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sound check
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It's done. I installed everything this morning, and within about 10 minutes, neighbors started coming by to play.
This is just me (my wife shot the vertical video) plinking around.
I'll post a bunch of process photos and notes on the blog and add a link to that here eventually, but as of today, I'm really pleased with the sound quality from the resonators.
It's lovely having soft tones float up through the living room window as random people stop by to make random music.
It's the whole reason why I built the thing in the first place.
This is just me (my wife shot the vertical video) plinking around.
I'll post a bunch of process photos and notes on the blog and add a link to that here eventually, but as of today, I'm really pleased with the sound quality from the resonators.
It's lovely having soft tones float up through the living room window as random people stop by to make random music.
It's the whole reason why I built the thing in the first place.
Love this so much! The open access, the DIY street art nature of it, and the dreamy notes drifting up for you to enjoy. Great idea and top work 😊♥️💯
Perhaps a xylophone virtuoso will pay a visit one day, and you'll suddenly hear some masterful melodies floating into your living room.
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more of this energy. every where.
Nutfield close indeed
i would pay good money to see Wayne from Letterkenny unload on that knob - first verbally, then physically.
Up all night
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Marge Simpson in her bed clothes:
"Have you been up all night watching scaffolding?"
"Have you been up all night watching scaffolding?"
Good dry run for when we're staring all day at a live shot of Walter Reed.
Hey, he only needed 22 specialists for his last checkup.
@jpoulos inshallah.
oh no, not again
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I chortled!
Amazing
at least babies are getting enrichment things.
the fascists are just getting money, drugs, and booze.
the fascists are just getting money, drugs, and booze.
I’m not a doctor but I….
Bigger Trees Near Warter
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A giant painting of trees in a landscape.
David Hockney, 2007. 4.6 × 12.2 meters, painted on 50 separate panels in a tiny attic studio in Yorkshire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
One of the few paintings that has ever brought me to tears in a museum full of people.
RIP Mr. Hockney, your work has inspired me since I was a child.
One of the few paintings that has ever brought me to tears in a museum full of people.
RIP Mr. Hockney, your work has inspired me since I was a child.
this is lovely. the branches momentarily made me think of eyvind earle.
also, wow, "painted on 50 separate panels in a tiny attic studio in Yorkshire", what a feat!
also, wow, "painted on 50 separate panels in a tiny attic studio in Yorkshire", what a feat!
This Charming Man
Yes, you aren't.
watch this space
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An angular aluminum tube frame 8 feet long stands on 4 short tube legs set into a lawn in front of a pale green 1929 house against a blue sky.
(previously: https://www.xylovan.com/xylovan/)
I’ve dreamed of installing the big xylophone in front of the house ever since we moved in five years ago.
My son and I finally picked up the all instruments from storage in LA and brought them home in January. I have another project in the works using keys from the other big keyboard - details to come as it comes together.
Over the past few weeks I polished up all the keys, built new resonators, and rebuilt the top end of the frame to fix the ugly gap that used to be there to allow it to mount cleanly on the van’s flanks. It’s a lot purtier now.
This morning I dug holes for the four legs with a posthole digger and then lowered the frame into place with the help of friends and neighbors.
I plumbed and leveled things with the frame parallel to the little slope in front of the house ( at a nice, playable 40-degree angle), set the legs in place with small stones to steady them, and poured in and then doused a bag of quickset concrete for each.
Tomorrow I mount the new resonators and reinstall 2-1/2 octaves worth of aluminum keys.
It’s happening. I’m stoked.
I’ve dreamed of installing the big xylophone in front of the house ever since we moved in five years ago.
My son and I finally picked up the all instruments from storage in LA and brought them home in January. I have another project in the works using keys from the other big keyboard - details to come as it comes together.
Over the past few weeks I polished up all the keys, built new resonators, and rebuilt the top end of the frame to fix the ugly gap that used to be there to allow it to mount cleanly on the van’s flanks. It’s a lot purtier now.
This morning I dug holes for the four legs with a posthole digger and then lowered the frame into place with the help of friends and neighbors.
I plumbed and leveled things with the frame parallel to the little slope in front of the house ( at a nice, playable 40-degree angle), set the legs in place with small stones to steady them, and poured in and then doused a bag of quickset concrete for each.
Tomorrow I mount the new resonators and reinstall 2-1/2 octaves worth of aluminum keys.
It’s happening. I’m stoked.
Was this a Burning Man thing? Or am I mixing up my narratives?
@ba that it was. See link in the description.
Wow!
Yesterday's Deer no. 2
Vale Gene Shalit
LEGO Sagrada Familia
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a completed LEGO Sagrada Familia model rests on a plinth overlooking Barcelona, Spain
Finally
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cancellation chat screenshot between me and a hilton re, with me giving the reason "Hilton's support of brutish ICE activities against the American people."
Finally disconnected all my autopay etc. I've been a Gold or Diamond members since 2011.
Bastards ruined a great thing. We probably had more than 100 nights free in that time, often upgraded to to suites.
Bastards ruined a great thing. We probably had more than 100 nights free in that time, often upgraded to to suites.
Weird unit
Yesterday's Deer no. 1
Double-cheese no onions, side of fries
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The Workingman's Friend restaurant and bar in Indianapolis.
Today's lunch spot in West Indy. Been around since 1918. Cash only, 21+, limited hours. And a *damn* good cheeseburger.
Raw onions, mayo, mustard, pickles, and cheese for me please.
That’s my kinda lunch joint
Peak restaurant aesthetic.
Got the NBA App to generate python code for me
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Just chipotle'd it with the question:
> Adam Silver, the commissioner of the nba, has a new lottery draft pick requirement: the first place team must show how to do a binary sort in python before making a pick. how would they do this and what team will be doing this in the 2026 draft
> Adam Silver, the commissioner of the nba, has a new lottery draft pick requirement: the first place team must show how to do a binary sort in python before making a pick. how would they do this and what team will be doing this in the 2026 draft
fizzbuzz and how many golfballs fit into a small family car are inevitably next
"Ask about the N.ational B.inary A.rray"
(sorry, that's all the jokes my brain got today)
(sorry, that's all the jokes my brain got today)
You did this? That's hilarious
My first mural update #2
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This a couple of days ago. Nearing completion. It’s one of the few shots where the scissor lift isn’t in the way. Since then, I’ve done a lot more work and added lots of lines. Today I decided it to be finished. Tomorrow we’re going to add a top coat.
And on Saturday, there is going to be an official opening and neighborhood party, because two other murals in my neighborhood accidentally have been finished in the last two months as well. So we decided to team up our festivities.
If you’re in Rotterdam on Saturday, June 13, drop by at the corner of Assendelftstraat and Adamshofstraat. 15 PM sharp!
On Google Maps, you can still get a glimpse of what the previous rather dilapidated mural looked like. Nobody was happy with it:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/yM4zbyUP...
#mural #rotterdam #painting
And on Saturday, there is going to be an official opening and neighborhood party, because two other murals in my neighborhood accidentally have been finished in the last two months as well. So we decided to team up our festivities.
If you’re in Rotterdam on Saturday, June 13, drop by at the corner of Assendelftstraat and Adamshofstraat. 15 PM sharp!
On Google Maps, you can still get a glimpse of what the previous rather dilapidated mural looked like. Nobody was happy with it:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/yM4zbyUP...
#mural #rotterdam #painting
I love how it rises naturally from the grass.
I'm sure the people in the neighbourhood will love it.
Well done you.
I'm sure the people in the neighbourhood will love it.
Well done you.
It's beautiful. I wish it was in my neighborhood.
@joost thanx! I have to add I did take a little the most favorable spot to take a picture from. If you stand right in front of it a rather small tree is in the way. I do hope it won’t get too big 🙂
It’s so cute because there’s a school on the square as well, and every day these primary school kids come by and they all look at the mural for minutes and minutes, inspecting all the creatures and flowers I have put into it. It’s super rewarding.
It’s so cute because there’s a school on the square as well, and every day these primary school kids come by and they all look at the mural for minutes and minutes, inspecting all the creatures and flowers I have put into it. It’s super rewarding.
modern love
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A man and woman embracing, her head replaced by a spiny green cactus and his by a pink balloon
Been on both sides of this one
Pearblossom Hwy., 11 - 18th April 1986, #2
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Collage made from Polaroid photos, by the late artist David Hockney, depicting a desert highway crossing from multiple points of view.
https://www.getty.edu/art...
A roommate of mine had an art book of these wonderful Polaroid collages that David Hockney was making back in the 80's, and I have always loved them.
A roommate of mine had an art book of these wonderful Polaroid collages that David Hockney was making back in the 80's, and I have always loved them.
I always wanted to do something like this, but at a buck a photo (in 1980 dollars!), there's no way I could splash the hundreds or thousands of dollars necessary.
A decade and a half later I was more or less off on a tangent, using cheap digital cameras and Photoshop and coming up with a style of my own.
https://mltshp.com/p/1RO0A
Interestingly one of my early post-college jobs in the late 80s involved stints as a temp at several different offices at Polaroid, at one of them I managed to take home a few dozen packs (that a sales rep was going to throw out) of near-expiration ID photo cartridges. Same as the consumer product except with different color and gamma balance, meant to be paired with either electronic strobe or the proprietary ID photo flashbars they also sold. The film gave everything a kind of metallic hue when I would take street photos, was never totally sure whether that was intentional or because of their age.
A decade and a half later I was more or less off on a tangent, using cheap digital cameras and Photoshop and coming up with a style of my own.
https://mltshp.com/p/1RO0A
Interestingly one of my early post-college jobs in the late 80s involved stints as a temp at several different offices at Polaroid, at one of them I managed to take home a few dozen packs (that a sales rep was going to throw out) of near-expiration ID photo cartridges. Same as the consumer product except with different color and gamma balance, meant to be paired with either electronic strobe or the proprietary ID photo flashbars they also sold. The film gave everything a kind of metallic hue when I would take street photos, was never totally sure whether that was intentional or because of their age.
Practicing an Art
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Large, hanging greyscale quilt with a small caricature profile of Kurt Vonnegut in his traditional style. A large speech bubble states "Practicing an art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow."
Visiting Indianapolis for a couple of days just to knock the rust off and clear out the cobwebs. Stopped by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library this morning to pay my respects (and hit up the gift shop!). https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/
This piece was a group effort from the Indy Modern Quilt Guild and was made in 2020. More info available at their site: https://www.indymqg.com/practici...
This piece was a group effort from the Indy Modern Quilt Guild and was made in 2020. More info available at their site: https://www.indymqg.com/practici...
love this. exactly the message i needed to see today.
This quote is in my collected quote list and sometimes is the quote I rewrite by hand as part of my morning practice. Though mine is worded slightly different:
"To practice any art, no matter how well, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."
"To practice any art, no matter how well, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."
Agreed!
🚑
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Wherever she is I hope she's doing well
My hunch is, she is doing well.
I have seen this one thousand times, and it makes me happier every time I see it.
▶️ "Cry Baby" | Vince Staples
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album art: a grotesque, crying baby, meant to evoke a certain infantile world leader, sits center frame in a US flag-patterned diaper, over a magenta background.
oh wow, it's wild to see such a big artist like vince staples show up on bandcamp. this just released last week and it's wondrous.
stream // purchase // download:
https://vincestaples.bandcamp.com/album...
stream // purchase // download:
https://vincestaples.bandcamp.com/album...
Vince is so, so good. He did a livestreamed release-performance at the El Rey in Los Angeles that is well worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
@ufez oooooh nice, i will cue this up soon!
A post post
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I went to New York and I took some pictures. Some with my phone, and some with my camera. They are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos...
Half Sisters!!!
These are very nice! and you were 2 blocks away from my home with your "patriot" photo
You can carry basslines...
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what an excellent essay!
get in loser, we're going to naptime
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vintage photo of a young boy standing by a toy car
ancient technology
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a print wheel - aka daisywheel, from its shape of many letter "petals" arranged around a central hub - from a Diablo printer
nicked from: https://laughtonelectronics.com/oldsite...
give me your answer, do.
At first I thought this was a slide carousel, which is also ancient tech
The only time I got within the orbit of a daisy wheel was when I tried to get my dad to buy a Coleco Adam.
mood
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animation loop of a smiling red-haired cartoon cavegirl in tattered tunic and skirt shimmying happily with eyes shut to music coming from a record player whose tone arm is a bird dragging its beak on the record.
It was mentioned earlier this week but I do miss @tonyb ‘s Friday Dance Party posts
@BennyTheIcepick Seconded.
One millionth'ed!
Threesome
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Rear courtyard of a deli/lunch joint in my hood
MF Dooooom!!!
ALL CAPS when you say the man's name.
But Jordan is:
A. Still alive.
B. Still a dick.
A. Still alive.
B. Still a dick.