http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:24:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/speaker-system-in-swedish-crispy-flat-bread.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:00:04 +0000 We recently came across this video of an audiophile troubleshooting a speaker system he built on some knäckebröd, a Swedish type of crispy flat bread.  The noisy cracker is actually an object built for a three day Sound Sculpture workshop at the Neon Gallery in Brösarp, Sweden. It doesn’t produce a very pleasant harmony and the wiring looks quite haphazard, but for those pushing the limits of experimental sound, this could be the music their waiting for.  Who knows? Maybe the next revolutionary speaker system will be built out of matzah, we’re already seeing cell phones made of corn.  WithoutRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/elevating-the-ordinary-the-food-art-of-kevin-van-aelst.html Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:33:29 +0000 Kevin Van Aelst, a New York Times Magazine photographer, takes playing with food to the next level with his collection of intricately patterned everyday artifacts. The artist statement on Van Aelst’s website captures the motivations for his particular style, The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life—the banalities of our daily lives, and the sublime notions of identity and existance.  While the depictions of information–such as an EKG, fingerprint, map or anatomical model–are unconventional, the truth and accuracy to the illustrations are just as valid as more traditional depictions.  This workRead more...]]>