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So yesterday a little after midnight someone started banging on the door to my apartment. When I opened it I saw about 3 cops who told me that I had to get out because the roof was on fire. So I grabbed my keys and cellphone and leashed up the dogs and joined the other residents on the street where we watched fire fighters battle the flames on the roof. After about an hour it…
The rules are simple: using only 5 base samples, create a song. The hard part: no other audio may be used. This means no other digital audio, no synthesizers, no vocals, no instruments of any kind–just the 5 base samples. The fun part: you can process, chop up, fry, freak, and tweak the 5 samples in any way you want, using any tools you need. Here’s the first set of tracks created by enterprising musicians:…
I’ll be here! Sounds awesome. Sat. May. 19 – 8PM – 21+ – BUY TICKETS HERE! The Note, 1568 N. Milwaukee Ave, Wicker Park. C!BR 10 Year Anniversary Tour! CAPTURED BY ROBOTS Captured! By Robots was started back in 1996. Jason Vance could not get along human musicians and he decided to build himself a band . . . a band of robots. Shortly before their completion, he accidentally spilled coffee on their CPUs. When…
Remember the Quizno’s Coyote? On an ordinary April afternoon, the patrons of the downtown Chicago sandwich shop were treated to a surprise visit by a wild coyote who attempted to jump the counter but decided to settle into the beverage cooler instead. Animal control took him away, named him Adrian and set him back into the wild, but not before he captured a bit of fame and made for a new addition to the “IM…
Liz Revision Live at Celebrity 3-20-07 pt. 2 [128kbs] [192kbs] Track list with download links after the jump :
So I’m now the “poster girl” of sorts for iG0–it’s a nonprofit car sharing program in Chicago (and in other cities as part of the Flexcar network). You pay by the hour at a rate depending on the plan you choose, and you never have to pay for gas or insurance–it’s AWESOME. I first learned about it from an article online from one of the local Chicago papers and thought the concept was great. I…
I-GO AUDIO EMISSIONS CD RELEASE PARTY Thursday, May 31st @ the Metro, 3730 N Clark 7pm BUY TICKETS NOW AT www.metrochicago.com/shows or the Metro Box Office (3730 N Clark)! VIP tickets include food, a chance to win a DAHON bike. Did you ever get into an I-GO car and realize that you forgot your CD/iPod adapter? Soon you’ll be able to listen some of Chicago’s best local bands inside your favorite I-GO car on our…
Today I received a notice from my landlord’s lawyers that let me know they are not tearing down the Tower Building but they are converting it into 12 condos, one per floor. Pre-construction price: $1 M – $1.5 M each. Provided you can get a 20% downpayment together that would work out to around a $6,000 a month mortgage payment, which is quite a bit more than my budget for rent. I have signed a…
Chicagoist used my photochopped Bucket Seal picture when they reported on the Tower Building. Apparently the city has granted a temporary landmark status to the particular stretch of Milwaukee Ave that’s in Wicker Park, so no one can build on it until they vote whether or not it should be a permanent designation.The comments that follow by Chicagoists are also interesting. Here’s lots more excellent Bucket Seals.
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow: An Instant Message with Excitable Music is a play written by Rolin Jones that features an agoraphobic, obsessive-compulsive (perhaps also mildly autistic) girl genius who decides to seek out her birth mother in China by creating a robot to go on the journey for her. She’s also a secret subcontractor for the Department of Defense and relies on the help of a horny Mormon (who’s on a conversion mission…
Mehmet Erkök, industrial design lecturer at Ä°stanbul Teknik has designed interesting cell phone modifcations by removing parts of the case and inserting clear plastic elsewhere. On the one hand they look either half-finished or dismantled / broken, but the clear plastic makes them look like industrial manufacturing equipment. Very cool–I’d love to see more people take on this sort of extreme modding that looks as good as this does.
So you’re a minimalist who will only invest in a simple money clip? Or, let’s say your credit cards outweigh your current wallet and you need a better way to manage them? No worries–check out these six geek wallets that will help you organize your “plasticash” and avoid looking like a dork while doing so. read more | digg story