 8:54 AM
"I got tired of waiting for Weezer to release another good album so I made one myself." That'd be Zerwee, a 4-song EP by not-actually-Weezer musical person Billy Cobb.
posted on May-14-19 at 4:09 PM
Twelve years ago, after a mid-game rain delay, a couple of front-row fans grabbed a pop foul, ruining an easy out for fielder Garret Anderson. Unremarkable play, not worth remarking on. But then, 1.62 seconds later, here comes the pizza.
posted on Apr-16-19 at 3:59 PM
Pawnbarian is a...roguelike chesslike deckbuilder? Yes! Sure. You draw a hand of chess moves and try, with two moves per turn, to kill off the baddies in each level without taking a fatal amount of damage in return. [Via the ever-charming Rock Paper Shotgun, re: the ever-delightful 7 Day Roguelike Challenge]
posted on Mar-15-19 at 1:42 PM
2. Swedish artist Love Hultén runs with the concept with a 25-note sampler synthesizer also made of chattering teeth: the VOC-25.
posted on Jan-12-21 at 9:19 AM
Chill out to some stunning Japenese wood joinery videos from Dylan Iwakuni:
- Shihou Kama Tsugi (four-way goose neck joint)
- Kane Tsugi
- Ari Shiguchi
- Sumidome Hozo Sashi
- Kanawa Tsugi
posted on Dec-7-20 at 10:48 AM
Incremancer: it's like an ant farm except the ants all get out and also the ants are zombies and also this is a good thing. Idly grow yourself an army of adorable tiny undead brain-hungry zombos and consume increasingly large and dangerous groups of humans, one overflowing graveyard at a time.
posted on Dec-6-20 at 7:47 AM
You looking for Platonic solids? Maybe some versi-regular polyhedra? How about some regular hexagonal toroidal solids? We've even got self-intersecting quasi-quasi-regular duals, though we can't legally insure those.
We got all this and more down at dmccooey's visual polyhedra site, your one-stop shopping destination for HTML5 polyhedral renderings.
posted on Dec-1-20 at 9:48 AM
No-Instrument Mixing Board is a full-length album of manipulated feedback by Japanese musician Toshimaru Nakamura, whose instrument is a mixing board with its output plugged into its input. (Track 4 has some very high frequency tones; you may want to skip to 25:20 when those show up if you still have your hearing up there.)
posted on Oct-22-20 at 1:09 PM
30 egg omelette.
50 egg omelette.
60 egg omelette.
90 egg omelette.
21,000 egg omelette.
2 egg omelette.
posted on Oct-21-20 at 11:03 AM
Tonight starting at 6 p.m. pacific time is the 2020 Vice-Presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence; there's a C-Span livestream.
posted on Oct-7-20 at 5:30 PM
Pincremental is a free online idle game that starts as a janky pinball sim and turns into a janky pinball automation sim.
posted on Sep-15-20 at 2:19 PM
A shot-for-shot remake of the final sequence of Kubrick's opus magnum, within the confines of a Brooklyn apartment, starring and directed and etc by artist Lydia Cambron: 2020: An Isolation Odyssey
posted on Aug-12-20 at 3:10 PM
Jess Zimmerman writes about physical and emotional trauma, navigating the fear of a pandemic amid the panoptic awareness of others' fear and loss and pain, and the strange ways that wounds and healing proceed, in the excellent It Doesn’t Hurt, It Hurts All the Time.
posted on Aug-11-20 at 2:27 PM
An engineer, in fine engineer fashion, decides to save time making perler bead sprite art by hand by spending nine months iterating on a modified perler bead 3D printer.
posted on Jul-24-20 at 9:47 AM
Spend a pleasant ninety minutes watching beardy, distractible Irish sword-maker Michael Cthulhu build a massive slab of sword called The Wrektangle.
posted on Jul-6-20 at 3:22 PM
Half-Life 1, in VR, except it's absurdist improv comedy. Act I, part 1 in a continuing series.
posted on Apr-24-20 at 9:45 AM
Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal
posted on Apr-17-20 at 7:37 AM
I spent twenty minutes watching this bonkers metatextual reinterpretation of Blade Runner, "The Lost Cut" so now you have to too.
posted on Apr-15-20 at 7:03 PM
Maarit Hänninen is a Finnish artist who makes linocut work, and sometimes creates short montage videos documenting the process:
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow
- Nymph
- Eden
posted on Mar-16-20 at 7:43 AM
Maybe we could go to the moon using four USB chargers instead of the original Apollo 11 computers.
posted on Feb-7-20 at 4:43 PM
ÖBST, or, how fruit would move if fruit moved
posted on Jan-30-20 at 4:23 PM
Somebody figured out where the hell exactly all those WikiHow images come from. (Spoiler alert: low-paying distributed freelance labor.)
posted on Jan-21-20 at 11:51 AM
This music video for Very Noise by Igorrr is a hell of a thing.
posted on Jan-18-20 at 9:16 AM
Try and figure out what the hell is happening in FFT Battleground, a twitch stream that's a cross between the classic generative beat-em-up sports betting hijinks of Salty Bet and the turn-based chocobo-adjacent combat of PS1 classic Final Fantasy Tactics.
posted on Jan-15-20 at 5:09 PM
Fuck it, let's just make a Super Mario World guitar out of popsicle sticks.
posted on Dec-18-19 at 3:24 PM
Embroidery renderings of aerial views, and other landscapes and such, by English textile artist Victoria Rose Richards.
posted on Dec-17-19 at 10:40 AM
A short video history of developments in the speedrunning strategies for that very famous video game, the intro sequence to American Dad.
posted on Dec-3-19 at 7:41 AM
A Thermomechanical Material Point Method for Baking and Cooking, or: now we're cookin' with graphs. If you want the gory mathematical details, here's the paper. And, via a bread simulation segue, here's some tearing and breaking stuff.
posted on Nov-14-19 at 9:22 AM
Shrek does a good job at the dog show. Mike Wazowski rides a pony. Many more sundry weird edits from @chanbanhi on twitter.
posted on Nov-1-19 at 10:47 AM
HighwayWiki is a work-in-progress collection of "facts and pictures about each and every known traffic signal and accessory, including their respective companies, dates produced, and related brands and models."
posted on Oct-1-19 at 12:50 PM
A short woodworking video: creating a perpetual flip calendar. Author notes the design was derived from diagrams in US patents 1716222 and 1681235.
posted on Sep-26-19 at 3:47 PM
Wibmer's Law, an eight minute city biking video from Fabio Wibmer chock full of trials stunts, with a charming amount of narrative throughline.
posted on Sep-24-19 at 5:20 PM
Hey, here's a methodology for a nice set of graphs visualizing the distribution of the letters a-z across the start, middle, and end of English words, using the Brown Corpus as a source. Quicker summary here.
posted on Sep-20-19 at 1:40 PM
Surprisingly Turing-Complete: A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability
posted on Sep-13-19 at 10:34 AM
take in the black and white cyberpunk mood of lvl374, all pixels and chromatic aberration and android dystopia, scenes from a game that never existed and you can't forget playing
posted on Sep-2-19 at 8:06 PM
Constructing Logic Gates, Circuits, and Adders in Civilization 3 Using Barbarians
posted on Sep-1-19 at 3:35 PM
Using machine learning facial prediction to create absolutely Cronenbergian nightmare extrapolations of low-resolution emoji.
posted on Aug-30-19 at 12:43 PM
Matt "Numberphile" Parker builds logic gates out of dominos. Matt then builds (with much help) a 3- and then 4-bit adder out of dominoes at a science museum. Here's another persons' text-based explanation of binary domino logic; here's yet another written explanation, with interactive diagrams. (See also this 2008 MeFi post.)
posted on Aug-23-19 at 9:01 AM
Circuit Bent Smoke Alarms is an album of 26 short recordings of circuit bent smoke alarms by Dylan Sheridan. For my money, call_5, call_10, and call17 are the can't miss tracks, though msg_9 is how I feel inside a lot of the time.
posted on Aug-13-19 at 10:43 AM
Chesses is eight new kinds of chess. Eight new chesses, as it were. What if gravity pulled pieces to the bottom of the board? What if moving a piece left a clone behind? What if every capture was mutual destruction? And so forth? Thanks to delightful games-smith Pippin Barr, now you can find out.
posted on Aug-12-19 at 9:04 AM
Welcome...to theclub.zone, a lofi MMO where you can listen to music, be a ghost, chat with canned phrases, dance to music, be a stickman, and be at the club.
posted on Aug-8-19 at 7:58 PM
The Brick Experiment Channel does wordless, lightly-annotated build experiments with lego bricks and gears and motors. How fast a wheel? How heavy a weight? What if you built a submarine inside a plastic pitcher?
posted on Aug-7-19 at 8:54 AM
Use your mouse or your finger to fling your tiny pixelated soccer/football person goalward? ballward? skyward? backward? in A Small World Cup, a hilarious wee ludumdare 38 game by Rujo Games. (Hat tip to RPS.)
posted on Aug-5-19 at 7:46 AM
All Star but it's Old Town Road.
All Star but it's Take Me Home, Country Roads.
All Star but it's Space Oddity.
posted on Jul-23-19 at 2:08 PM
Jumping a bicycle over the Tour de France peloton, like you do.
posted on Jul-17-19 at 12:37 PM
"I made the worst ever 1-1 remake in Mario Maker 2"
posted on Jul-16-19 at 12:09 PM
Princess Chelsea (previously) is from New Zealand and swings twee like a sledgehammer, making tightly constructed big mood dreamy pop music and wonderfully, variously weird music videos. Wasting Time is high kitcsh pink hair singing into a flower with cows; Growing Older is a creepingly psychedelic home video collage.
Both are off her 2018 album, The Loneliest Girl, but boy howdy is there a lot more goodness from the last decade.
posted on Jun-29-19 at 12:31 PM
Laughing Squid on the restoration of the two-wheeled prototype car, the Gyro-X, which looks like a sports car put through a photoshop wringer. A bit more from the Lane Motor Museum. Some individual video links: inside the restoration process in 2013; some post-restoration garage and show footage; more tidbits on the restoration process and recreating the gyroscope; vintage, silent footage of the original prototype in the late 60s.
posted on Jun-26-19 at 2:02 PM
Want some classic Bowie recordings remixed into a reggae structure? Well, here's David Bowie - The Next Dub, one of over a dozen dub remix projects by musical entity Black Market.
posted on Jun-18-19 at 12:56 PM
Wiki Titles Singable to TMNT Themesong is a twitter bot that generates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-style title art images based on wikipedia article titles singable to the TMNT theme song. [hat tip to waxpancake]
posted on Jun-15-19 at 8:54 AM
"I got tired of waiting for Weezer to release another good album so I made one myself." That'd be Zerwee, a 4-song EP by not-actually-Weezer musical person Billy Cobb.
posted on May-14-19 at 4:09 PM
Twelve years ago, after a mid-game rain delay, a couple of front-row fans grabbed a pop foul, ruining an easy out for fielder Garret Anderson. Unremarkable play, not worth remarking on. But then, 1.62 seconds later, here comes the pizza.
posted on Apr-16-19 at 3:59 PM
Pawnbarian is a...roguelike chesslike deckbuilder? Yes! Sure. You draw a hand of chess moves and try, with two moves per turn, to kill off the baddies in each level without taking a fatal amount of damage in return. [Via the ever-charming Rock Paper Shotgun, re: the ever-delightful 7 Day Roguelike Challenge]
posted on Mar-15-19 at 1:42 PM
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