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contact microphones, effects box, and headphones. (with Brett Milspaw)
As mentioned yesterday in the D+R $2 Gift Guide, we are selling Mexican jumping beans at Coco's Variety and they have proved to be quite popular. We have a counter top box with a hundred little boxes of beans which creates a soothing, slightly creepy background soundtrack for the store. When kids ask me what they are, I tell em, "Machines without batteries."
Our man Greg sent us a link to Peter Coffin's sculpture that maximizes the eerie quality of beans that dance on their own.
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