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Elegant Street Interventions by D. Billy

by Simone Davalos at 11:34 AM on July 15, 2008

guest post by Simone Davalos D. Billy, an artist from Brooklyn, improves his surroundings with impermanent onomatopoeia, among other things: Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found…

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1 Wall / 25 Gears, A Benefit For Todd Blair

by Simone Davalos at 2:17 PM on July 14, 2008

[Ed. note: I originally posted this on my other site, Scott has kindly asked that I re-post it here, and I am happy to oblige.] It’s always hard to have one of your own down. The accident happens, the drama occurs, the people flurry to help, it’s what everyone’s talking about, and we all revel…

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Snarky McF*ckButtons – Wear What You’re *Really* Thinking

by Simone Davalos at 3:06 PM on July 1, 2008

guest post by Simone Davalos We’ve been wearing these little ditties around for a while now, since they mysteriously turned up by the bucketful for RoboexoticUS last spring, courtesy that lovable artistic misanthrope, CTP. CTP has been making buttons for years for various reasons, and he was broken into starting Snarky McF*ckbuttons because of all…

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Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork

by Simone Davalos at 6:59 PM on June 25, 2008

guest post by Simone Davalos The Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork is a neat earthwork science/art project along the lines of the Lighting Field or the Roden Crater. The Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork (PIEQF) is a geologically interactive, kinetic earthwork that will take place in the township of Parkfield, Central California between the 28th June and…

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Beautiful Music Made From Windows XP & 98 Sounds

by Simone Davalos at 7:52 PM on May 27, 2008

Introducing our newest guest blogger, the wonderful Simone Davalos of Suicide Bots and RoboGames. – Scott Noodling around this evening I StumbledUpon this nifty video of a piece of music made entirely out of alert sounds from windows XP and 98, made and posted on YouTube by SomethingUnreal. Not only is it a good thing…

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