Chris Hart’s series of books “Doodletopia” covers a variety of entertaining art forms – manga, fairies and cartoons. We took Doodletopia: Cartoons for a whirl and had a good time. The book encourages you to draw right on the page…
We’ve really never met a piece of bent plywood furniture we didn’t like, from Eames classics to Italian modern. And that sentiment holds true for Brian Kane’s new collection for Herman Miller, Swoop, as well – especially when it comes…
We weren’t sure what to expect from a book with a title like “A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches,” but given the evidence: – The author Tyler Kord is owner/chef at the No. 7 Sub shobs in NYC – William…
Literally fire, in this instance 🔥 No, that’s not our mixtape in the pool – it’s a fire emoji pool float (also available in eggplant, poop, 100, and sunglasses face). At 5 to 7 feet long (that’s a really big…
We love our Bialetti moka pot when we need strong java, but its polished chrome sensibilities won’t necessarily work with all kitchen designs. (It’s a sharp contrast to a wood-and-glass Chemex, for sure). Now, along comes the Collar collection from…
Sci-fi. Dystopia. AI. Copyright issues. This film has it all. Terence Broad, a London-based researcher, recently completed a dissertation entitled “Autoencoding Video Frames,” which we’ll admit doesn’t sound all that exciting, not initially. Add deep learning and Blade Runner to…
In Southern Spirits, Four Hundred Years Of Drinking In the American South, With Recipes, author Robert F. Moss acknowledges the stereotypes that most of us have of “Southern drinking culture” – mint juleps, plantation punch, bourbon, moonshine and lazy afternoons…
We’ve never had the patience for Rubik’s cubes. Now, Martin Španěl has used augmented reality (AR) to create a solution for unscrambling them. First, it scans the current permutation of the faces of the cube, so it knows what it…
…aka the “Queen Of Shitty Robots,” which we consider an enviable title. On her YouTube channel, Simone’s Robots, she’s taken the concept of useless machines to a whole new level: there are shitty robots to feed her breakfast, shitty robots…
Two cat posts in a row. Sorry. But if you’ve been to the Ghibli in Tokyo, you know the Catbus (from My Neighbor Totoro) was previously sized for kids only, and that’s no fun. The Ghibli’s closed for renovation for…
