One of “30 illustrations from the book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern. These diagrams outline causes of electrical accidents.” See the full set at Bre Pettis’ Facebook page.

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Bicycle Tornado is a sculpture by artist Christopher Fennell. I wanted to build a tornado out of old houses. (I still do!) While in line waiting to vote, I started up this conversation with one of the vice presidents of the university. I said tornado, she said Wizard of Oz. I paused and gaped; “I [...]

While searching my mess of bookmarks from the past 5 or so years, I stumbled across a site I hadn’t visited in a few years, and proceeded to bleep and bloop and buzz and whir away the next few hours. Some of them use Shockwave, which usually bugs me – I had to install it [...]

We are not human beings – at least not in the way in which we most commonly imagine ourselves to be human: flesh, blood, bone, muscle. We are more than a much more than a mass of prickling skin, twitching eyes and gnashing jaws, throbbing flesh and pulsing blood, all of which will ultimately fail [...]

Pferdzwackur’s Tin Man by Matt Sahr is a surreal retelling of the Wizard of Oz, from the Tin Man’s point of view. Listen to the first chapter: #1 We meet an untimely doom, and a scarecrow.

A man with bananas attached to his face lights the bananas on fire, causing them to explode.

Buried Alive is an amazing, and amazingly creepy installation by Carlos & Jason Sanchez, built from “Glass, Wood, Metal, Plexiglas, Foam, Silicone, Paint, Fiberglass, Servo Motors, Relay Timers, Servo Rcorder, Steamer, Moe Hair, Human Hair, Water.” Beginning tomorrow, February 21, Carlos & Jason Sanchez will be exhibiting large-scale photography at DNJ Gallery in Los Angeles.

Alamo, a radio play. Text: Rick Moody Music, Editing, Directing, Engineering: Bruce Odland Voices: Various Produced by Bruce Odland, Rick Moody, Curtis Fox, and Dean Olsher Originally broadcast in 2002 on “The Next Big Thing,” on WNYC-FM.

Kasai Allstars are a band from Kishasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa that makes amazing hand-built electronic music. From the Crammed Discs website: Using a spectacular mixture of acoustic instruments, electric guitars, distortion-laden thumb pianos and soulful vocals, Kasai Allstars include musicians all based in Kinshasa, DR Congo, but originating from five different ethnic [...]

My contribution to WFMU’s Great Corn Weenie Remix Challenge: Now You Can Sing the Song (Corn Weenie)