Posts Tagged ‘drum’
TECHNOLOGY: “DJ” Dr. Kate Stone Gives A TED Talk On Her New Turntables & Fader Made Of Paper (Video)
January 16, 2014
The work of my team and myself is the realization of my childhood fascinations. We put electronics into paper, and paper is all around us.
– Dr. Kate Stone
Physicist and former sheep herder (what?) Kate Stone has spent the past decade working to combine regular paper with conductive inks and tiny circuit boards to offer a unique, magical experience. To date, applications include a newspaper embedded with audio and video, posters that display energy usage in real time, and the extremely nifty paper drumkit and set of DJ decks she demonstrates onstage. See her TED talk video above demoing all that. Now, she is going to make you wait for it. But trust, once she starts playing the instruments she has made possible… you’ll realize the wait was worth it!
Paper Bass. Wow… and we thought ‘Paper Tablet Computers’ were something (well, they ARE)!
TECHNOLOGY: NEW PAPER TABLETS ARE FOLDABLE COMPUTER DOCUMENTS
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Tags: DJ deck, drum, drumkit, Kate Stone, Kate Stone: DJ decks made of... paper, Paper, Paper Bass | 
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Comedy: Big Booty Bongos (Video) [NSFW]
September 24, 2013
Jorge Perez Gonzalez is my new hero! He is literally beating that azz like a drum! Knowing that musicians get to some level of status and get azz as a result, here’s a tongue in cheek video of a percussionist who “started from the bottom”… now it’s here. Watching this a couple more times, you know for research, I chuckled less and started asking questions: Is visualizing something like this where drummers came up with ‘hitting the skins’ when they play? Did that leak into the hood as vernacular? How in the hell did he ask these honeyz to be his ‘instruments’? What do they look like in the face? Was the post-performance lotion rubdown (for real, watch to the end) part of the ‘payment’?
Yeah, you MUST watch… just NOT at work (NSFW). Too much to explain if the boss walks by.
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