These past few years, when it gets to be around the holidays (no matter how inconsequential) and my birthday, I admit I feel kind of nostalgic for all the cheesy/lame/insert-your-synonym-here Blue Mountain or Shockwave e-cards that used to fill up…
Continue Reading →As a child, my brother and I spent many hours transforming our basement into a small mid-western Lego city complete with a law enforcement squad capable of patrolling the high seas. Unfortunately, we never were able to see the artistic…
Continue Reading →Do you believe we're not alone in this universe? Have you ever had the sensation you're being watched by something other-worldly or the sneaking suspicion you've been the victim of an anal probe? Do you ever feel like you're in…
Continue Reading →Sweet Mother Russia has blessed the world so much in the way of culture and the arts. Mikhail Baryshnikov and Yakov Smirnoff are just some of the national treasures the former Soviet Union has had the decency to share with…
Continue Reading →The designers at Raumgestalt have created an unlikely pair. While their streamlined console table isn't a new idea, it is well a designed and clean-looking piece. The unique point, however, is the pairing with a blackboard; we all need some…
Continue Reading →It's been a year since Star Wars Series 1 was completed with the addition of an evolved R2D2, and we've just about ran out of the Force during our long wait for the rest of those extra-nerdy flash drives. Good…
Continue Reading →I have some first pressings of David Bowie albums on vinyl, graciously bequeathed to me from my uncle, but my annoying OCD and penchant for worrying have kept me from playing them, because I'm afraid of the scratches that might…
Continue Reading →It's a sad series of events that lead to the following problem: Someone sees charm in an old house; sees the need to move in; sees the need for energy; notices a lack of electrical outlets; sees electrical cords all…
Continue Reading →The methods of printing date back centuries, and if it weren't for this extensive history, we might be printing today's hot graphics onto tees using rudimentary rubbings of impressions from wood blocks instead of the modern silkscreening from which we've…
Continue Reading →Retro camera overlords Lomo have re-released the cult 1960s Diana camera from Hong Kong, keeping all the glorious hallmark characteristics that, to this day, get amateur and pro photographers alike clamoring for the nostalgic- and romantically-fuzzy photos it produces. Lomo's…
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