Quindar: Twin-Pole Sunshade

Quindar is a newly formed musical project between Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen and art historian James Merle Thomas (currently a postdoc scholar at USC). Their music, which remixes NASA’s audio and video archive, is a creative extension of Thomas’ research, which explores the connections between postwar American avant-garde art and NASA. The title song from their two-track EP “Twin-Pole Sunshade” walks listeners through NASA’s 1973 Skylab …

Yo La Tengo: Automatic Doom

Three decades old and still going strong, Yo La Tengo celebrates this milestone with a “sequel” album to their 1990 Fakebook, which featured covers, re-workings of their own songs and brand new songs. Stuff Like That There will feature covers of The Cure, Sun Ra, Hank Williams and more—as well as two original Yo La Tengo songs. Stuff Like That There is set for release …

QuaDror Furniture by Dror + Horm.it

The unique structural support system finally becomes a reality in the form of elegant shelving and side tables

CH first covered Dror Benshetrit’s QuaDror structural support system—a weight-efficient approach to space truss geometry that can essentially build collapsible structures from flat-packed pieces—when it existed only in sketches, renderings and 3D-printed models. Highly adaptable, and usable in a variety of different materials (such as bamboo or steel), QuaDror’s potential implementations are as vast as they are important—from emergency or urban housing to bridge support. …