Posts Written by Paul Strauss

Artist Yutaka Sone carved this incredibly-detailed Manhattan map from a chunk of marble. It measures 104″ x 33″ x 22″, and weighs over 2.5 tons. At David Zwirner Gallery through 10/29.

A brilliant young boy searches for the lock that fits the key left by his father killed on 9/11. This one has Oscar written all over it – assuming the movie’s as good as the trailer.

Hark back to a time before touch screens, when we all relied on the cursor to do our bidding. Mike Mak’s Big Big Cursor works as well as your finger while preventing smudges and scratches.

There is a day when every meme must come to an end. Sadly, that day has arrived for poor Nyan Cat. There’s no pot of gold (or 8 more lives) at the end of this Pop-Tart cat’s rainbow – just a toaster.

Mike Doyle creates these brilliantly detailed, decrepit Victorian mansions to represent the fragility of life; he uses no foreign materials, just lots of tiny plastic LEGO bricks. (Thanks Don!)

Are you trapped in your room? Looking for a way out? Watch and learn from this 1979 Finnish instructional video. Still lost? Try turning on the captions for some extra assistance.

We’re usually too busy being distracted by Maru’s tomfoolery to appreciate his silky grey fur and big green eyes. That all changes with this loving, up-close look at the Internet’s favorite feline.

These lamps from Tabisso will not only make sure that your taste in lighting makes a statement, but that their furniture is properly punctuated. The lamps come in over 20 different forms from @ to ?

Composer Matteo Negrin’s music soars thanks to the animated visual accompaniment that Alice Ninni, Luca Cattaneo and Alberto Filippini provided for his “Lacrime Di Giulietta.”

These strange videos chronicling the rough-and-tumble lives of a bushman and his loyal buffalo steed might be lost on us without the enlightening commentary provided by the The Possum Posse.

A group of guys in Moscow decide to take a motorcycle ride, and play a little concert while they head down the highway. We’d feel better if they were wearing helmets, though.

You might need to go to Japan to get your hands on these Chuck Taylors, but if you’re the outdoorsy-type you might just have to. We’re especially enamored of the fuzzy ones.

If you ever find yourself face-to-face with an horde of zombies without a shotgun, the Cold Steel Throwing Shovel is your weapon of choice. Modeled after an actual Soviet special forces weapon.

Want this Rogue Touch watch? One winner gets it – or any other in-stock watch from TokyoFlash Japan. To enter, email [email protected] with a link to the watch you want. (Contest has ended.)

The trademark sounds of dubstep are typically achieved with electronic effects, but Pinn Panelle manages to reproduce the musical stylings of Skrillex with guitars, drum and bass (mostly).

This cool stop-motion film by animator Sarah Wickens was made using rays of reflected sunlight as the primary medium. We’ve never seen light grow fingernails before, though.

The Simpsons had another guest animator for its couch gag, John Kricfalusi, better known as the creator of Ren & Stimpy, proving that John K. just gets weirder with age.

After a catastrophic fire ripped through a Ford dealership, firefighters managed to drive the crushed remnants of an F150 4×4 out of the rubble, like a phoenix rising from the ashes.

This girl is practicing some moves for her drill team, when her kid brother decides to pop into the frame. Not only does he completely upstage her, she has no clue until the end. Smack that!

While Marquese “Nonstop” Scott’s moves may not be as sublime as last time, there are times in this more down-to-earth clip when he makes us wonder if his skeleton has been replaced with rubber.

26 classic songs, and not a single coherent lyric amongst them – at least not the parts Jane Lui, Michael T. and Jonathan Batiste chose to perform in this medley directed by Joe Sabia.

Toyota hasn’t made a new Supra in almost a decade, but rumors pop up from time-to-time, and designer Andreas Fougner hopes this is what the next Supra will look like. We have to agree.

We love the bold typography and nonsensical sayings that Noa Bembibre’s calendar has to offer. Sold in an edition of 700, it’s printed in four colors on and finished with black ribbon binding,