Public interactive installation by @royrobotiks plays a variety of musical instruments when you turn a crank:
The Music Construction Machine is a large, public, generative music box,
which people can operate via a big hand crank. Rotating the crank moves
various mechanisms inside the giant box, producing ever-changing
melodies and rhythmic patterns, played with an electric guitar, a
keyboard and a drum set. As the machine is contained in a transparent
glass pavillon, people can observe and contemplate on its inner workings
while cranking.
Every photo of fireworks looks pretty
much the same—a burst of color against a dark sky. There’s nothing at all
original about it. That’s what Damion Berger thought, too.
Berger figured a photograph
he took of the fireworks display would be a throwaway pic, but when he saw the negatives,
inspiration struck. “Black and white generally casts a nostalgic tone, but in
the negative it’s electric, vibrant, modern and unfamiliar,” he says.
Suddenly, a tired genre was new again.
Berger has photographed dozens of fireworks shows from San Francisco to Paris
to Dubai for his ongoing series Black Powder.
