Strobo Trip
Strobo Trip - Light & Audio Phase Illusions Toy is a toy box containing a stroboscope light and a memory stick with three tracks of music composed by the band The Flaming Lips.
After the announcement in early May, it was released on September 20, 2011, at 5 pm, and is known for the 6-hour long track "I Found a Star on the Ground." The Strobo Trip is exactly 6 hours, 10 minutes, and 35 seconds long.
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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. The toy creates a stroboscopic effect when components are rotating.Most of the discs have geometric psychedelic illustrations, but one of them has drawings of spermatozoa fertilizing ova.
The first track, "Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die" appeared with a different mix in the 2013 Flaming Lips album The Terror.
"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. Fans who donated $100 to two causes selected by The Flaming Lips 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.
The box-set was available for purchase only at Jackpot Records on September 20, where Wayne Coyne himself sold 11 boxes to fans. The boxes were available later at other Oklahoma shops, and finally at a later Flaming Lips show. The boxes were sold for $60 to $85.
A 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.
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 .