Renowned for his adventurous sculptural light works and installations, Bruce Munro with the kind support of UK press and BBC Wiltshire radio, urged readers and listeners to send unwanted CDs to his workshop some weeks ago. The reason? Munro visualized an inland sea made of unwanted CDs. The public response was massive and hundreds of CDs arrived from all over the UK and as far afield as California and Brazil. Over the past weekend (19-20 June) 140 friends of Murno and colleagues, including Kevin McCloud and other celebrities from the design-art world, helped to lay the installation. The grass was mowed at Long Knoll field near Kilmington to prepare the ‘canvas’, and on Saturday each CD was laid with a stone on it, to prevent wind damage. This proved to be time-consuming and so the stone laying was abandoned on Sunday. The result? A stunning inland sea made of 600.000 CDs which are dazzling like mirrors reflecting sunlight and moonlight.

[via Yatzer]

As you already noticed, The BPA VIP Blogger Week has started :) Norman Cook wrote us an exclusive mini story series about the secret history of The BPA. While you are waiting for the fresh daily episodes to show up,you can enter to our The BPA Contest and you can win a limited edition The BPA album on vinyl. Here is how you can put your paws on this rarity. Leave a comment (with a valid email of course) in this post and tell us what was the craziest place where you ever danced naked!! You answer doesn’t have to be true ;) This time we are really looking forward the craziest fake naked dancing story!! You can enter more stories if they are different enough.

The contest will end on Sunday evening (March 08. 20:00 CET)
we will pick the craziest story then and…

one lucky winner who sends us the craziest naked dancing story
will win the limited edition We’re Gonna Need A Bigger, Boat vinyl
and we have 5 We’re Gonna Need A Bigger, Boat CDs too
for five more creative fake naked dancing story creators

readers of the International APC and readers of the Hungarian APC can enter to the contest as well, if you wanna comment in English, pls do it here ;)

if you have any questions ask
otherwise go ‘n win!

So go recall your memories or use your fantasy, what was the craziest place where you ever danced naked????

iShelf is more like a design item than real CD storing solution
cos it only hosts 5(!!!) CD's
but on the other hand
this is possibly the hipest way to display your current TOP5

Night of the living MONSTER MASHUP [download page ]

Night of the Monster Mash-ups is the brand new halloween-themed CD for halloween 2008 from the people that brought you Monster Mashup, Son of Monster Mashup, Bride of Monster Mashup and Mashing Pumpkins. They will scare you to death this year as well ;)

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Iceland Music Export presents Made in Iceland CD release and YAIC Music Conference coinciding with 10th anniversary of Iceland Airwaves Festival, October 15th-18th in Reykjavik, featuring the most eclectic up-and-coming talent of the Iceland music spectrum!

Iceland delivers a plethora of the coolest musical landmarks for the biggest, bangin’ end to the year 2008! 

"It’s hard to believe anything with a beat could grow in a landscape as otherworldly and physically inhospitable as that of Iceland. Mother Nature, in all her harshest majesty, is the headline act here. She is not easily upstaged. Nevertheless, in a small rehearsal space on a snowy, windblown side street in central Reykjavik, a local band called the Sugarcubes is busy proving that rock & roll is not only alive and well here but mutating into shapes as odd and wondrous as the geologist’s paradise outside."
David Fricke, Rolling Stone, July 1988

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Is this not the ugliest CD Boom Box ever? Seriously, we have nothing against pink, magenta or loud colors, but this thing is just weird. It looks more like a cookie jar than a stereo if you ask us.

Let’s start with the obvious – this Star Wars themed AM/FM radio and CD player won’t give you the ultimate sound experience. Still, this black and shiny gizmo, shaped like Darth Vader’s helmet, will make a nice piece of collectable for any Star Wars fan. [via GeekAlerts]

This weekend, you have time to do things around the house and probably you even have time for some music recycling ;) Well to make some crafting fun with useless old CD’s and tapes. Green Living Expert Danny Seo has two eco-friendly ideas for you. Make dumbbells from your old CD’s for stylish workout and surprise your loved one with some TapeRobots storage containers what you can easily make from cassettes and cans. Go, make them!!

Have you got CD’s, DVD’s or game discs that skip, or don’t even load? If you’re tired of your favorite media not working you need CD-RE1AT from Sanwa.

It removes dust, fingerprints, and oily spots from disc surfaces, solves skipping, scrambling, and disc loading problems, and forms a protective layer on the disc to prevent future corruption without grinding it.

It’s corresponds to 8 to 12 cm disks and should cost around 50€. [via Akihabara News]