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Monday, February 12, 2007

mysterious glowing object #5



The Groove Tube was a screen of translucent square boxes that was placed in front of your tv, resulting in ever shifting, unpredictable pixelations of color. In many ways like the dance floors of 70's discos, but much more subtle and hypnotic. They appear to no longer be in production but little caches of stock may still survive; I found one recently from a seller in Seattle who had stopped carrying them, but who had remembered they had 2 or 3 sitting around somewhere in storage. Similar effects can be achieved from toilet paper tubes and wax paper, but after all is said and done, they still look like just tubes and wax paper.

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