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Dec 12

Musical Drink-dispensing Machine Serves Southern Comfort

David Cranmer is a mechanical sculpture artist. You might remember him from such projects as theremin in a stuffed badger. He is always busy creating new projects. This is his latest.

You may or may not know that Southern Comfort originated in New Orleans. And so a marketing company working on behalf of the brand hired David to create some sculptures to promote The beverage. The result is two machines built around instruments that are reminiscent of New Orleans’s jazz history. Just insert a bottle and press a trumpet key.

What happens next is magical. Alcohol is delivered. That’s real magic, unlike that fake Harry Potter stuff. Give me a drink any day over an invisibility cloak. Music and alcohol. What could be better?

[via Yababoon via Neatorama]

May 10

Steamroller Music Box Plays Star Spangled Banner, Though It’s a Little Flat

Posted in: Today's Chili

Music boxes are one of the oldest forms of storing and playing back music. Just don’t expect anything fancy. Now the simple music box concept has been taken to the next level. We’re talking huge. If this Steamroller music box ever gets loose, it will flatten you to the tune of The Star Spangled Banner.

Dave Cole completed this sculpture last year, He took an 11-ton steamroller, stripped it apart and turned it into a functional music box. It proudly plays the national anthem of the United States – like a monster delicately playing an instrument.