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breakfast audio - concrete reverb

"The Concrete Reverb combines a modded take on the IVP Tube sound overdrive with a dark and moody analogue reverb. 

It features a gain control and an active EQ for bass and treble to dial in a blooming fuzz like reverb at one end and heavy clanging ambience at the other. 

Built to be as expressive as possible, both the bypass and order effect switch are running on soft relay switches that can be held momentarily or switched traditionally. Both modes are indicated by a changing LED: Red for overdrive first and Yellow for Reverb first. Switching momentarily at high setting can create emerging reverb swells and can be used creatively when combined with the feedback/reverb expression input. 

The expression input enables a feedback loop in red mode and a reverb control in yellow mode. The feedback expression mode reacts to the EQ, reverb and gain allowing fully controllable high pitched squeals and bass blowouts. In yellow mode with the reverb slider set to 0 you can fully control the reverb setting with your expression pedal.

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Aesthetically this pedal is built with the intention of being 'tour grade' with custom designed CNC parts that are able to handle constant and expressive use. 

These weigh roughly 2lb and as such are a tiny bit more expensive to ship. Footprint wise they are: 5.72 x 4.77 x 1.92 Inches"

JAYNE MANSFIELD as Jerri Jordan

Avenue M Station // Q subway train Rita MacDonald: Hare Apparent, 2011 Glass mosaic and tile

Artist Rita MacDonald works with everyday patterns in much of her work, manipulating and enlarging the shapes to fit architectural spaces in her installations and painstakingly rendering each line in her prints. Often her patterns are based upon architectural grids, fabrics from old clothes, well-worn curtains, etc.

In her two-station project on the Q subway train in Brooklyn, Hare Apparent and Bird Laid Bare, she puts these practices to good use, creating a trompe l'oiel effect in which the tile wall is folded back like a curtain to reveal a vintage wallpaper-like pattern behind. The fabricator, Miotto Mosaics, faced a challenging technical puzzle of trimming rectangular tiles to resemble an unfurling form so that it seem as though an invisible hand has peeled back a layer of the wall.

The creature featured amidst the floral pattern is a large friendly rabbit, or hare. The friendly and furry animal is a subtle symbol of transportation in residential neighborhoods and where many trips are just a short hop away (pun intended!).

Avenue M features a rabbit design with rabbits leaping from the wall and hopping along the station stairs. Avenue J depicts birds who fan out from the pattered wall and seem to fly throughout the station. The creatures appear to have escaped from the old-fashioned wall pattern of the past to join us here in the present day station. In an inspired flight of fancy, the animals travel to the neighboring stations: a bird is seen mixing it up with the rabbits at Avenue M and at Avenue J, a rabbit hops over to visit with the birds.

When pigs fly…in #subwayart. Happy Year of the Pig! #ChineseNewYear

Roy Lichtenstein’s "Times Square Mural" (2002) at Times Sq-42 St (1,2,3,N,Q,R,W,S) station captures the spirit of the subway, its linear movement and dynamic energy. With a nod to both the past and the future, its central image is a futuristic bullet-shaped car zipping through an underground station. And not just any station: Times Square, in the heart of New York City.

The work references Lichtenstein’s earlier works and appropriations of other artists’ and designers’ work, such as the old Buck Rogers comic strips. It is a signature work that honors its creator and the place in which it is located.

Lichtenstein’s work is now printed on five US Postal Service Forever stamps, joining the ranks of some of the greatest American artists, including fellow #MTAarts artist Romare Bearden.