^ 'Tag Your Name on Soundcloud: 'Found a Star on the Ground' – Flaming Lips' Six-Hour Charity Song'.^ 'Making a song that is going to go for 6 hours!!!!!!'.^ 'Preview of The Flaming Lips Strobo Trip in action'.^ 'Q&A: Wayne Coyne Spills His Skull'.On Monday, October 14, 2019, Google paid tribute to the optical phenomena demonstrated in the Strobo Trip Toy via the Google homepage Doodle, which credited Joseph Plateau as one of two simultaneous inventors of the phenakistiscope ( Simon Stampfer was the other). The boxes were sold for $60 to $85.Ī website was launched in September 2015 to stream 'I Found a Star on the Ground,' but it has yet to be officially released in any other format. The boxes were available later at other Oklahoma shops, and finally at a later Flaming Lips show. Portland OR 97205) on September 20, where Wayne Coyne himself sold 11 boxes to fans. The box-set was available for purchase only at Jackpot Records (203 SW 9th Ave. Fans who donated $100 to two causes selected by The Flaming Lips (the Central Oklahoma Humane Society and the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma) got their name in an indeterminate place in the lyrics to 'I Found a Star on the Ground.' The names of more than 200 donors were recited on the track by Sean Lennon. 'I Found a Star on the Ground' is a 6-hour long song recorded over a period of 3 weeks from August 23 to September 17, 2011. The first track, 'Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die' appeared with a different mix in the 2013 Flaming Lips album The Terror. Most of the discs have geometric psychedelic illustrations, but one of them has drawings of spermatozoa fertilizing ova. The toy creates a stroboscopic effect (similar to a Phenakistoscope) when components are rotating. The Strobo Trip toy combines a pulsating strobe light and 24 disks designed by David Bizzaro, Michelle Martin-Coyne, George Salisbury, Daniel Huffman and Dylan Bradaway.

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