The Telemegaphone!

This awesome art installation is a giant megaphone perched on a mountain in Norway. When it's up and running you can call it with a cell phone and boom your voice for miles. I can't wait!

TELEMEGAPHONE!

Via MAKE.

Honda Pig-Man Ad:

Here's some freaky photoshopping from Honda:

More at: Toxel.com

78rpm Records

Stumbled onto this incredible list of 78's, most of which can be listened to online.

Two samples:

Along About Daybreak - Bill Monroe

Beale Street Blues - Jack Teagarden.

Enjoy.

Animated Japanese Folktale: The Stonecutter

Please enjoy this short animated version of the Japanese folktale, The Stonecutter, from 1960 by Gerald McDermott. He's the same dude who did the Myth of Daedalus previously posted on this blog.



via the Academic Film Archive of America collection at the Archive.

Camping Boat

Here's something Sweet from TreeHugger:

Camping On the Water

Second only to a full houseboat (my secret dream house).

Also, I apologize for my absence, between the 4th of July, my birthday, and weddings, I've been all over the place. Hopefully more regular posts from here on out.

Really Old Recordings

These awesome recordings found in the Archive's Edison Cylinder section of the 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings collection were originally recorded by Edison Records, the first record company ever (Edison as in Thomas Edison). Many of them are phonograph cylinders, the first way to record and reproduce music.

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Imperial Marimba Band - Stars and Stripes Forever.

Boola Boola Ah Yale (The Yale fight song)

San Francisco Saxophone Quartet- Maple Leaf Rag.

Tons more at Audio Archive.

Patafilms

I just discovered these "patafilms" on the Archive. I'm not sure what is really going on yet. There are lots of these little films and an accompanying blog. Hopefully more viewings and reading will lead to enlightenment...or something. Enjoy!