this is wonderful

Hey, what are those things that guy is walking through - oh, just 100 million hand made/painted/fired ceramic sunflower seeds!



Crazy!

The newest Tate Modern Turbine hall installation is by the artist Ai Weiwei, and it is pretty incredible. Weiwei employed 1,600 workers from the traditional porcelain producing city of Jingdezhen who historically made porcelain wares for the Imperial court of China. More from the Guardian here, here and here.

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for your listening pleasure - the herdsire.

Ok. This is one of the more incredible things...ever. This alpaca, in the picture above, is named...Beretta! This is the description given on the website, "This herdsire has macho written all over him. From his proud presence and large testicles, to his amazing silky, high luster, independently locked suri fleece, to his light line breed pedigree."

No joke. Here is the website.

To commemorate this glorious discovery, I'm throwing up the recording of Alpaca Beretta on WRCT 88.3, CMU radio, on the show Advanced Calculus that we recorded on January 19th. I've recently split it up track by track, so hopefully that'll be fun for the whole family. Sound isn't the greatest on some tracks (maybe a little unbalanced) but it's pretty good on most. Here.

Bonus: Dani and I recorded Codeine by Buffy St. Marie when he and Margot visited Chicago. Here.

blakroc

Some of yinz probably know about this already, but this looks like a really sweet project between the Black Keys and a couple handfuls of hip-hop luminaries. Check it out!

Blakroc Project from Myrhax on Vimeo.

Found

I found this several years ago when I was working for my Dad and we were demo-ing a kitchen. Upon taking out a countertop and the cabinets underneath it, this was left over, lying on the floor. I was speechless for about an hour, I think.