A company called These Are Things searched for and couldn’t find a simple, modern world map, so they did what any ambitious creative people would do and made their own. The result is this four color, hand-screenprinted, minimal map that measures 20″ x 30,” and costs $60.00. Buy some pins and start mapping your travels…[Courtesy [...]

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Artist Keith Haring’s posthumous success borders on astounding. His designs have been used for a variety of products: from chairs to dominoes to, now, water bottles thanks to world-renowned Swiss company, SIGG. The bottles, which are “highly durable and virtually unbreakable,” come printed in a variety of Haring’s well-known images. Some are available through SIGG [...]

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Toronto-based artist, Ibrhaeem Youssef, is giving the good ol’ minimalist treatment to posters from each and every flick Quentin Tarantino has ever directed. While he’s still missing one for True Romance, Tarantino’s first and arguably best, Youssef has completed posters for Inglorious Basterds (shown), Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown (all included below) and more. [...]

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Stop-motion filmmaker, Patrick Boivin, is a master of taking toys, making them move, and turning the end product into a massive viral hit. First he pitted Iron Man and Bruce Lee against one another, and then it was the odd yet compelling match-up between Michael Jackson and Mr. Bean. Now, after amassing millions of hits [...]

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On MTV from 1986-1987–when the network still played music and hadn’t yet been deluged by drunken roommates, celebrity abodes, and culturally-entrancing guidos–Andy Warhol hosted a five-episode-long television program called, ‘Fifteen Minutes.’ Interviewees included Pee-Wee Herman, John Waters, Robin Leach, Kevin Dillon, Courtney Love, William Burroughs, and a number of key members of both the fashion [...]

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Wonder what your neighbors have on their Netflix queue? I wasn’t, but thanks to this interactive Google map, anyone can browse the top 50 rentals from 2009 according to zip codes in a dozen cities around the country. For instance, folks in New York rented Milk, Twilight and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button more [...]

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I’ve been wondering when someone was going to visualize–be it on screen, television or stage–President Obama’s 2008 campaign. In fact, if I were a betting man, which I am, I would suggest that he will end up being the subject of more books, films, plays and television programs than any president in history. After only [...]

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There is conflicting information about the actual release time for Kaws‘ 4′ Dissected Companion in Black. Arrested Motion is reporting it’s tomorrow (01/09) at noon, while others are saying it’s today, in about 15 minutes. Either way, everyone is suggesting that the companion, which is the last in the series, will run anywhere from $4,000 [...]

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The Book of Job is re-imagined with hipsters in Williamsburg playing each role in the story.
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I loved me some Avatar. So much so that I’ll probably see it in theaters again at least once. I also read movie blogs on a daily basis, so I’m aware of the plot comparisons Cameron’s film is getting toward both Dances With Wolves and Pocahontas. Well, a funny human being named Matt Bateman has [...]

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