The Suzan are one of those bands that resist categorization like the Mujahideen resist foreign invaders. You start off with a quartet of punk-inspired Japanese girls, throw in some doo wop melodies, xylophone and tribal drums, and finish it off with surf guitar and a smattering of playful electronic lines — voila, The Suzan. The […]

I don’t know why, but I’m a pretty big fan of pop-up books. Both that ABC3D book and Popville are legitimate works of art, and when done right they’re their own genre of awesomeness. It appears this Il était une fois book fits the above category, as this trailer for the book hints at. Illustrated […]

For its fourth (and final) edition, the annual Vader Project commissions world class artists to re-imagine a lifesize replica of Darth Vader’s iconic helmet. This year the customizations were unreal, provided by superlative artists like Jeff Soto, Gary Baseman, Joe Ledbetter, Peter Kuper, Jermaine Rogers, BXH, The Pizz, Dalek, Paul Frank, Ron English, Michelle Valigura, […]

There were rumors swirling that the Spider-Man reboot would be helmed by Wes Anderson. While I think Anderson is basically gold (how awesome was Fantastic Mr. Fox?), I’m not sure he’d fit the superhero action genre — it makes you wonder tho. Well wonder no more, thanks to Jeff Loveness.He created this parody short film […]

This is borderline amazing — according to the Daily Mail, a British woman named Kate Madison was so inspired by Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy that she decided to film her own prequel…for $40,000. She invested $13,000 of her savings, made a trailer, and raised the rest to film Born Of Hope. Everyone […]

Designed by Peter Dudas, the Hybrid City Bicycle concept combines high technology and cutting edge materials with a minimalist design. The starkly clean and elegant silhouette is accomplished by hiding the brake cables in the frame and substituting the transmission chain with a system of internal gear wheels. Lastly, Dudas incorporated hubless wheels. The Hybrid […]

There’s been a lot of furniture that I’ve seen that has stimulated me in some way, either challenged me intellectually with its advanced language or struck me with its simplicity and clean minimalism. There has, however, never been furniture that has actually turned me on…and I never thought there would be. Yet, here we are. […]

It’s nice to see Peter Jackson going back to his roots, in a way, and directing a film that’s closer to Heavenly Creatures than to his recent big budget extravaganzas (awesome as they are — except King Kong, let’s just sweep that one under the rug shall we?). The Lovely Bones, like Heavenly Creatures, is […]