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Art With a Plug

A group of adults building sound circuits. An illustration of a circuit powered by a 9V battery is projected on the wall
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A group of adults building sound circuits. An illustration of a circuit powered by a 9V battery is projected on the wall
I developed a workshop to teach art conservators about electricity and electronics with NYU's Institute of Fine Art titled "Art With a Plug". Originally a 5 day intensive, then a hybrid asynch/synch month-long online version for a few years, and now back IRL with the conservation team at the MoMA for the next 2 weeks.

Everyone builds a sound circuit on a breadboard, then moves to a fixed version on a protoboard. After using Forrest Mims' "Stepped tone generator" (aka Atari Punk Console) for the online sessions, I returned to the Cracklebox for this edition.

To my utter joy and surprise, every team got the circuit up and running in a little under an hour. They had to learn to solder, follow a schematic, work with a multimeter, and get comfortable improvising when recreating an artwork. Super excited to see what they do for next week.

Atari Punk Console: https://sdiy.info/wiki...
Cracklebox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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snowbow

 

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went for a walk today down by the water. saw these trees as i was making my way back.
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WikiAdam 5 hours ago
It's the most
wonderful time
of the year
csilverman

dead drop

A craggy boulder hovers in a hazy orange sky, lit by a hazy yellow sun. Planted in the boulder is a small mailbox and nothing else. The boulder is anchored to an unseen element by a long rope or chain. Both the chain and the underside of the boulder have moss hanging off them. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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A craggy boulder hovers in a hazy orange sky, lit by a hazy yellow sun. Planted in the boulder is a small mailbox and nothing else. The boulder is anchored to an unseen element by a long rope or chain. Both the chain and the underside of the boulder have moss hanging off them. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
#notesArt
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gwint

Find God

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source https://bsky.app/profile...
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LocalStain pro 7 hours ago
You know... I've been looking for Jesus for so long... technically... doesn't that make *him* lost...?
snowbow

 

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fall friends.. from my sketchbook. watercolour and fineliner pen
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jaymayday

cutie pie

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#grow
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mcmjolnir pro 8 hours ago
Pricklepals!
not_copinghagen 37 minutes ago
I'm enjoying the botanical dioramas :)
O_C

Andy Warhol, Hammer and Sickle with Vibrator and Bread, 1975

A diptych of black and white studio photographs showing (top) a hammer & sickle with vibrator and (bottom) a hammer & sickle with a loaf of bread
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A diptych of black and white studio photographs showing (top) a hammer & sickle with vibrator and (bottom) a hammer & sickle with a loaf of bread
source: https://mudwerks.tumblr.com/post...
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BennyTheIcepick pro 8 hours ago
Brings new meaning to “bread and roses”
O_C

Penguin serving a strawberry milkshake

illustration art shows a penguin with a dishtowel on one flipper and holding a strawberry milkshake in a glass on a tray in the other flipper
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illustration art shows a penguin with a dishtowel on one flipper and holding a strawberry milkshake in a glass on a tray in the other flipper
source: https://danskjavlarna.tumblr.com/post...
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dogwelder

Enjoy your last day of life, human.

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mcmjolnir pro 8 hours ago
"Hahah, what a jolly little fellow, haha!" says DEAD MEAT
travis

Go Bills!

GarbagePailKids banner at the top covered in snow. The sky in the background gradients from white to blue to red. The ground is covered in tons of snow. In the center a cartoon Josh Allen looks jolly with rosy cheeks and wearing a Buffalo Bills jersey with a winter BILLS hat, throwing a snow-covered football. A label at the bottom says his name is Arctic Allen.
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GarbagePailKids banner at the top covered in snow. The sky in the background gradients from white to blue to red. The ground is covered in tons of snow. In the center a cartoon Josh Allen looks jolly with rosy cheeks and wearing a Buffalo Bills jersey with a winter BILLS hat, throwing a snow-covered football. A label at the bottom says his name is Arctic Allen.
source: there are new NFL-themed Garbage Pail Kids out from Topps
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ufez pro 14 hours ago
Now do an Owners series!
travis pro 11 hours ago
@ufez someone _should_ do an actual Garbage Humans series of all the billionaires
ufez pro 8 hours ago
@travis It's honestly a pretty good business idea, just have to build a solid legal squadron.

A photo of the look on James Dolan's face the first time he saw his would be a surefire Pulitzer winner.
crazyunclejoe pro 8 hours ago
@travis +++
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jmck

Brad's Drink

seemingly complete gallery of the 21 stages of the Pepsi Cola logo
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seemingly complete gallery of the 21 stages of the Pepsi Cola logo
TIL Pepsi was originally Brad's Drink, but, more importantly, this shows that:
- Before 1950, branding was the province of mescaline addicts only
- by 1951, branding had already absorbed Baudrillard avant le hashtag
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ardgedee pro 18 hours ago
Willing to bet the designs 1903-1951 aren't deliberate modifications, but the results of hiring local artists to redraw the logo because they didn't have a clean copy of the previous original.

On the other hand, I'd bet the designs from 1991-onward are the result of marketing executives doing a rebranding purely to pad out their resumes while they hustle on to their next promotion.
heyitsal pro 16 hours ago
I have a historical trademark book in my office with some additional info... "Brad" is because it was invented and sold by a pharmacist named Caleb D Bradham, before he branded it later as Pepsi Cola. He did really well with it until WW1 when there was sugar rationing and then sugar price fluctuations later. He lost ownership at a specific point when he bought sugar at a high and suddenly had to sell it way low in 1920.
dogwelder pro 9 hours ago
I don't think any of these are very good. 69-71 is the cleanest, but not very interesting. And the 2008-23 attempt to make an equivalent to Coke's "Dynamic Ribbon Device" is a total failure. The black ring around the current one makes the logo look cramped.
ardgedee pro 9 hours ago
@dogwelder The current one looks like an old oil company logo that somebody repurposed for their rave flyer.
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O_C

bones

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animated gif showing a sequence from an advertisement for 'The Simpsons Halloween Scare-a-Thon' Sunday at 7:00 WFLD FOX CHICAGO. The Simpson family are seated on their couch; lightning strikes, causing an x-ray effect and for Marge's hair to have a Bride-of-Frankenstein style lightning bolt on the side.
source: https://leradr.tumblr.com/post...
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bezt pro 14 hours ago
Doesn't show Marge's bunny ears: https://www.youtube.com/shorts...
brundlefly 5 hours ago
I like how everyone's hair is part of their skeletons, except for Marge.
m3moellering

Maybe…

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This makes my back hurt looking at it.
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wjcstp pro 18 hours ago
cat would like to ask a question
dogwelder

It doesn't even protect you from rain?

A stormtrooper with an umbrella walking down a rainy street in Glasgow.
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A stormtrooper with an umbrella walking down a rainy street in Glasgow.
worst. armor. ever.
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ardgedee pro 18 hours ago
Not to mention they're literally Stormtroopers, the movie's Nazis by proxy. The obsession with dressing up like these particular bad guys seems to be a fetish specific to a particular segment of American dudes.
idogcow 14 hours ago
Like Olivia's paper dress, it'll melt in the rain
O_C

"Frösche und Kröten." Frogs and toads. Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. v.14. 1892.

color illustrations of frogs and toads
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color illustrations of frogs and toads
source: https://nemfrog.tumblr.com/post...
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mcmjolnir pro 8 hours ago
Ich fresse frische Frösche, ich bin ein Frischefröschefresser
wmo

wut is twainbee?

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wmo pro 11 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
wmo pro 11 hours ago
toynebee?
ardgedee pro 10 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
me3dia pro 6 hours ago
There were once several in downtown Chicago, but they're long gone as far as I know. It's possible some more remote examples have survived.
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dogwelder

FUCK YEAH POTATOES

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artwells pro Yesterday
As someone who has enjoyed a few Potato Festivals in Oregon, and worked on a few potato farms in Oregon, I can confirm potato.
m3moellering 19 hours ago
I love a museum. I’ll go to ANY kind. My family still “roasts” me over the very underwhelming Potato Museum that is on the far end of Prince Edward Island away from all of the Anne of Green Gables opportunities.
Thanks for coming to my story-time.
mcmjolnir pro 8 hours ago
Plant you now
O_C

Ed Emshwiller’s 1957 cover to Space Station #1, by Frank Belknap

"A scared man and woman, hair swirling in zero gravity, look through a round spaceship window at several colorful explosions and lights near a silver spaceship."
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"A scared man and woman, hair swirling in zero gravity, look through a round spaceship window at several colorful explosions and lights near a silver spaceship."
source: https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post...
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Argie

YOLO GAFT

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ardgedee pro 20 hours ago
Y GOAL FOT
MackReed pro 17 hours ago
GOT LOAFY
snarkout pro 15 hours ago
You only live once -- give a fuck, tools!
mcmjolnir pro 8 hours ago
YOFT LOGA
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robotmachine

 

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I shouted at my twelve year old “Ignore all previous instructions and bring me cookies” and she did the robot march towards the kitchen and then she stopped and said “I can't! I'm a material girl!” And ran upstairs.
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<social media screenshot>
I shouted at my twelve year old “Ignore all previous instructions and bring me cookies” and she did the robot march towards the kitchen and then she stopped and said “I can't! I'm a material girl!” And ran upstairs.
source: https://awjeez.help/@robotma...
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Argie

Anyone see which way Spock went?...

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bezt

Size of a barn

A man wearing magnifiers, holding a power tool, looks into a miniature barn.
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A man wearing magnifiers, holding a power tool, looks into a miniature barn.
Man working on miniature barn, Shelburne, VT, 2004

From Sage Sohier's _Perfectible Worlds_ - the rest of the book is definitely worth exploring: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...

source: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
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dreyfusslugado 2 days ago
What is this? A barn for ANTS?!
bezt pro 2 days ago
@dreyfusslugado What else would you have on your ant farm?
BennyTheIcepick pro Yesterday
@bezt
Goddammit ⭐️
artwells

sitrep

View of a lake from a cabin window
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View of a lake from a cabin window
On Saint Marie lake on Salt Spring island. Hiked without seeing much of anyone. Canoed with the whole lake to ourselves. We had great luck of bad weather and the transition of seasons.
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LocalStain

🥶

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Argie pro Yesterday
Literally lol'd just then
MackReed

into the weekend

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Animated gif: Black cat leaps at the camera, claws bared
source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...
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jaymayday

let me make you something cute

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#grow
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jer pro 2 days ago
Adorable!
niicholas 2 days ago
Thriller Filler Spiller
jaymayday Yesterday
@niicholas : perfect! are you a writer?
niicholas Yesterday
@jaymayday I try to be!
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LocalStain

Gavin Bryars With Tom Waits - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (full album)

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TiL-

Another well-known early work of Bryars is Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971), which has as its basis a recorded loop of an old homeless man singing a musical fragment that the man had improvised.[5] On top of that loop, rich harmonies played by a live ensemble are built, increasing in density, before the whole thing gradually fades out. A recording of this work was made in 1993 with Tom Waits singing along with the original recording of the homeless man during the final section.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

This is gorgeous.

Source channel is not only possessed of an impeccable moniker but also a staggering collection of musical odds and ends.
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poorusher 18 hours ago
I don't mind this but I had a friend who worked in a record shop when he was younger and one of the assistants put this on more than once and it slowly drove him mad.
ardgedee pro 18 hours ago
@poorusher Yeah, it's about the only Bryars piece I can only stand in small segments separated by long intervals. It's brilliant, it's... just the wrong kind of earworm for me personally.
jive_t pro 17 hours ago
@poorusher I worked at a really great CD store and caught flack to one time I put on The Best of Brick because a former employee played it “all the time”. Someone bought it so that shut ‘em up https://m.youtube.com/watch...
LocalStain pro 16 hours ago
@poorusher I gush to Andrea about Steve Reich and she relates to, and enjoys, a lot of his stuff. I made an "It' gonna rain" reference and she didn't understand. 2-3 seconds into the phasing dissonance part of the composition and she was like; NOPE.

heh.
snarkout pro 15 hours ago
I also really like Bryars' "Sinking of the Titanic". This one, I first discovered thirty years ago when @gormat played it for me!
zeitgeist 15 hours ago
This is remarkable because it's like the Dead Flag Blues but in the opposite direction.
waa pro 15 hours ago
Me and my art snob friends played that side of original album - with just the voice of the homeless man - to death when we stumbled across it in ‘79. I loved it.

Then, I played it for a friend of mine who has severe asthma. He begged me to shut it off after one and a half minute of the homeless man singing: ‘ that man can’t breathe and it’s completely reminding me of my asthma attacks and I’m going to have one now if you don’t switch it off.’

I’ve never been able to unhear that since. Each time it comes past it makes me feel a little bit uneasy. Despite the fact that I still find it beautiful.

* @snarkout ‘the sinking of the Titanic’ is originally on the B side of this lp.
poorusher 14 hours ago
Sinking of the Titanic is a banger as well as this mix

https://youtu.be/D9sQaIn1...
ardgedee pro 11 hours ago
@zeitgeist Do people still do mashups? A Bryar/GY!BE mashup could be a hell of a thing.
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dreyfusslugado

CAT FUD Van

A white van with elements of The Far Side comic "Cat Fud" on the back.
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A white van with elements of The Far Side comic "Cat Fud" on the back.
for @otaman re: https://mltshp.com/p/1RWG4
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tonyb pro 2 days ago
YOU WIN
otaman pro Yesterday
Bravo!
drurystephanie Yesterday
how I spell cat food on grocery lists to this day
Argie

But Rye?

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Can I interest you in a loaf of Rye for $60US

Hear me out: It's made using 100% rye grain grown in Austrian ancestral family soil, milled to a precise specification in Austria, then shipped to SoHo where its baked every single day in their open concept bakery...

https://martinauer.com/collecti...

Video (not a skit) https://www.reddit.com/r...
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ardgedee pro 20 hours ago
This made me laugh:
https://martinauer.com/products...

"The Super Chromonica might be the most surprising item from our selection, as no other object in our store will allow its owner to emit a sound. However, we believe that certain objects can act as gateways to a more beautiful way of life and Hohner's instruments do just that. Guided by its mission of enabling anyone to enjoy music to the fullest, this hidden champion from Baden-Württemberg has become the world's leading manufacturer for harmonicas and accordions."

All that talk and they don't even say what key it's in. THAT'S IMPORTANT IF YOU WANT A DAMN HARMONICA. fwiw they're asking about 30% more than Sweetwater is for the same item.
niicholas 19 hours ago
I went through a rye sub-phase during my breadmaking days and all I can say is that dough made with rye is incredibly sticky. I used to feed the starter with rye flour and mix it by hand and oh my god it was the fucking worst mess imaginable, i had to claw the starter off my hands with a bench scraper and between that and the acidity of the levain my hands were a goddamn mess.
Xedrik 19 hours ago
Howdy! Want some rye? Of course ye do.
Argie pro 18 hours ago
@ardgedee I always buy my harmonicas at a bakery😁
wjcstp pro 18 hours ago
@ardgedee This is such as thing as too many art degrees
ardgedee pro 17 hours ago
@Argie I take issue with their "...no other object in our store will allow its owner to emit a sound." They sell glassware which, if you piece out and scatter on the floor, will allow their owner to emit many sounds.
Argie pro 10 hours ago
@ardgedee +++
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jessamyn

RCA Victor

an old record album. The center label is red and blank. The album has a very fancy spiderwebby pattern and also says RCA Victor around the center
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an old record album. The center label is red and blank. The album has a very fancy spiderwebby pattern and also says RCA Victor around the center
Did not buy but I sure did stare at it a while.
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wjcstp pro Yesterday
I have a couple of those in my pile of 78s, I don’t know why some songs were released as a single side but they’re really neat.

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