Maintaining their rep as viral video kings, Ok Go has released a music video for the song “This Too Shall Pass” that took months of planning. This one-shot video follows an elaborate Rube Golberg machine that’s as ridiculous as it is visually stunning. The band designed the machine with the help of Syyn Labs and continue reading…
We’ve learned to let go of our old cassette tapes. They make better art these days than a viable format for music anyway. But there’s something special about those little plastic cassettes that we just can’t let go of. Thanks to The Paper Tiger, we don’t have to. Cassette notepads are just the right continue reading…
Codemonkeys who love what they do may tell you that there’s a certain eloquence to good code that non web designers just can’t understand. Code Organ attempts to explains this concept through music. Analyzing the body of any web page through a complex algorithm, it creates a drum beat, synth style and musical notes. Experience continue reading…
Don’t worry, it only looks like they destroyed a few hundred irreplaceable vinyls to make this table. The Super Oldies Side Table is actually made of birch plywood with a photographic reproduction of old album sleeves stuck together and coated in poly-resin. Perfect for lovers of all things vintage or anyone still stuck in the continue reading…
They didn’t have to put speakers on a LEGO brick to let us know how much LEGOS rock, but we’re not complaining. Digital Blue and LEGO have teamed up to lego-ize electronics like this LEGO Brick Boombox. This official LEGO boombox is 10 times the size of a regular LEGO brick and puts the pegs continue reading…
Now you don’t have to look like a common street corner musician when you play the washboard thanks to this snazzy washboard tie. The Washboard Tie brings some much needed class to the jug band, even if it is a clip on. Included with the tie are 2 thimbles for strumming (or tapping or scraping, continue reading…
There’s a new theory out there that if you want people to change their behavior, you have to make it fun. It’s called the Fun Theory. The idea was put to the test when a subway staircase next to an escalator was transformed into a working piano that plays a note each time you take continue reading…
These nifty little speakers borrow some vintage style from Grandma’s old record player and apply it to modern technology. Thanks to the horn shape these speakers output great audio efficiently, only using 10 watts of power. The horns are made of high density fiber glass and the bases of void-free Baltic birth plywood. The Little continue reading…
Sure, you can play with a Lego cello but can you PLAY it? Apparently you can. LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya made this toy instrument of thousands of Lego bricks (and of course strings). And though it’s actual size and looks pretty close to a real cello it sounds quite different. The cello marks the artist’s continue reading…
If you’ve ever indulged in the urge to drum on your cookware with your wooden spoons then you’ll get a kick out of Mix Stix. These unique spoons flip over to become drum sticks that let you rock out while you cook. Mix Stix includes one solid spoon and one slotted spoon with a whole continue reading…