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made a thing
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Soooo, I've been banging away on this crazy thing (first with tools, then with fingers and mallets) since last February when I first sketched the design.
Someone gave me access to one of these insane stainless steel table bases (hidden here by the table top that I fabricated) which had been chucked into a dumpster in Bellevue as flawed by some furniture/decor company that didn’t want to pay to ship them back to Europe for a refund.
The Jam Table is 5 feet in diameter and 34 inches off the floor, designed for four musicians.
Clockwise from bottom are a xylophone, percussion rack (with a kick drum built into the table base), propane-tank tongue drum, and - god help me - I scratch-built a standup bass into the table.
On Saturday, I debuted it at SEACompression (Seattle's post-Burning Man party) and people seemed to have a good time plinking, banging, and drumming on it together.
Only one small casualty - a little fish-shaped woodblock on the perch rack needs to be reglued), and one good lesson learned - It either wants amplification or placement in a quiet room so you can hear the bass properly. We were sited next to a dubstep sound system, which kinda swallowed half the sound.
I'll also be modifying the bass neck to add a torsion cable to counteract the string tension and - I fervently hope - reduce the tuning/futzing time to something less than 1 hour.
And I might *just* be in talks with a certain beloved local radio station to get it sited in or near its Gathering Space. Details if and as they develop.
Full build log with photos and videos here: https://www.xylovan.com/jam-table/
Someone gave me access to one of these insane stainless steel table bases (hidden here by the table top that I fabricated) which had been chucked into a dumpster in Bellevue as flawed by some furniture/decor company that didn’t want to pay to ship them back to Europe for a refund.
The Jam Table is 5 feet in diameter and 34 inches off the floor, designed for four musicians.
Clockwise from bottom are a xylophone, percussion rack (with a kick drum built into the table base), propane-tank tongue drum, and - god help me - I scratch-built a standup bass into the table.
On Saturday, I debuted it at SEACompression (Seattle's post-Burning Man party) and people seemed to have a good time plinking, banging, and drumming on it together.
Only one small casualty - a little fish-shaped woodblock on the perch rack needs to be reglued), and one good lesson learned - It either wants amplification or placement in a quiet room so you can hear the bass properly. We were sited next to a dubstep sound system, which kinda swallowed half the sound.
I'll also be modifying the bass neck to add a torsion cable to counteract the string tension and - I fervently hope - reduce the tuning/futzing time to something less than 1 hour.
And I might *just* be in talks with a certain beloved local radio station to get it sited in or near its Gathering Space. Details if and as they develop.
Full build log with photos and videos here: https://www.xylovan.com/jam-table/
Dayum!
RAD!
*gasps*
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https://www.threads.com/@mollyin...
‘Titled "Re-Matriate: Home/Land/Security," the piece consists of about 19,000 salmon vertebrae ground down into bead-like shapes. The bones were sourced from the Cook Inlet watershed, namely from the Kenai River and Skilak Lake. Painstakingly arranged and sewn together in the shape of a tunic using more than 1,400 yards of red thread, the piece weighs in at around 7 pounds. According to Mouw, the design
itself took an entire year to complete.’
‘Titled "Re-Matriate: Home/Land/Security," the piece consists of about 19,000 salmon vertebrae ground down into bead-like shapes. The bones were sourced from the Cook Inlet watershed, namely from the Kenai River and Skilak Lake. Painstakingly arranged and sewn together in the shape of a tunic using more than 1,400 yards of red thread, the piece weighs in at around 7 pounds. According to Mouw, the design
itself took an entire year to complete.’
I guess something like this
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hell yeah to all of this but especially rodan, shellac, and polvo
Couple of notes
In 1994, I'd just graduated college and was working my first job at an editorial design firm. My co-worker, friend, and future business partner of 20 years sat 3 feet away from me along a half wall. His girlfriend's friend Andrea was going to Art School™ out east somewhere (I want to say Yale? RISD maybe?) and sent a tape of what was cool. Side A was Rodan "Rusty". Side B was Polvo "Celebrate the New Dark Age". I've never been the same.
A few months later, that same guy, Bill said "Hey, this guy who was the guitarist of a band I liked when I lived in Chicago is in a new band called Shellac. You should check them out." Moved to Chicago a few months later and must have seen Shellac 8 times over 5 years.
At a Shellac/Fugazi $5 show at the Rainbow Room skating rink they were playing music between The Make*Up and Shellac sets and I couldn't place it and tried to describe it to Bill over the phone and he guessed Gang of Four. That wasn't the band I heard but good god did I love "Entertainment". To this day I don't know what they were playing between sets.
I once turned to my wife and told her if she ever wanted to know what it sounded like in my head constantly this was it and put on Melvins "Hung Bunny". I could listen to the A side of that LP 1000 times and never get sick of it.
A lot of the goth/art kids in high school and college art classes were super into The Cure. I never got it. Then I somehow got ahold of their early stuff. That first 3 LP run is just such great post-punk. (I think that was $10 CAD BTW — found it in Montreal if I remember correctly.)
In 1994, I'd just graduated college and was working my first job at an editorial design firm. My co-worker, friend, and future business partner of 20 years sat 3 feet away from me along a half wall. His girlfriend's friend Andrea was going to Art School™ out east somewhere (I want to say Yale? RISD maybe?) and sent a tape of what was cool. Side A was Rodan "Rusty". Side B was Polvo "Celebrate the New Dark Age". I've never been the same.
A few months later, that same guy, Bill said "Hey, this guy who was the guitarist of a band I liked when I lived in Chicago is in a new band called Shellac. You should check them out." Moved to Chicago a few months later and must have seen Shellac 8 times over 5 years.
At a Shellac/Fugazi $5 show at the Rainbow Room skating rink they were playing music between The Make*Up and Shellac sets and I couldn't place it and tried to describe it to Bill over the phone and he guessed Gang of Four. That wasn't the band I heard but good god did I love "Entertainment". To this day I don't know what they were playing between sets.
I once turned to my wife and told her if she ever wanted to know what it sounded like in my head constantly this was it and put on Melvins "Hung Bunny". I could listen to the A side of that LP 1000 times and never get sick of it.
A lot of the goth/art kids in high school and college art classes were super into The Cure. I never got it. Then I somehow got ahold of their early stuff. That first 3 LP run is just such great post-punk. (I think that was $10 CAD BTW — found it in Montreal if I remember correctly.)
Also I probably cheated as I think both Lysol and Celebrate the New Dark Age are EPs
you wouldn’t …
I Voted!
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Winning “I Voted” Digital Sticker Design submitted by Halle G.
Design based on Mustang © 2008 Luis A. Jimenez, Jr.
Design based on Mustang © 2008 Luis A. Jimenez, Jr.
My 2026 General Election mail ballot has been counted! I got this cool "Blue Mustang" virtual sticker! Visit GoVoteColorado.gov for more election information
I mean, this just screams voter fraud. Horses can't vote!
@homerj DO NOT QUESTION THE POWER OF BLUCIFER
@jazon I had a project to design a kiosk for a Denver client. I drew a bunch of landmarks including Blucifer.
Everyone loved it. And then told me there was no way that could go into the kiosk.
Apparently Blucifer is litigious.
And given the fact he killed is maker, I wasn't going to mess with him.
Everyone loved it. And then told me there was no way that could go into the kiosk.
Apparently Blucifer is litigious.
And given the fact he killed is maker, I wasn't going to mess with him.
Promo ad for Minnesota alternative rock station 93.7
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Via Kottke https://mastodon.social/@kottke...
LOL how many "The Edge" stations were there?
I listened to REMs "It's the End of the World as We Know It" on repeat for an entire eight hour work shift when this radio station was coming on the air.
In addendum and for the record however Rev 104 and Radio K were the supreme rulers of my life in the Twin Cities.
my serenity
Tiny Chicago Homes
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Six highly varied stylized small prints of Chicago houses in two rows of three prints each: each row has a square-ish rowhouse sandwiched between two prints of detached houses.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"Working on my tiny Chicago homes. Here’s a peek at 6… 6 more to go ahead of their debut at Open House Chicago. All printed with small metal type and measuring less than 3” square."
"Working on my tiny Chicago homes. Here’s a peek at 6… 6 more to go ahead of their debut at Open House Chicago. All printed with small metal type and measuring less than 3” square."
Dingbatty!
I love these. Starshaped Press is fantastic.
These would make a great series of postage stamps!
9 albums: Canadian style
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!!LEONARD COHEN WAS SO OBVIOUS I FORGOT TO INCLUDE HIM!!
This is a culmination of two trains of thoughts inspired by all y'alls discussions & posts: the first is what our parents listened to and how it informed us; and the inclusions of certain Canadian artists that I'm like HOT DAMN YEAH! . . . I've been unable to stop thinking about both, so to calm my brain I'm makin' another set.
We didn't have a t.v. growing up, and what filled that space were tremendous amounts of books and music. My parents did not have a very large vinyl collection - I got the sense that Something Had Happened to their music collection, but never knew what - but the first 4 on this list were all a part of it and played A LOT. (They loved Ian & Sylvia and Ian Tyson solo, who I also adore, so I just picked one.) My dad loved playing music in the barn in particular, and Hank Snow and Gordon Lightfoot ringing from the barn as he worked on a tractor or played a song to "call in the cows" are an essential part of my childhood.
The second train: I've been wanting to make an "international version" of this list, because later in life I came around to so much elsewhere and I'm still growing, but an essential bridge from younger days to now has been music from Canada, and oh! how much I love it. I've worked quite a bit in Canada and always made a point of seeing local shows when I could, whether it was a good size venue in Calgary or a tiny little bar on Cape Breton (NS), and those wonderful Canadian artists have never disappointed.
Canada produces so much Good Shit. So shout out to Canada!
Honorable mentions:
Tegan & Sara
Great Lake Swimmers
Basia Bulat
The Band
The Weather Station
Be Good Tanyas
This is a culmination of two trains of thoughts inspired by all y'alls discussions & posts: the first is what our parents listened to and how it informed us; and the inclusions of certain Canadian artists that I'm like HOT DAMN YEAH! . . . I've been unable to stop thinking about both, so to calm my brain I'm makin' another set.
We didn't have a t.v. growing up, and what filled that space were tremendous amounts of books and music. My parents did not have a very large vinyl collection - I got the sense that Something Had Happened to their music collection, but never knew what - but the first 4 on this list were all a part of it and played A LOT. (They loved Ian & Sylvia and Ian Tyson solo, who I also adore, so I just picked one.) My dad loved playing music in the barn in particular, and Hank Snow and Gordon Lightfoot ringing from the barn as he worked on a tractor or played a song to "call in the cows" are an essential part of my childhood.
The second train: I've been wanting to make an "international version" of this list, because later in life I came around to so much elsewhere and I'm still growing, but an essential bridge from younger days to now has been music from Canada, and oh! how much I love it. I've worked quite a bit in Canada and always made a point of seeing local shows when I could, whether it was a good size venue in Calgary or a tiny little bar on Cape Breton (NS), and those wonderful Canadian artists have never disappointed.
Canada produces so much Good Shit. So shout out to Canada!
Honorable mentions:
Tegan & Sara
Great Lake Swimmers
Basia Bulat
The Band
The Weather Station
Be Good Tanyas
Roughly arranged in chronological order, so it's amusing the shit out of me what a big time jump there is between the two halves.
Hank Snow!
Oh hell. How could I not remember Gordon Lightfoot. Also, the Weakerthans are on my 21st century list for sure.
égalité, fraternité, panthère rosé!
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Nap Time
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A Shiba Inu dog, laying on his back with his feet in the air, on a wooden deck with trees in the background.
Murphy hard at work on his sleeping regime.
Dat back flap 😍
Protests in France - Kiran Ridley
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A protester in Paris wearing an 18th century period costume and reflective ski goggles against a background of black-clad protesters and smoke
French students put ours to shame
This is almost my ARC Raiders character.
"dress for the protest you want"
800 hamburgers!
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a deer next to a wooden fence. Text reads, "Adult deer are as tall as a bicycle. They weigh as much as 800 hamburgers."
Nap Time Continues
Juliet?
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Pic of cat on window sill, 4 floors up.
Did not pat.
Did not pat.
Tried to get this cutie to come down for a pat but he/she was very scathing of tourists. Pspsps might mean something else in Italian.
"hey la, my boyfriend's back"
@jessamyn +++
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ANALOG
Jazz
(the letter "O" is replaced by an illustration of a vinyl record, causing the word to appear as "Anal" on first glance. )
With Special Guest Artist
Michael Gregory
Celebrating a Variety of
Contemporary & Smooth Jazz
NO COVER CHARGE
SEPTEMBER 25th
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Jazz
(the letter "O" is replaced by an illustration of a vinyl record, causing the word to appear as "Anal" on first glance. )
With Special Guest Artist
Michael Gregory
Celebrating a Variety of
Contemporary & Smooth Jazz
NO COVER CHARGE
SEPTEMBER 25th
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Some Guy
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Near profile she of Guy Picciotto, whose eyes are looking away from the camera, a white man with black rectangular glasses, a black hoodie, and gray hair.
Interview from early 2026 with Guy Picciotto from Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Happy Go Licky, etc.
https://greedmagazine.substack.com/p...
Contains many, many good and interesting points about life as Fugazi, then, and life now. One such:
"Everything is about a negotiation and trying to figure out what is worth it. Certainly, now, licensing is a huge part of the way musicians make their money, right? People feel like they’re forced into having to license their music for whatever. My feeling has always been the same: do whatever the fuck you want! I don’t give a fuck. But the idea that there’s no exchange happening, that is bullshit. For most people now, if Apple wants to use your music, you’re doing little flips in the air with joy, how happy you are to be associated with this thing. But that’s an exchange, and what you’ve done with your music is not without valence or without impact about what your music feels like and becomes. I understand why people make their decisions. I don’t judge it. We do plenty of things to make our music accessible to people that might feel compromising to me in some way – I hate algorithmic nonsense but our music is in that gross soup. And you can’t pretend that there’s not an exchange or that there’s not something resulting from it. It’s always irritated me that people think there’s something holier than thou about the idea of having…integrity is such a stupid word, but just having a code or a way of structuring your life that’s not solely based on a profit motive. There has to be some room for that, because otherwise, what is there?"
https://greedmagazine.substack.com/p...
Contains many, many good and interesting points about life as Fugazi, then, and life now. One such:
"Everything is about a negotiation and trying to figure out what is worth it. Certainly, now, licensing is a huge part of the way musicians make their money, right? People feel like they’re forced into having to license their music for whatever. My feeling has always been the same: do whatever the fuck you want! I don’t give a fuck. But the idea that there’s no exchange happening, that is bullshit. For most people now, if Apple wants to use your music, you’re doing little flips in the air with joy, how happy you are to be associated with this thing. But that’s an exchange, and what you’ve done with your music is not without valence or without impact about what your music feels like and becomes. I understand why people make their decisions. I don’t judge it. We do plenty of things to make our music accessible to people that might feel compromising to me in some way – I hate algorithmic nonsense but our music is in that gross soup. And you can’t pretend that there’s not an exchange or that there’s not something resulting from it. It’s always irritated me that people think there’s something holier than thou about the idea of having…integrity is such a stupid word, but just having a code or a way of structuring your life that’s not solely based on a profit motive. There has to be some room for that, because otherwise, what is there?"
#DEMSPECS
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS IMAGE?
https://i.imgur.com/jnLQq3f...
https://i.imgur.com/jnLQq3f...
It's always struck me as really funny that the Washington football team has been known to use "Waiting Room" as stadium music.
So, better than a free lunch, is what you're saying
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source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Do we say less billionaires, or fewer billionaires? I'm ok with either.
@urlnotfound ++++
I'm curious, Adam, when did you start huffing paint?
The Making of a Great Martini
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12 panels in 3 rows of four panels each. A man (painterly, abstracted, with a wide mustache and neat hair and wearing a dinner jacket) stands before a cocktail shaker, a martini glass, and a dish holding an olive. The next panels show his frenzied shaking of the shaker, with motion blurs a-plenty. In the final panel, he is standing again, his hair blown out, in front of a completed martini. The dish is empty. There is also a bottle of Absolut visible.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Lithograph by Guy Buffet, 2000. Also, if it were really perfect it would be stirred and made with gin.
Lithograph by Guy Buffet, 2000. Also, if it were really perfect it would be stirred and made with gin.
I unequivocally love this - except for the product placement, which robs it of its magic.
@MackReed Yeah, it is not dissimilar to Buffet's other work (which I looked up after seeing this) but it was commissioned by Absolut for an ad.
advertising is an underrated art medium
Moebius
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A color illustration by Moebius. It shows a young man with dark hair sitting at a desk with a sheet of paper in front of him with comic frames drawn on it. Behind him is a bookcase filled with books, and to his side is a round window.
I think this is him at a much younger age than usual in his drawings
I believe you are correct! Happy Monday !!
i guess?
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9 albums grid :
Big Star #1 Record, Aerosmith Rocks, Descendents Milo Goes to College, REM Murmur, Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine, Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique, Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction, Pavement Slanted and Enchanted, Tribe Called Quest Low End Theory
Big Star #1 Record, Aerosmith Rocks, Descendents Milo Goes to College, REM Murmur, Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine, Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique, Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction, Pavement Slanted and Enchanted, Tribe Called Quest Low End Theory
I mean, this is both an off the cuff and too long considered list? I guess this captures a certain kind of 80s transitioning into the 90s. Can't remember the last time I listened to Rocks or Appetite for Destruction but they definitely resonated deeply.
I would estimate we are the same age.
Appetite was a great record to come out for a 13 year old boy
Pavement is one of those bands I listened to soooooooo much and then one day just. . . didn't listen to them anymore for some reason. Same with Dinosaur Jr.
Wayne Mondok (Canadian, born 1961) Yellow Light
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A late (or possibly early?) winter scene with a small pond/large puddle reflecting yellow winter light. A grove of trees bare of leaves line the body of water.
ok fine
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9 album covers
ac/dc - back in black
led zeppelin - debut
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
wall of voodoo - call of the west
cowboy junkies - the trinity sessions
the spinanes - manos
the geraldine fibbers - butch
sleater-kinney - dig me out
pretty girls make graves - good health
ac/dc - back in black
led zeppelin - debut
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
wall of voodoo - call of the west
cowboy junkies - the trinity sessions
the spinanes - manos
the geraldine fibbers - butch
sleater-kinney - dig me out
pretty girls make graves - good health
may or may not be the most influential but my criteria was which albums/cds stayed on the player for absurdly long amounts of time
i don't have any of this media now and only a few songs are in my rotation
i don't have any of this media now and only a few songs are in my rotation
Call of the West, title track. 🖤
that lower right hand corner is tight!
Been dazed and confused, for so long it's not true...
devil dog?
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demon picking up a glowing red receiver
my ex wife calling…
Oil lamp
frenz
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Me and a skeleton
We had a lot of laughs.
In the reflection, my wife tolerating me.
In the reflection, my wife tolerating me.
Get you a wife who tolerates you and hold on tight.
My youth as well
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@Argie sent me a post from tens of thousands of miles away and I am very much appreciative.
I still contend that cartoons/comics are the greatest way to understand how the people are feeling.
Ta friend.
I still contend that cartoons/comics are the greatest way to understand how the people are feeling.
Ta friend.
Yay 😁 so happy to see the overseas ones rolling in today. I managed 48 for this years WPD, couldn't quite get to 50 (next year). Ditto on the comics thinking ❤️
A Clutch of Vampires
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This original pen and ink drawing by Edward Gorey was intended as a book cover illustration for Raymond T. McNally's anthology A Clutch of Vampires. It was used instead as an interior illustration. The artwork features five gracefully floating vampires and Gorey's masterly hatching technique.
A Clutch of Vampires by Edward Gorey (1974)
#halloween #gorey #31daysofhalloween #lauraehall
source:
Laura E. Hall's 31 days of Halloween - https://buttondown.com/31daysof...
#halloween #gorey #31daysofhalloween #lauraehall
source:
Laura E. Hall's 31 days of Halloween - https://buttondown.com/31daysof...
Man , Gorey’s illustrations are just so….fun? Spooky? Ethereal?
I dunno , but always an instant like.
I dunno , but always an instant like.
i have loved him since the first time I saw the PBS Mystery! opening credits as a child
That time of year!
9 off the dome
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I did this as fast as I could, just the first nine albums I thought of that were important to me. Pretty happy with this list, although now that I think of it, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Boxer should probably be in here instead of the Simon & Garfunkel or the Tull
_Ágætis byrjun_ and _Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme_ were also close run things for my list.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrout