Posts Written by Paul Strauss

This insanely detailed, working wooden model of a Caterpillar excavator took Rob Fisher’s Woodchuck and Co. 3,000+ hours to build, using 4,000+ handcrafted pieces of cherry and walnut wood.

(Spoilers: But you’ve finished by now, right?) Portal 2 fan Pedro Calvo created his own music video for the game’s hilarious closing song. GLaDOS really needs to try out for American Idol next year.

Photographer Scott Alexander was shooting video for the Red Bull National Wake with a Phantom HD Gold camera, and captured this awesome slow-mo footage of a guy doing a flip off a wakeboard rack.

To promote Cirque Éloize‘s imminent arrival at the Birmingham Hippodrome, this good sport reporter bravely submits his most vulnerable body parts to the harrowing whims of a quicksilver bicycle stunt.

If you enjoyed the drifting on the rooftop in the previous vid, then you’ll probably like the way the BMW 1M seamlessly slips through the Tetris-like cuts in the concrete walls here. (Thanks David!)

No, it’s not that kind of dog fight, it’s a TA kind of dog fight – balloon animal versus origami canines, duking it out thought bubbles and all on this funny tee from David Thorley, available at Threadless.

Alloy Yachts’ Vertigo 220 vessel was designed by a naval architect and combines the best of contemporary living with oceanic luxury, with sweeping teak floors and Christian Liaigre interiors.

Get a gander at some kick-ass character progressions you’ll have available to you when you play in the Bounty Hunter subclass in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Jetpack uppercuts, FTW!

A young filmmaker adds an extra gadget to his Amazon cart and gets more than he bargained for. A clever way to advertise Magic Bullet Suite 11, the effects package used to embellish this short film.

Featuring some true experts on the subject, this ‘Rockutorial’ for the air instrument app from everyone’s favorite tubed potato chip is the perfect preparation for your Pringles’ speaker can jams.

In the future, London’s Brixton district will be home to countless robotic workers, living amongst humans, forced to do the jobs they no longer want. Solid social commentary, brilliant CG animation.

Piff attempts to fool Penn and Teller for a chance to open for them in Las Vegas. Will the dragon’s secrets be revealed? Will he trick the master tricksters? Why isn’t this show on in the States?

Steinway Lyngdorf’s compact speakers enhance resonance using a special dipole tweeter which envelops the listening space. The matching boundary woofers produce tight, directional bass.

The original Light Mine gets a major upgrade, shining bright white light wherever you need it with 11 neodymium magnets, 8 white LEDs on front, and 4 under the red lens on back.

Declaration 1776 are diversifying their product line in true American fashion with these U.S. made laser etched iPhone 4 covers. The peel-and-stick designs come in Cherry, Walnut and Black Cherry.

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Yeah, we know the fireworks are faked in with computers, but we still think it’s cool way to celebrate Independence Day. Now go outside, eat some barbecue and blow some sh*t up already.

Weird Al takes on B.o.B.’s “Nothin’ On You“, with his latest track, “Another Tattoo”. Hey, why didn’t we think about tattooing our grocery list on our wrist before now?

Korean artist Kim Hyun creates intricate humanoid forms using various dice. Each die is drilled, carefully placed on wires sculpted around plaster casts, which are later removed.

Kick the keg to the curb and upgrade your outdoor parties with this stainless steel beer tap, powered by compressed CO2. Fully equipped, it can grill brats and burgers to go with your brewskies.

We’ve seen plenty of projection mapping, but this is the first time we’ve seen it done on a tennis court. We have to say “Game. Set. Match!” for this awfully cool production by 1024 Architecture.

Kids, this is why you don’t do drugs. Watch and learn what happens as this couple smokes up some Salvia Divinorum without quite understanding the “legal” hallucinogen’s consequences.

Take the next 12 minutes out of your day to feast your eyeballs and earballs(?) on gameplay from Batman: Arkham City, including a brief tease of the newly-playable Catwoman. She’s such a bad kitty.