 Earpod Earrings are here!  Now you can listen to music with your favorite earbuds and stand out from everyone else!

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The Story

I was walking down the street and noticed how many people that were wearing Apple’s ubiquitous earbuds - myself included.  It was crazy! All these different people with the exact same white wires sticking out of their ears.  

People wore different clothes and accessories to suit their sense of style, but the EarPods they had were all the same.  

I stopped to get some cofee and while I was waiting for it to cool I was unable to stop thinking about all the EarPods. I wondered if there was a simple way I could make an EarPod accessory that looked fun, could express individuality, and be minimally intrusive (and be inexpensive).

Looking out the window,  I saw a fashionable woman in her mid-20’s waiting to cross the street.  She had thus boho-chic look going on and had these really awesome earrings that kept bumping into her EarPod wires. 

Yep.  That's when it clicked. Why not make earrings for EarPods 

Using laser sintered nylon I could use 3D printing to make these things in all sorts of colors and designs. Inexpensively.

Fun. Different. Simple. Cheap! 

Everything I wanted.

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So this is kind of neat. A Joy Complex design selected by WALLA will be an official product!

In Joy Complex news, I was one of the winners of a 3D music merchandise design contest that the website Pinshape was running along with the LA based band WALLA. My design (some BIC lighter sleeves that integrated Walla's logo) become official band swag and I get royalties for every sale! Not to shabby.

I'm really pleased that the guys in WALLA liked my design enough to make it part of their own collection of official music merchandise.  3D printing is really making quite the stride into the mainstream now!

Out of purely selfish desires to pay my bills, I hope Walla becomes the next big thing.

If you're interested in reading a press release announcing the contest winners, here you go.

While you're here, check out their new single "The Kids Are Alright"

ABOUT WALLA:

WALLA formed out of different times, places, and hardships. By random chance, these 5 individuals found each other through digital means and a common love for inventing new wavelengths. After forming a strong friendship and working tirelessly on different prototypes of songs, they finally decided to begin the project, now officially called, WALLA. The name is a reference to the sound and murmur resulting from a large crowd of people. The sound also reflected confusion and hopelessness during a time of tough life decisions and rough financial circumstances. But through sheer perseverance and the culmination of different influences (everything from pop, funk, samba, rock, metal, folk, disco, and neo-psychedelia) WALLA quickly made an indestructible pact to maintain strong melodies and lyrics, putting above and beyond care and effort into each decibel of sound produced (almost to the point of neuroticism), and allowing each song to breathe its own life and soul. "We loved the idea of not knowing what type of song we would come up with next."

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INSTRUMENTATION​

Jonathan Hoonch Kim - Guitar/Lead Vocals

Gabriel Nava Rodrigues - Synths/Backing Vocals

Ian Charlie - Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals

Mauricio "Moebeats" Carcamo - Bass

Alessio Balsemin - Drums

DISCOGRAPHY

2014 - Gangsters of Suburbia EP

​2013 - Nature EP

2012 - Animal of Love EP

I just saw this amazing video courtesy of NPR about Schlieren Flow Visualization. In it you can actually see a sound wave form and spread as it propagates through the air.

What an amazing technique!

If you don't have the set up to produce those wonderful images of sound traveling through the air, you might want to check out some jewelry from our Sound Wave Collection. We have the words "I Love You" in ten (and counting) different languages frozen in silver so you can wear them around your neck or whispering in your ears.

We can also do custom commissions using your voice so you can give an extra special gift to someone you love!

Isn't sound fascinating and beautiful?