Jay Silver’s TED talk: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!

Jay Silver, exuberant inventor, entertains the TED Salon audience with ketchup, pizza, bananas and other seemingly absurd but infinitely fun computer interfaces and game controllers.

(via TED)

The Landfill Harmonic Project

Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash.

More information here.

Bus stop bookshelves

A DIY Urbanist project in Puerto Alegre, Brazil is dedicated to helping local communities repurpose long-abandoned advertising spaces in bus shelters as short-lived, or permanent neighbourhood libraries.

The project collaborators have posted How to Make a Public Bookcase guide (Portuguese language only) online.

(via TransvençãoLAB)

Buster Keaton: The Scarecrow (1920)

I love this table scene from The Scarecrow — a comedy set piece played out by Keaton and Roberts in a one-room house filled with makeshift and whimsical space saving apparatus.