I’ve seen this band, live, six times. Their music is amazing, and can’t recommend it highly enough. I look forward to seeing them in concert again, soon.
Music: the first two tracks from the Murder By Death album Like the Excorcist, But More Breakdancing. Please visit their website, http://www.murderbydeath.com, to buy this band’s music and merchandise. While you’re there, I recommend checking their concert calendar, to see if they may be playing near you soon. Murder By Death concerts, which I’ve seen six times now, are not to be missed!
Visuals: rotating polyhedra, all with icosidodecahedral symmetry, generated using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you can try for yourself at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php. The polyhedra shown are, in order of appearance:
The icosahedron
The compound of the icosahedron and its dual, the dodecahedron
The dodecahedron, with all faces the same color
The small stellated dodecahedron, or first stellation of the dodecahedron, in a single color
The small stellated dodecahedron, with only parallel faces having the same color (six-color arrangement)
The great dodecahedron, or second stellation of the dodecahedron, six-color arrangement
The great stellated dodecahedron, or third stellation of the dodecahedron, six-color arrangement
Stellating the dodecahedron a fourth time, to return it to its original form, but in the six-color arrangement this time
The icosidodecahedron, with triangular faces invisible, and pentagonal faces shown using the six-color arrangement
The icosidodecahedron, all faces visible now, and colored by face type
The fourth stellation of the icosidodecahedron (its first stellation is the dodecahedron, the second is the icosahedron, and the third is the compound of the first two, all of which have already been seen)
The fifth stellation of the icosidodecahedron
The convex hull of the fifth stellation of the icosidodecahedron, which is a slightly-truncated icosahedron
The truncated icosahedron which is a true Archimedean Solid, since all its faces are regular
The truncated icosahedron’s second stellation (the first is the already-seen icosahedron)
Recently, someone who follows my blog asked for my permission to use one of the images here (a tessellation featuring regular heptagons, etc.) as the artwork to accompany a piece of music he created. I granted permission without hesitation, and am now posting a link to his song, Heptagon Heaven’s “Destroy the System.”
Of course he is. Just look at these pictures. They clearly depict the same person.
The only logical conclusion is that Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the Flaming Lips, has developed a sleep disorder wherein he, while completely asleep, lives a double life, unknown to himself, where he is the King of Burger King.
If you’re also a Wikipedean, and want some of these userboxen for yourself, feel free to copy them from my userpage. To help you find it: my username on Wikipedea is RobertAustin at the time of this posting, but should change to RobertLovesPi in just a few days.
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