I still have a ton of things to circuit bend, so it looks like I am taking the soldering iron with me to NYC. I hoped to have it all done and tested by this point, but it seems like little things always get in the way.

Well, at least I finished the track. I whipped it out last night and did some light mastering this morning. I would still say ( Read more... )

I am walking in Tragedy on the Catwalk . . . . . .and I am probably the only person who has to solder their outfit for round 3. Which leads me to a somewhat funny story.

It occurred to me that maybe I could make my shirt out of a large circuit board from salvaged an old CD player. My first idea was to boil the board in order to soften the board ( Read more... )

(alternate title: put the flat-chested girl into the finals ( Read more... )

Here is the tally of what Neitzsche’s claimed ( Read more... )

My column on Alterati is up entitled Get Bent.

This column will mainly deal with topics such as circuit bending and DIY instuments.

First article here.

I said to Ron something to the effect of, “It is amazing that you never have any of the lighting umbrellas or photo equipment in the pictures on accident . . . ”

So he took this one just for me:


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You don’t need a thing from me
But I-
I need something big from you
‘cuz you know I’ve got a lot of really big dreams . . .

There is an old superstition that says how you spend New Years Eve is what is in store for you for the rest of the year. But in the grand scheme of time, where you slap the mile marker which separates one year from the next is pretty arbitrary considering that there are at least half a dozen forms of calendars each dictating the new year begins on ( Read more... )

So I bought a ton of Halloween candy because I live in a residential neighborhood with kids who will trick-or-treat and I plan to leave it out on my porch in a bowl (yeah, free candy at my place Tuesday. Take what you want, just leave me the bowl) because the doorbell is broken and I will probably be working or unpacking anyway. But I was ( Read more... )

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