August 2008
914 posts
Krink x Incase 3G iPhone Case →
Recently executing an amazing job on the Incase computer sleeve, Krink is at it again with a 3G iPhone case featuring the very popular paint drip effect. Although this is a 1-of-1 according…
Kobe Bryant Weaves a Nike Hyperdunk →
Always managing to create witty commercials, Nike presents its latest for the Hyperdunk campaign. Although we all know he can cut and weave through the competition like no one else,…
T.I.M.E. by Cassette Playa →
Following the Cassette Playa coverage some time ago at the Pitti Uomo in Florence, we now present Carri Mundane’s latest endeavor consisting of a Youtube influenced video performance by the…
Vogue Hommes Japan Preview →
Making it debut sometime in the near future, we get a sneak peek at Vogue Hommes Japan, with a slew of big names involved in the pictorial process including the likes of Hedi Slimane,…
Surface to Air Paris 2008 Fall - August Release →
Know for their awesome sense of contemporary design, Parisian collective Surface to Air release their fall 2008 drop for August. Although the collection is very well rounded with a mix of…
Crooks & Castles 2008 Fall - August Release →
For their August 2008 drop, Crooks & Castles keep the designs more subtle than usual with a little bit each style including a Hoody, Crews and some classic imagery tees featuring the…
Beauty & Youth United Arrows Photo Tees →
Mike Martin from Mash SF shows us a few new photo tees from Japanese boutique and brand, Beauty & Youth United Arrows. There are 3 tees featuring photographs from his own portfolio…
"Roger! I said ocsillate -- not osculate!" →
Geeky gag cartoon from 1961. (Note the “oscillyscope” on the workbench.) Oscilloscope Humor
Photos of disassembled household appliances →
Flickr user Brittnybadger has a drop-dead gorgeous set of disassembled household appliances, saying, “this was my senior thesis project at the hartford art school this past year…i took apart…
I Wonder If He'd Like To Guest On Idolator... →
Ryan Adams has posted 18 updates to his blog in the past hour! Eighteen! That’s, like, a whole day of posts around these parts! OK, so one of them is just a shot of him reading an X-Men,…
Photoshop tutorial: drawing a glass of beer →
Eren G??ksel has an excellent tutorial showing you how to draw a glass of beer using Photoshop.
In this tutorial, we’re going to draw a beer glass with some beer in it. We’ll create the…
LSD as therapeutic tool →
Andrew Feldm??r (the Canadian psychotherapist who was denied entrance to the United State last year when a US border guard Googled his name and found a research paper in which Feldm??r described two…
Giant Yeti (real, not a hoax!) →
Screw the frozen faux Bigfoot! (Hoaxer’s “apology” here at Cryptomundo.) Our pals at Gama-Go and fine artisans Ningyoushi are creating a no-holds-barred Big Yeti designer toy. Over at Vinyl…
Simple garden lights made with LEDs and mason jars →
The Evil Mad Scientists made garden party lights out of LEDs, lithium coin cell batteries, and mason jars. The result is very nice, especially when you consider how easy they are…
Microbattery built by viruses →
MIT researchers made progress using viruses to assemble microbatteries that are half the size of a human cell. Paula Hammond, Angela Belcher, and Yet-Ming Chiang and colleagues have already used the…
Ice cream is an igneous rock →
Geologist Maria Brumm makes a compelling case for considering ice-cream to be a sort of igneous rock:
Ice cream is an igneous rock. You begin with a liquid slurry containing a hodgepodge of…
CBC's Danny Michel releases tracks from new album... →
Chris sez, “Canadian indie artist, and co-host of the CBC radio show Under The Covers, Danny Michel has made the individual tracks from his most recent album available on the web. The raw tracks…
Australian Broadcasting Corporation launches... →
Gary sez, “Pool is a Creative Commons licensed social media project being developed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It’s a place to share your creative work with the Pool community…
Newlyweds tasered and arrested twice in 48 hours →
These newlyweds know how to party. They were tasered and arrested at their raucous wedding reception, and two days later they were tasered and arrested again. (Photo by Kacper Skowron/For…
Underwater photos of sailfish attacking a school... →
Marilyn sez, “Pual Nicklen’s amazing underwater photos of sailfish are a stunning series of seriously bizarre-looking sailfish attacking a school of sardines as big as an elephant.” In the…
Beijing update: New detentions, 6 US protesters... →
A quick update on previous BB posts (one, two, three) about American tech-artists and activists detained for pro-Tibet protests in Beijing. A Students for a Free Tibet spokesperson tells Boing…
How con-men make their faces look trustworthy →
Drake Bennett of the Boston Globe wrote an article on the various ways con men gain their marks’ trust, including body language, verbal language, and facial expressions.
When deciding who…
Truck as flower bed →
MAKE: founder Dale Dougherty went to the California State Fair where he snapped the photo above. Dale writes:
Here is one of my favorite sights, a “green” truck in the Farm area. It’s…
How to watch videos while driving →
This gentleman likes to watch videos while he drives at night. He places his iPhone on his car’s dashboard and watches the reflection on the windshield.
He wears a headset…
Clown-cigarette umbrella →
Here’s a striking image from the Aug, 1931 issue of Modern Mechanix; an elaborate cigarette umbrella that keeps a clown’s smoke safe from seltzer attacks.
MANY are the inventions devised to…
Random House asks young adult writers to... →
Random House is asking some of its authors of young adult books to sign contracts with “morality clauses” that allow the publisher to take back your advance and cancel your book if you’re caught…
Seinfeld and celebrity computer endorsements →
At Global Nerdy, Joey deVilla comments on Microsoft’s decision to use Jerry Seinfeld as its new spokesman. The best part of Joey’s post is the collection of YouTube videos of…
Beijing and Tibet: GRL's James Powderly, Brian of... →
A representative of Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that 6 American bloggers and pro-Tibet activists who went missing in Beijing for days after being detained by authorities…
Claymation zombie film →
Chainsaw Maid is a creepy, extremely gory, and well-made claymation zombie movie.
If you enjoyed it, here’s more. (Thanks, Johnny Ryan!)
Profile of Hans Monderman, radical traffic... →
Tom Vanderbilt of the The Wilson Quarterly profiles the recently-departed traffic engineer, Hans Monderman, of the “less is more” school of traffic control.
Vanderbilt is the…
Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by... →
Clayton, California Mayor Gregg Manning is punishing two little kids for taking the initiative to sell their own garden produce from a card table in front of their house.
Manning ordered…
Boing Boing tv -- Klaus Pierre: I Want to Stay... →
Klaus Pierre, a French/German actor-waiter-whatever, aspires against all odds to become America’s next great action hero. Today, in the final chapter of our observational documentary of…
Reminiscing about The Knack's "Good Girls Don't" →
I took my family to a free (and terrific!) The Knack concert in Woodland Hills, Californian on Sunday, and used my digital camera to take a crappy video of the band performing my…
Maya Angelou on understanding character →
This is a fantastic Maya Angelou quote:
I???ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree…
Weight Watchers is an RPG →
Clive Thompson looks at the latest iteration of the Weight Watchers online tool and concludes that the program has turned into an RPG:
Think about it. As with an RPG, you roll a virtual character,…
McCain's D&D character stats →
With the McCain campaign smearing Dungeons and Dragons players, Wired’s Threat Level blog is asking its readers to come up with character descriptions or Monster Manual blurbs for McCain:
1st…
Tees say Made in USA in Chinese →
Thomas sez, “Misterchen has created some clever shirts that say ‘Made in USA’ in Chinese.” Made In The USA Tee (Thanks, Thomas!)
Data-centers built out of sealed shipping... →
Microsoft’s new data-centres are comprised of entire sealed shipping containers that are slotted into racks and left to run until a critical mass of their processor units have failed, then are…
"Roger! I said ocsillate -- not osculate!" →
Geeky gag cartoon from 1961. (Note the “oscillyscope” on the workbench.) Oscilloscope Humor
Photos of disassembled household appliances →
Flickr user Brittnybadger has a drop-dead gorgeous set of disassembled household appliances, saying, “this was my senior thesis project at the hartford art school this past year…i took apart…
Whitney Houston Saves A Rough News Day [Take Me... →
My friends, the Idolator RSS reader is rough, rough going during the waning days of August. To give you a sampling of the “news” items I can write about right now:
• Miley Cyrus…
Cootie 2008 Collection →
Taking a spin on throwback American culture, Japanese outfit Cootie Productions, are quite successful in their interpretation of the past. Present in the collection are visible influences…
The Simpsons x Kid Robot →
In one of the biggest blockbuster toy releases of the summer, the all-time greatest cartoon family makes the jump to the designer toy world with Kid Robot. Twenty four different…
J.Augur Design 2008 Fall/Winter Collection →
Based out of California, bag designer Judith Augur began her company J.Augur in 2004, wanting to create something new out of the old, essentially. Combining vintage materials including…
Kent Brownridge, the former Wenner Media ...... →
Kent Brownridge, the former Wenner Media honcho who came out of retirement last year to become CEO and chairman of Blender publishers Alpha Media Group, stepped down from his CEO role…
Metallica Remember The Days That Came Many Years... →
ARTIST: Metallica TITLE: “The Day That Never Comes” WEB DEBUT: Aug. 21, 2008
ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: It’s a bit hard to tell, given the very degraded quality of the QuickTime stream, but…
Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by... →
Clayton, California Mayor Gregg Manning is punishing two little kids for taking the initiative to sell their own garden produce from a card table in front of their house.
Manning ordered…
Reminiscing about The Knack's "Good Girls Don't" →
I took my family to a free (and terrific!) The Knack concert in Woodland Hills, Californian on Sunday, and used my digital camera to take a crappy video of the band performing my…
adidas 4 Elements of Hip-Hop Collection →
Dropping at adidas Originals store later this month, will be a set of Hip-Hop inspired sneakers from the three striped brand. Consisting of shoes and matching apparel, the lineup is…
Magical Design x WTAPS Belt Buckle →
Working together with Mr. Uchiyama from Japanese accessories specialists Magical Design, WTAPS revealed a piece from next seasons collection. Consisting of silver and brass, the buckle…