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Esoteric arts: Archaeologists at Pompeii in Italy have found what they believe is a female sorcerer’s box of objects. The magnificent little miniature amulets, gems, and other items were found in the remains of a wooden box at Casa del Giardino, and were most likely used for personal ornamentation or protection from evil forces and bad luck. Among the objects found were crystals, buttons made of bones, phallic amulets, and a glass bead engraved with the head of Dionysus.
noelgrassy - Civil War Big Muff π
“When I was given the Civil War BMP it had no top plate, no end plates or battery drawer. So I scooped some "mojeaux" bits off the floor, i.e. curly Maple, snakeskin vinyl, Orange-styled "helpmee" handles and fabbed an aluminum front panel for the PC mounted {"see-thru", no lie!} 1/4" jax to be supported by. It's a good thing that pedal sounds so good 'cause it's one tardle looking turd now.”
cred: stompboxes.co.uk/noelgrassy
Armando Medina fell in love with antique clocks but they were very expensive. He implored the Virgin of the Solitude, and she helped him to get enough money in time to buy them. He’s infinitely thankful for such a particular favor.
la virgen de la soledad entonces...
the Virgin of the Solitude might be the patron saint of the relations between man and objects, which might then be a form of mourning?
1st Astronauts Belka Strelka Space Dogs Rocket Shtof JUG Porcelain Gzhel (eBayから)
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Ibanez - Visual Super Product
visual vs. functional, surface vs. content, fetishism vs utilitarianism ???
cred: gramrix.com/Real Guitars
‘Pedal Parts Plus has a powdercoat color called "hooker lip red", no lie.’
cred: stompboxes.co.uk/Dr Tony Balls
Mike Medek - rebote 2.5 delay
“... It’s for my buddy’s uncle who is on the show Drunk History. I tried to incorporate the hour glasses to represent time and the led indicator is actually a small glass bottle filled with actual whiskey.”
cred: facebook.com/Mike Medek
Ore.e Refineries - Berlin Wall Distortion
“... is based on the Electra distortion circuit. The unit in the picture is centred around a piece of the Berlin Wall which was collected in 1990. The Lenin pin is connected to the transistor base and can be used to distort the sound. The rotary switch is used to guide the incoming signal towards three different capacitors. The first setting goes to Berlin Tegel Airport and emphasizes treble, setting two passes RAF Gatow airport emphasizing bass moderately and setting three passes trough Tempelhof Airport and it emphasises bass tones heavily. From the three entry points the signal travels towards Checkpoint Charlie which is the transistor c ollector. Checkpoint Charlie is also the entry point for the current originating from the 68k resistor, which represents the Berlin Telecommunications Tower, built in 1961. At Checkpoint Charlie both the electric current and the signal from the airports travel underground and continue underneath the circuit. Underneath the board there are also lakes and waterways and various other conjunctions between components. The circuit ground is represented by the Berlin Wall. All components in the circuit which go to ground meet there. ...”
cred: oree.storijapan.net
The best way that I could manage to get full size parts into a Hammond #1590A enclosure. True bypass foot switch. Switchcraft sockets. Alpha 16mm potentiometers.
The Little Fetish uses a circuit topology originally designed for tubes and adapted for the closest solid state relative: field effect transistors. Voltage is internally multiplied for best performance. Metal box with powder coated, laser engraved jacket.
More info: http://www.dazatronyx.com/little-fetish/
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of course the BOSS-JHS cooperation is a remarkable move.
a sidenote on the JHS rumble:
Adam Dolhanyk: Real World Worship - The People Vs. JHS Pedals (updated)
business as usual & internet dynamics
and remember that bad publicity is, after all, still publicity
while the initials IHS (and sometimes also JHS) are used since quite a while in cristian religious context (account of the producer),
the idea that there could be a “christian pedal” (account of the consumers), similar to all the satanic/doom/whatever implies that a trivial object like a pedal could be loaded with sort of a religious mojo.
religious implications as one tiny facette in the (not necessarily conscious) game about creating fetishes.
cred: wikimedia.org/harrieta171/GO69/, effectsdatabase,
aplication of a persona to a wah-pedal
Vox - THE CLYDE McCOY WAH
“The first one is the earliest of the “Picture” Clydes with serial # 00526.“
cred: youtube.com/Irh1966, stompboxes.co.uk/innerflight,
hedgehog
punk/metal/D-beat - Turbo Rat
“Drilled 50 x 3mm holes. The spikes are a stock item in every punks inventory. They just have a 3mm screw that goes on the inside. Took me a while to put them all on. ... I lifted the 3pdt as high as I could. I probably wouldn't do it barefoot and drunk.“
cred: facebook.com/Tony Pepers
On first sight it might seem that there can be found two opposed aproaches to the shape of objects, which are:
First, the preference of sober, straight, functional, economic and efficient shapes; ergonomic shapings could be barely tolerated. Pictures and coloures on the surfaces already could be received as kitsch and as a threat to the purity of the object. In complete disregard of the exterior appearance of the object, the pretended focus is totally on function, material quality, perfect construction, technical achievment etc.
Second, there are things that might occur distractful, oppulent, fancy, weird, baroque, exaggerated, distracting, in disguise etc.; shapings which obviously neglect the original function of the object and tend to accumulate fetishised qualities. Non-functionality is the least feature of such one.
Meanwhile, some human conditions have to be accepted: The first spatial encounter between subject (man) and object is mostly visual and haptic. So the visual or haptic impact an object can have is a key-position that affects the further relationship between e.g. user and tool.
Any interaction between human and world is never just purely economic, but always also symbolic. This so until we have an exhaustive treatise on the economy of symbolic actions...*
One possible conclusion: Straight functional economic shapings are NOT completely ‘empty’ or void of redundant meanigs, like it might seem on first sight. They are technoid fetishes, shapings of a cult that are mainly invisible for it’s followers.
* The flux between economic and symbolic values remains quite a mystery. It legitimates the existence of the art market as a test area.
JAM pedals at NAMM 2016
cred: facebook.com/Gearphoria
Snake Pedals - Culebra Fuzz
“The knobs are Volume, Gain and Texture. The Light within the chest will flicker Red when you strum the guitar and the eyes will light up. “
reverb.com/circuitstocurecancer
