Sweet! This project is totally doable with household materials (printer, paper, thicker paper, white glue, scissors, and a razor edge). Just print out these paper parts, fold, cut, glue, and after 3 hours (including drying time) you will have a playable train whistle. I used regular printer paper for the bellows and [...]

There is just something about pipe organs, especially the circus-sounding type, that really tickles me.

Above: Giant “heavenly” drum (src)

Above: Costumes covered in silver bells (src)

Above: “Drum Cart” during closing ceremony August 24, 2008. (src)

Above: Flower drums with icons (notice the flowers on the drums) at the Temple of Heaven Park. (src)

Above: Opening ceremony drummers at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. (src)

Above: Astounding tower covered in replicas of ancient Chinese bells [...]

The Telemegaphone Dale loudspeaker will continue to “speak” incoming phone calls until September 20th, 2008. For those of you who don’t know, Telemegaphone Dale is a 23-foot-tall wind-powered loudspeaker sculpture that picks up incoming calls and projects them into the mountains of Norway and the nearby village of Dale. Read more about this [...]

Linsey Pollak, very entertaining

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