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Mixel, Social Art App for the iPad
Mixel is a free iPad app combines art and creativity with social media. To use the app, you create your art collage (the “mixel”)…
Beardlands, The Many Paths From Fully Bearded To Clean Shaven
Beardlands, a wonderful chart created by Kerry Thomas showing the many paths a man can take from fully bearded to clean shaven. Kerry has also…
The Relaxed Wife, 1957 Industrial Film Promoting Atarax Tranquilizer
This awesomely surreal vintage short is comprised of snippets of a longer 1957 pharmaceutical film titled The Relaxed Wife which promoted a tranquilizer under the…
Brooklyn Brewery Beer Soap
Beer Soap from Brooklyn Brewery is a line of beer-infused soaps sold in a 3-bar ‘flight’ which is “made using a different Brooklyn Brewery style:…
Paperclip Bicycle Rack
A wonderful Paperclip Bike Rack located at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. via Colossal photo by Ardent Eye
Bonex SAT 119 Throwable Fire Extinguisher
The SAT 119 is a throwable bottle of fire extinguishing chemicals that bursts upon impact, dousing the flames (see a video demonstration). The SAT 119…
Skateboarding In The New York City Subway
Slap Skateboard Magazine made a great video of people skating in New York City subway trains and subway stations. NYC Transit Rules of Conduct:…
LEGO Terracotta Street Army Created at The Sarasota Chalk Festival
Planet Streetpainting, a Dutch chalk art collective made up of street artists, created this amazing 3D street painting of a LEGO Terracotta Army for the…
Escape From The Digital World
Escape From The Digital World on Incidental Comics
Don’t Go Back to School, A Handbook for Independent Learning
Kio Stark, an author who teaches at NYU’s graduate program ITP, has launched a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to get her handbook on independent learning,…