New 2008 Infiniti QX56 suv photos

2008 Infiniti QX56

2008 Infiniti QX56

2008 Infiniti QX56

2008 Infiniti QX56

Ten awesome homemade guitars

J chot writes: HEY GUESS WHAT!!! I spent the entire day at work searching the words "made guitar" and "built guitar"!

Here are the most interesting ones I found:

1. Dude built a guitar from legshield of a vespa scooter


2. Nicest cigarbox guitar I've ever
   seen


3. Hardcore homemade (Africa)


4. Another African homemade guitar


5. Croissant-a-caster?


6. Skate-a-caster?


7. Dear Jesus, my eyes.


8. THE MOST UN-SAFE FOR WORK GUITAR KNOWN TO
   MAN

Of lesser note, but still interesting:


9. Umm....ok.....what?


10. DOES Anyone know what that
    is?

Thanks, J chot!

2009 Calendar Shoot

Its a carshoot that consists of dirty unwashed cars because the owners are too lazy and cold to do any washing. Here is a 575M and a unknown Porsche.

I fucked around and took shots of people shooting.

Here is the one and only LP560-4 in Korea.

The unknown Porsche. It was nice.

The only porsche I can actually name without looking at the details.

No one washed their cars...

Then Dinner came after the lambo guy got in a major 4 car accident with his R8. They are celebrating a 50th Day anniversary together in a car shoot meet. hahaha he drives the C63 in my earlier pictures.

The next day I did some war journalism.

This kid... in blue... his buddy threw a rock that nailed him right on the forehead just before I got this shot. His friend beside him posing isn't aware of the situation yet.

Then lunch. Amazing tuna. I looooove tuna. Especially the white parts.

Then car working time @ the shop.

Korea is far too cold to do any shooting.

25 Awesome things I've failed to post on Music Thing over the last couple of months

1. My new favourite Wikipedia page is Unusual types of gramophone records. (Thanks, Steve)


2. Bleep Labs BitBlob is the only thing to buy this Christmas. A patchable synth encased in a pyrex glass jar complete with glowing monsters. $216, limited edition of 30...


3. Another xmas essential is Benge's Twenty Systems album - a lovely booklet/CD package with twenty tracks recorded on twenty different systems, from Moog Modular to NED Synclavier. (More pics here at Hardformat)


4. New synth #1: Dave Smith Mopho, tiny yellow all-analog synth for $399 (from Analog Haven). Like the button marked 'push it', don't like the lack of knobs.


5. The Trons are a robot band from New Zealand (MySpace) (Thanks, Louis)


6. Totally Wired is an interesting-looking obsessive documentary about the Berlin synth store Schneiders Buero. Trailer. (Thanks, Luka)


7. Wonderful podcast #1: Welcome to Mars, the series about sci-fi and the cold war is now a book and CD (and Simon James, who did the music, has an album on the way)


8. MT Reader (and MPC1000 JJOS guru) Nym got ADSR tattooed on his stomach.


9. Where's the party at is a great-looking sampler module kit on a single PCB, complete with dozens of breakout points for circuit bending.


10. New synth #2: Moog are re-releasing their Taurus bass pedals, in a limited edition of 1,000. $1,695, all analog, based on the original circuitry but with midi and proper memory. People have been asking for this in forums for years, but I'm amazed they've actually done it.


11. David Dewaele from Soulwax (another MT reader) explains their extremely fun-sounding live setup to Future Music mag - a mix of Ableton and analog gear. Unfortunately, it's an audio slideshow, so rather than scanning through the article you have to listen for 8 minutes...


12. Most people in Scandinavia now hate Goodiepal, apparently.


13. Goldbaby just released a nice set of drum samples sampled through an EMU SP1200


14. Yamaha released a bunch of stupid music-themed concept phones (thanks, Matt)


15. Wonderful podcast #2: Us and Them is a genuinely mind-blowing collection of Cold War propaganda music - you can download all seven episodes from the sidebar of the Clerkenwell Kid blog


16. New synth #3: Korg Microkorg XL - very long awaited follow up to the absurdly successful Microkorg (if they'd only sold the actual synths that appear in music videos, they'd still be rich). Gone are the wooden end cheeks and light up buttons, replaced by an interesting-but-ugly look slightly reminiscent of the Micromoog.


17. Steim is now safe. The Dutch Council for Culture has agreed to help fund the Amsterdam home of strange clicky music and gestural interfaces. The blog-inspired letter writing campaign apparently helped. (Previously...)


18. The Indamixx Laptop is a $499 netbook loaded with Linux music apps


19. Such a shame this live audio to sewing machine interface is nothing more than a concept and a mockup. (Thanks, Fab)


20. In the not-awesome-but-understandable camp, the Chimera BC16 is currently off-sale as they catch up with back orders (finally). Shortly before that was announced, they put up the price of the wonderful BC16 to £280.00. Still a good price, but not the astonishing bargain it was at £116, when it was first announced. (Previously)


21. Korg Nano controllers are now also available in black. Not sure if that's an improvement or not.


22. During brain surgery, "Banjo player Eddie Adcock was kept awake to perform while surgeons poked and prodded different areas of his brain." (With picture) (thanks, Samuel)


23. In October, someone claiming to represent the New Yorker got in touch, wanting to buy paid links...


24. Great clip of the Monkees and a big Moog Modular


25. Eric Archer's 'sound cameras', hacked from old 8mm movie cameras, seem certain to become 2009's essential hipster accessory.

Pixdix is my New home.

Pixdix is an electronics store, kinda like bestbuy but more concetrated on Cameras and camera equipment, as well as Apple products.

I go there nearly every day for about an hour playing with all the lens options u can try on their Nikon D300, D700, D60, and D40.

Ive been dying to get a decent Nikkor 50mm Prime today but damn... they sold out. ㅠㅠ no prime lens for kyuvo. I will try a few places tomorrow because I am so hyped to have this lens.

Sell the car, and buy a Camera? ㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎ I just might.

and Being in love is the greatest and the worst feelings in all time.

Kintex "My Car Show" + Highway Fun + Dinner

I visited the "My Car Show" (which is actually the name... very creative...) and it was a great chance to see the modifying automobile scene in Korea. Its never as good as some of the shows held in for example Japan or the States, but I didnt come out disappointed. I also went in as an international visitor so I didnt have to pay.
I only took shots of cars that really took my eye, some cars were just... horrendous. Just think 1995 when ebay exploded with replica parts from China.

This is a Hyundai Tibouron Drag car. I didnt really car much for anything other than the gorgeous screamer pipe and exhaust. A/R .70



An orange R34 with a T88. Pictures dont do any justice on how actually huge this turbo is.

The Orange Skyline from K'z Racing. Im not a fan of the painted Nismo wheels.

The really really wide Supra. Work Meisters that could fit a whole family of midgets... Again not a fan of the custom flares, but it was really really wide.

The Samsung SM7. Or should I say the KDM Nissan Maxima? VIP styling was a big one this event.

Another SM7.

This is more like something I'd like. A 180SX with huge flares and Work Meisters. I loved the headlights as well, if you noticed, its a Nissan Cima / President / Infiniti Q45 headlights. Little micro projectors.

Models are a hit everywhere they go. I found Korean models a bit more pleasing to the eye.

One of our friend's cars whom we came to vote for. A guy from LA. Its on airbags. I dont really like the Veilside rims, and I think he should have kept his old set, which were really really wide Work VS-KF. Never was a fan of Korean Domestic cars, but in combination with Japanese parts, they arent too bad.

I dont even know what this car is called. Its Korean Domestic for sure but I think I was more captivated by the wide wheels.

One of my favourites of the show. Junction Produce Hyundai Grandeur. JP OZ Scara wheels are hot stuff.

A spoilerless R34 Vspec. It was packing 2 GT45s. I really like spoilerless cars.

Honda fit with... graphics that strangely reminded me of someone. hahaha.

After the show... This is a Korando. We were just rounding up the guys who were coming for dinner. Im not too sure about the looks, but it is packing up a very large turbo with a straightpipe that puts black pollution on any car that it flys by.

Another one of friend's. I really liked the carbon rear... bonnet. I think the car show was better in the parkinglot...?

C63 AMG was also joining us for a little highway showdown. This car is rediculously fast and loud.

The late comers. Hardtop TT GTO.

Hyundai Tiburon. Garrett T3. Its pretty quick.

575 Maranello. Notice all the swirls on his paint. I should give him a tip or two about washing cars.

We finished off dinner which was... gamjatang, then went to cruise... or more like race on the highway. We met up with a Gemballa GTR750, and gave a good run for the money in the Ferrari. We still lost though. I really enjoyed the aspect that you can have a little more automotive freedom on the roads.

Certainly a whole differnt aspect of car culture here in Korea. Turbo cars are a common place, and you can bet that every modified tiburon is packing a turbo with 300whp.

Mainly its because the labour costs are cheap cheap compared to Canada. Whatever my next car will be, it will be definatly turbo. I dont think I can ever get in a slow NA car again.

Banned: The Dettol ad encouraging mums to spray disinfectant into pianos

If you're a MT reader who has watched UK television in the last week, you've probably already been traumatised by a certain disinfectant advertisement: "The advertisement depicted two children seated at a piano. When one of them sneezed, a concerned mother reached for her can of Dettol and sprayed the keys."
The Music Industry Association (the trade body for music gear manufacturers) called in the Advertising Standards Authority: "The company explained that the idea its product might do harm simply hadn’t occurred to it and agreed not to screen the offending commercial again, pending tests to find out whether, in fact, Dettol did actually represent a hazard to piano owners."

Phew.