1 Apr
Sometimes giant samurais, mechs, dragons & blondes In schoolgirl outfits CAN save your movie

OK, I know Miss Madeleine annihilated Sucker Punch last week with a blisteringly accurate review, but after seeing it this week I just gotta throw in my 2 cents. First off, she’s technically 100% right — the movie was riddled with weakness and flaws: the acting was atrocious (Vanessa Hudgens is a Golden Raspberry frontrunner), […]


We were all up on the Sucker Punch trailer ever since we first laid eyes on it this past summer at Comic Con. After 300 and Watchmen, faith in director Zack Snyder was strong. Sucker Punch certainly had every far flung element needed to be a great flick, and maybe that’s the problem. Miss Madeleine […]


In this 176 page book, Tokyo-based authors Ivan Vartanian and Kyoko Wada take a holistic view of Japanese art throughout its 5 millenniums of history and analyze common threads found throughout. See/Saw finds ways to unite such chronologically disparate themes as Giant Robots and ancient Samurai illustrations, or uniting Murakimi’s Superflat school of art with […]


Cheeming Boey has taken one of the most disposable, valueless byproducts of Western society and transformed it with substance and value. Boey performs his alchemy on these toss-away with beautiful, at times incredibly intricate pieces of art. Using only a Sharpie and sheer creativity, Boey’s unique choice of canvas has earned him the title of […]


17 Dec
Shun Higo Nokami Gentleman's Knife

Have you ever been out on the town and suddenly needed to prepare some fresh sashimi? All caught up with some Grade A hamachi and no way to slice it? It’s in these moments of culinary need that you’ll wish you’d picked up the Shun Higo Nokami Gentleman’s Knife from William Sonoma. With its slim […]


20 Oct
Bring the future into the present tense

Giuliano Fujiwara and has just launched a new line of high-top sneakers as part of his Fall/Winter 2010 collection. Handcrafted in Italy, these futuristic high tops come in a array of colors and styles, a couple of which challenge the traditional boundaries for how high a sneaker can (and should?) go. The padded tongues and […]


15 Oct
Jessica Bloom shoots the NYCC for LIAS

We were happy to sponsor The Cultyard at this year’s New York Comic-Con this past weekend, as it represented a lot of what we love here at Lost In a Supermarket. Namely art of all types, comics, vinyl toys, world class artists and oh yes — plenty of nerds. Oh-so-many nerds, in oh-so-many packages. Hot […]


8 Oct
If you live in NYC, call in sick today and nurture your inner nerd

We told you a couple weeks ago about The Cultyard at the New York Comic Convention this year, and the time is nigh! If you live in New York, call in sick today — or just take a long lunch — and hit up the New York Comic Con for the The Cultyard collective. The […]