Shenyang: An Interactive 3D Gallery Where You Play with the Paintings
The Shenyang Gallery is currently showing a series of interactive 3D paintings where the audience is encourage to be part of the art work. Kicking it with Bruce Lee? Dione!This is an awesome way to...
View ArticleHouse Tour: Vincent Kartheiser's Compact Masculine Cabin
When Mad Men actor Vincent Kartheiser found success and bought his own Hollywood home, he ignored the sprawling mansions and purchased this, instead: a 580 square foot cabin. The space is full of...
View ArticleHow to: Build a Workbench for Every Craft
Artist, maker, and friend of ManMade Mr. Lentz details his process for making a sturdy and efficient workbench designed for all kinds of crafts and projects. The more projects I finish, the more I...
View ArticleDIY Idea: Make a Large-Scale Pegboard Organization Wall
Apartment Diet shares this cool image of pegboard organization writ large. Taking inspiration from small scale pegboard sheets, where the holes are spaced one inch on center, a large sheet of plywood...
View ArticleWhy Creative People Sometimes Make No Sense
Matthew Schuler has been reading the scholar's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi book Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People, and has had a few reflections based his own creative experience. Matthew...
View ArticleThis Minor League Baseball Team Went Bald to Raise Money for Cancer Research
Wahl Grooming recently teamed up with St. Baldrick's Foundation and the Clinton LumberKings baseball team to launch a charity campaign raising money for cancer research. In the city of Clinton, where...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of a Folding Pocket Knife
An interesting little graphic that details what's actually going on inside three different kinds of folding knives. Just learned that my favorites all fall into the "lockback" category. Cause the more...
View ArticleFree Downloads: Large Scale Printable Patent Wall Art
The team at Primer offer these free pieces of downloadable art. Just snag one (or all) of these vintage patent designs - such as the Fender Precision Bass, E. Sauer's Camera with Coupled Exposure...
View ArticleFieldwork: A Guide to Making Things
To celebrate their one year anniversary, design and branding firm Fieldwork created "A Guide to Making Things."The ideas shared were born out of their own reflection and process and they grew over...
View ArticleColor Coded Candy by Emily Blincoe
Austin-based photographer Emily Blincoe has been experience with shapes and texture inside of different color families. In this series, she takes on candy, gum, and other sweets. Not sure if this is...
View ArticleNew Epic Study Reveals What Men Need to Live a Happy Life
Seventy-five years ago, in 1938, Harvard University began a study following the lives of 250+ young men to see how the various ups and downs of adulthood would affect their experience. As Feelguide...
View ArticleGift Guide: 10 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Stylish Guy On Your List
Whether you're actually looking to buy some clothing and gear for a man, or just fulfilling your mom's wish to "send her a list," here are my (Gabriel's) ten picks for style-oriented holiday gifts.We...
View ArticleHow to: Make Edible Spoons - The Perfect Holiday Treat!
A utensil that can be eaten = less cleaning and more food. Sign us up!Scissors, Paper, Wok may have created the perfect holiday treat: edible spoons! I know, sounds crazy right? But just look at that...
View ArticleDIY Idea: Make a Balanced Bookshelf
My friend Jaime recently shared this super cool decor installation piece from Cush Design Studio on her always excellent site, Design Milk. Entitled "Balance Bookshelf," each item is handmade by Chris...
View ArticleThe Bourbon Family Tree... and What You Can Learn from It
GQ shares this fascinating chart excerpted from the new book The Kings County Distillery Guide to Urban Moonshining: How to Drink and Make Whiskey by Colin Spoelman and David Haskell. In it, you can...
View ArticleBlow My Mindsday: November 20, 2013
Each Wednesday, I post some of my favorite can't-miss links, images, and otherwise mindblowing goodies from across the web. A fascinating looks at what it took to create the A7L number 056, the space...
View ArticleGuy Creates Homemade Camera Rig to Capture These Amazing DIY Macro Snowflake...
Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov created a surprisingly simple homemade macro photography rig, with which he was able to shoot these incredible images of intricate snowflakes. The setup involves a...
View ArticleThe Process: Crafting a High End Kitchen Knife from Scratch
Murray Carter is the 17th generation Yoshimoto bladesmith. He was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but and traveled to Japan when he was eighteen, inspired by a karate competition. There, he...
View ArticleA Rare Interview with "Calvin and Hobbes" Creator Bill Watterson
I know the first thing that blew my mind, creatively. I mean, I remember especially liking the "Under the Sea" part of The Little Mermaid when I saw it in the theater, and realizing that I could tell...
View ArticleThe Museum of 60,000+ Everyday Objects
The Ettore Guatelli Museum near the city of Parma, Italy, houses a collection of more than 60,000 used artifacts that reflect the importance of the things we used everyday: tools, toys, kitchenware,...
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