theme parks
Music
How Mickey Mouse And Mr. Q Manufactured Emotion
9:00AM Rosa Golijan | Former Disney audio-experience engineer, Mr. Q, reveals how he assisted in developing a complex algorithm to arrange over 15,000 speakers around the Disney World theme park. All to achieve the ideal ambient music for “manufacturing emotion”. More »
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Massive 364-Foot Taekwon V Statue Will Crush Puny Humans
9:45PM Danny Allen | Holy crap! So Japan builds giant Gundam and Testsujin statues (18 and 18.3 metres, respectively), now South Korea is building this freakin’ huge Taekwon V (Voltar the Invincible) replica that will be more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. More »
Entertainment
Micropolix Theme Park Gives Kids a Taste of the Real World through Kiddie Capitalism
2:45PM Gizmodo US Edition | Move over, Disneyland—life isn’t always magical. CNN investigates Micropolix, a new theme park in Madrid, Spain, that teaches kids about the economy and the importance of money by making them work for their fun—literally. More »
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