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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Ever since it premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, folks, including the Academy (who nominated it for Best Short Film), have been praising the brilliance of Logorama, a film by French duo, François Alaux and Herve de Crecy. The 15-minute, at times NSFW short imagines a world (Los Angeles) dominated by corporations–their logos and [...]

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Our friend Ron English [interviewed] was in McAllen, Texas, for something this past weekend and decided, ‘hey, you know what, I think I’m going to paint some cows.’ So he found a guy named David Freeman who allowed Ron to “bomb” four of his “bovines.” This world-map one is fantastic. Check out two more below, [...]

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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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It’s difficult to decide which is more disturbing: a.) Lady Gaga has become so inexplicably famous–due to both a fashion sense born from doing drugs the rest of us don’t even know exist and, ahem, her damn catchy music–that she has found her way onto this series of dollar bills by artist Craig Gleason (site [...]

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This liquid lamp ($280.00), and its cousin, the liquid bookmark, are designed by Japanese firm, Kyouei Design. It’s cool because, you know, it looks like someone got bludgeoned in the den (also available in white just in case blood isn’t your thing). The material used for the appearance of liquid is actually an iron plate. [...]

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Not positive as to why these stainless steel straws are so appealing, but they are. It’s the whole idea of “being the same, but different,” I think. Available as a set of six ($18.00) from the Brook Farm General Store. [Courtesy of Stilsucht]
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Pegged as a product that’s “complex enough to play with, yet simple enough to wear,” the Gear Ring ($165.00) is the first venture from NYC-based company, Kinekt Design. It’s made from high quality stainless steel and features six micro-precision gears that turn in unison when the outer rims are spun. I actually had the opportunity [...]

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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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