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Super Rockers

Super Rockers

Andrés Moncayo imagines popular Marvel and DC superheroes as musicians. Plus whatever Spider-Man is supposed to be. Aquaman and Thor are the best. Available as prints and graphics on various merch.

Circa 1948

Circa 1948

An immersive art installation and story in the form of an app, Circa 1948 transports you back in time to post-war Vancouver, BC and allows you to take in the history of the then developing city by eavesdropping on long lost conversations.

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Black Friday

Black Friday
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Seph Lawless’s photo book captures the ruinporn of formerly bustling American shopping malls, which have succumbed to big box retailers, E-commerce, and changes in social behavior. Available in coffee table or e-Book formats.

Compendium of Basketball Jerseys

Compendium of Basketball Jerseys
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Pop Chart Lab picked an all-star roster of 165 basketball jerseys from 1921 to the present for this poster. Most of them are from the NBA, with cameos from the Globetrotters and basketball movies. Death to sleeved jerseys!

Movies Reimagined

Movies Reimagined

Al Pacino as Wolverine. Sammy Davis Jr. as Mr. Pink. Pam Grier as Ellen Ripley. Illustrator Peter Stults likes to make posters of today’s movies as if they were released decades ago. More on Peter’s Behance page.

Batman Coffee Table

Batman Coffee Table

Artist Charles Lushear of Bohemian Workbench created this awesome table in the likeness of the Bat’s iconic emblem. Sadly, the table isn’t available for sale, but you could always buy one of his giant NES controller tables instead.

The Beast Inside

The Beast Inside

Spoken-word rap and storytelling by Tilawn Burtzloff, a young man who has struggled with homelessness, and how he copes with the harsh world through creativity. A film by Amy Enser & Drew Christie for the American Refugees project.

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Banksy: Artist in Residence

Banksy: Artist in Residence

In lieu of an acceptance speech for winning the 2014 Webby Awards Person of the Year, graffiti and urban artist Banksy made this video summarizing the spectacle that won him the award, his “residency” in New York.

Hannibal Prints

Hannibal Prints
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For the season two Hannibal finale, Phantom City Creative and Mondo will release these creepy limited-edition prints of the doctor. They’re awesome, though we’re not sure we’d want them watching us. Follow Mondo on Twitter for details.

X-Mans

X-Mans

Brandon Bird asked his fellow artist friends to make art based on the amateurish sketches in an X-Men coloring book that he found at a dollar store. Amy Dixon’s Jean Grey is the bomb, but all the Cyclops pieces are top notch as well.

Faig Ahmed’s Carpets

Faig Ahmed’s Carpets

Azerbaijan artist Faig Ahmed combines the Middle Eastern style of carpet making with urban art and digital media, creating pieces that look like they’re just altered images but are actually purely embroidered.

Blown Sugar Animals

Blown Sugar Animals

While you have to go to a fancy pastry competition here in the States to witness this art form, in Xian, China, it’s as easy as going to this street vendor, who crafts intricate candy animals by blowing into molten hot sugar.

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Signs from the Near Future

Signs from the Near Future

This single purpose Tumblr takes a page from the back of Wired to envision how modern technologies and changes in social behavior might affect the warning signs we see in everyday places. We were promised jet packs.

Perpetually Melting Sculpture

Perpetually Melting Sculpture

Artist Takeshi Murata created this mind-bending illusion which appears to be a molten sphere of metal that is constantly flowing. The effect is based on a zoetrope, using strobe lights and synchronized still images. Read more here.

Pop Culture Faceswaps

Pop Culture Faceswaps

The Faceswap meme involves digitally switching out the faces of people and characters, transforming once familiar scenes into surreal alternative universes. We have to say that Dame Judy Dench looks pretty dapper as 007.

Disney’s Multiplane Camera

Disney’s Multiplane Camera

Walt Disney shows off an incredible invention his studio created in the 1950s – a camera which could capture multiple layers simultaneously to produce impressive background depth, a dramatic advancement in animated filmmaking.

Tattooed Figurines

Tattooed Figurines

Jessica Harrison’s Flash is a series of porcelain figurines of women in ball gowns with tattoos on their exposed skin. If you think that’s hardcore, check out her earlier work. Flash is currently on display at Galerie L.J.

SlideRider

SlideRider

Inventor Trisha Cleveland is working with Quirky in hopes of producing this set of folding mats which convert staircases into impromptu indoor slides. It’s designed for kids, but we’d like to head downstairs this way every day.

Six-Pack Bowling Concept

Six-Pack Bowling Concept

While most beer bottles end up being recycled or trashed, Russian designer Constantin Bolimond envisions durable wood and plastic bottles which could double as bowling pins once you’re done enjoying their contents.

Laser-Cut Movie Posters

Laser-Cut Movie Posters
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Artist Spacewolf laser engraves cherry wood to create these totally awesome limited-edition posters. In addition to flicks like Godzilla, he’s done posters of popular TV shows like Game of Thrones and True Detective as well.

Agile Catcher Robot

Agile Catcher Robot

Engineers at the EPFL are working on a robot arm that can figure out how to catch objects on its own. Like humans, the robot learns through imitation and trial and error. Robot baseball is going to be short and boring.

Nike GTD AM1 Red October

Nike GTD AM1 Red October

JBF Customs made this one-off pair for Cleveland’s Got Sole. Its upper and lower halves are from different Air Max 1 releases. It also has lizard, python and sueded crocodile skin, lambskin leather and a custom painted midsole.

Periodic Table of Heavy Metals

Periodic Table of Heavy Metals
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Pop Chart Labs not-so-scientific wall chart catalogs 303 metal bands from AC/DC to Zyklon and everyone in between. Our favorite element: Te – The Tony Danza Tapdance Experience. Seriously, has anyone heard of Zyklon?

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