Porciphone by Max Vandervorst
Max Vandervorst created the Porciphone, a musical instrument that utilizes a set of tuned PVC tubes into which Vandervorst squeezes ubber squeaky pigs to grunt into them.
Video
The Sow’s Purse Occasional Video Series will try to root up, save and present overlooked and ambiguously promoted videos that concern pigs. Porkopolis will fetch the old and new, fat and lean and feature them here for another look.
Roochie Toochie & The Ragtime Shepherd Kings
Roochie Toochie & The Ragtime Shepherd Kings – performing the weirdest songs from the early days of tin pan alley and recording them on honest-to-goodness wax cylinders.
The pig pen and Bob Dylan
When you see Bob Dylan and a man in a coon-skin cap. And they’re both over by the pig pen. And they want all your money. Then you’ve got the subterranean homesick blues…
Styfall – dropped GoPro camera snuffled by pig
Folks intent on other matters give an elegant proof of the law of gravity, and that pigs are curious, hungry creatures. Sorry, pigs, GoPro cameras are not edible.
Christien Meindertsma and Pig 05049
In this TED Talk, Dutch artist Christien Meindertsma, author of “Pig 05049” looks at the astonishing afterlife of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 185 non-pork products, from bullets to artificial hearts.