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The first edition of Sonar Kids took place recently as part of the Sonar 2009 International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. Where a few hours earlier there were people dancing and drinking, the next morning there was an invasion of strollers, pacifiers, diapers and children holding their parent’s hands.
Sonar Kids mixes the party [...]
PSFK is happy to announce the publication of our newest book, PSFK Snapshot Brooklyn. From the more obscure corners of the borough to just off the G train, we’ve gathered over 40 of the most inspiring shops, restaurants, galleries, venues, movements and happenings from around the diverse neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York.
PSFK Snapshot Brooklyn [...]
To observe the thirtieth birthday of the Sony Walkman, BBC News Magazine persuaded a thirteen year old iPod user—reared with the coddling comforts of touchscreens and 10,000 song playlists—to trade his player in for its stark ancestor. The piece is an interesting examination of not simply the obvious changes in industrial design and device function [...]
As the new week begins, Glastonbury 2009 will have drawn to a close. Apart from the fantastic line-up of bands, this year’s festival was treated to a unique installation as part of the BBC’s Poetry Season: an interactive Twitter poem. Called GlastoPoem, the project took an RSS feed from Twitter of all tweets with the [...]
This past week Scandinavians and Scandophiles across the world helped bring in the season with local Summer Solstice Celebrations…
As part of this month’s Sing London festival, thirty pianos—part of artist Luke Jerram’s ‘Play Me, I’m Yours‘ traveling art tour—have been dispersed throughout the city, encouraging spontaneous pedestrian music. The instruments, either donated or purchased on the cheap off eBay, are free to use and available to anyone who wishes to take a seat—and [...]
The World Famous Design Junkies have recently stumbled upon a great little upcycling hack. They noticed a number of people re-using the plastic from old credit cards as guitar picks. While many of these DIY tools are hand cut, a company named PickPunch has developed a handheld punching device that makes the shaping process very [...]
Some people accept the demise of the physical album as an inevitability, others embrace it. Like Mos Def: He’s releasing his latest album, The Ecstatic, as a T-shirt. How does that work? The T-shirt has The Ecstatic Killer of Sheep-interpolating cover art printed on the front, song titles on the back, and a download [...]
Running and technology have been on a collision course since Nike introduced their Plus training products. Now, creating playlists for your workout is simple. iTunes offers training mixes hosted by runners like Kara Goucher or even artists like De La Soul. However, it’s also simple to create your own mix to your pace with some [...]
PSFK recently wrote about the crowd-sourced-design of Australian beer ‘Nelson’. The Melbourne-based micro brewery has recently teamed up with local Indie band The Temper Trap to design a limited-edition label for the brew. The now London-based band collaborated alongside graphic artist Reece Hobbins to visually represent their unique sound.
Mess and Noise explains:
a white silhouetted human [...]
The New York Times has published a piece detailing the closing of New York City’s last remaining large-scale record store. This past weekend, the remaining Virgin Megastore shop in New York (and North America) shut down, sending out yet another sign signalling the death of the physical media format.
Though, as one employee noted, record stores [...]
Matt Jones has a t-shirt with a secret. Similar to a QR code, there is a hidden layer of information embedded into the design.
The pattern of dots and spaces can be mapped onto a Tenori-On electronic musical instrument (or an iPhone simulator of the device), and will produce the sounds below.
tenori-on t-shirt by moleitau
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Robin Pecknold, of the band Fleet Foxes shares his views on the state of the music scene with the BBC. He believes that the rise of illegal downloading has been good for music, helping to inspire and inform creative new acts.
Pecknold explains:
“As much music as musicians can hear, that will only make music richer as [...]
Zoybar is an open musical instrument development platform, implementing some very innovative ideas that are usually thrown around only in the realm of software development. The instrument’s components can be swapped in and out, and a standardized structure means newly-developed components can be easily integrated with existing designs. Explains the Zoybar site:
Think of the Zoybar [...]
Switzerland: 1954. The now iconic yellow jersey of the Brazilian soccer team makes its debut in a major competition, the World Cup. As the Brazilian team enters the field all dressed in yellow, the radio broadcaster Geraldo José de Almeida spontaneously creates the nickname that would characterize the team from that day on: Canarinho (“Little [...]
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