The DIY Gramophone Made Out Of Paper.
Design student, Jón Hólmgeirsson, from the Iceland Academy of the Arts has designed a fold-it-yourself gramaphone.
Called the ‘Jónófón’, the paper gramophone consists of a plywood base, a paper cup, and a thick paper horn to amplify sound.
Yet another item to add to my list of nifty things I’d like to have. Too bad he hasn’t announced his release date yet.
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“Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a major English Romantic poets and regarded as the finest lyric poets in the English Language
(Source: quotegarden.com)
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Architecture from Music: Anistropia by Orproject
“Anisotropia,” is a building proposal for the Busan Opera House in South Korea by architectural firm Orproject. The structure is based off of a piano piece composed by the firm’s director.
While the proposal looks gorgeous, there are questions about why the firm didn’t choose a song related to Busan, South Korea? What was the process for converting music into architecture?
Click here to read more.
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Origami Pop-Up Piano Greeting Card.
Graphic designer and interior architect, Scott Withers, created this pop-up piano card just for fun. I would love to give this to each of our piano students. Too bad he’s not selling them.
Check out some of his other amazing origami pop-up cards.
The Ruin and Decay of Abandoned Pianos.
I’m sure many will agree that seeing these rotten and destroyed pianos is heartbreaking. At the same time, there is a strange haunting appeal that fascinates me.
See more abandoned pianos on Deviantart, Flickr, and forums.
