Best known for their synchronous  treadmill video, Chicago band OK Go have outdone themselves with this one-shot clip for their latest track, “This Too Shall Pass.” The guys sketched out the idea and then hired a collective of geeky art engineers known as Synn Labs, who spent the better part of four months building a [...]

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Using a post-production technique called tilt-shift, director Sam O’Hare’s just-completed short film, The Sandpit, takes us on a memorizing journey though a day in the life of a miniaturized New York City. Maybe it’s because the stills used–of which there were 35,000–were taken during the hottest week of summer 2009, but watching this makes us [...]

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Seemingly banking on design over functionality, Marcos Ignacio Madia, who doesn’t seem to have a website, has created a rough concept for these stackable, tree-inspired “Growin’ Up” speakers. Concepts are tough to categorize in terms of success ratio, as they can easily fall apart during the manufacturing process, something we in the product art business [...]

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Last week we featured Julien Jaborska’s wildly popular bike tire belts, and now we’ve got another imaginative piece of hold-up-your-pants wear to share with you good people. Coming from a trio of fellow Brooklynites who work under the moniker ‘You and Me The Royal We,’ is this belt that’s made from wood. Well, technically the [...]

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Add a spot of decorative yet functional product art to your kitchen or dining room with these Totem Cups (set of four, $84.00) from Toronto-based designer, Rob Southcott, made for fellow Torontonians, producteurs imm Living. The stackable set is made from ceramic and stands 8.5″ tall.
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Having a gold plated pipe to smoke from would make any man dapper; either that or pretentious, depending on how you look at it. Good thing for the cynics out there, since this golden pipe is meant to hold candles instead of tobacco. The Pipe Candlestick ($84.00) from Patch NYC is first cast in metal [...]

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All of us from the Jailbreak Collective are currently holed up at booth No. 4822 at the NYC Toy Fair, which, as luck would have it, puts us right next to the nice folks from Kotobukiya, who just happen to have damned near the coolest product of the entire show. Yes, these brilliant Lightsaber Chopsticks (aka [...]

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Wallets suck. Plain and simple. The feeling it gives the bum during long drives and while flying on airplanes is something I detest, so my front right pocket is generally its designated spot. But then if there’s too much cash, hypothetically because of the whole, you know, being poor thing, then it’s also often uncomfortable. [...]

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Self proclaimed bike-riding fanatic, Julien Jaborska, has channeled his passion and flipped it into wearable art via the use of recycled bike parts. The belt shown above was made from an old knobby mountain bike tread ($30.00), and is one of the most unique fashion accessories you’ll find today. While writing this post, it was [...]

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Milan, Italy-based art director/product designer, Matteo Cibic, has just announced the pre-release of his dog-with-neck-cone-sans-head-shaped ceramic speaker called, nicely, Hi-Fido. Only 50 (1o here in the U.S.) will be produced upon its actual release this April, so head over to his site and claim one if it suits your fancy. [Via]
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