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Summer’s almost over but that doesn’t mean you have to stop traveling. World Travel Tracker Scratch Off Maps are a fun way to track your travels. After you’ve visited somewhere, just scratch it off for a colorful piece of decor and a great conversation starter.

Artist Ilia Gyrevich makes unique and functional objects by machining metal. In this video, he shows off how he creates his EDC pens from brass rods, as the metal shavings fly forth in a most satisfying manner. You can buy his wares from the MachinedGift Etsy shop.

Providing flexibility for your living space, Floyd’s upcoming sofa can be assembled and disassembled in minutes. Its pillowed cushions provide the perfect density for sitting, while its frame can be birch wood or upholstered. Pre-orders start 9/17/18 with free shipping.

This unique writing instrument allows artists to draw with a stippling technique without having to constantly raise and lower the pen. The rechargeable pen vibrates its tip rapidly to drop dots of ink onto the page. Reduced price available for a limited time from Massdrop.

We’ve seen some pretty slick wooden marble machines over the years, but we’ve got to hand it to CG motion designer Moby Motion for this purely digital rendition which manages to capture all of the textures and physics in an extremely convincing way.

Art Insider takes us on a tour of the world’s largest architectural model. Located at the Queens Museum, this incredibly detailed miniature of New York City was first revealed at the 1964 World’s Fair, and was updated with new buildings all the way until 1992.

Adrienne Dowling’s animated stop-motion short is a delight, telling the story of a grumpy iceberg inhabitant who catches an unrelenting merman in her net. We couldn’t help but think of The Shape of Water when we watched this. Behind the scenes video here.

Maura Benitez’s desktop kinetic sculpture was inspired by sand mandala. It has two metal spheres that continuously move over white sand. The inner sphere’s movement can be adjusted to create different patterns, while the outer sphere creates a circle every 12 hours.

Görkem Sen performs an improvised piece on a custom-built acoustic instrument called the Yaybahar. The unusual instrument gets its ethereal sound by bowing strings that conduct vibrations down through its neck onto coiled springs, connected to a pair of drum heads.

Card Rebels‘ custom deck gives us insight into what life is like on the other side for the royal court. Each face card and Joker in the unique deck features an image of the back of its subject instead of its front. Available in Royal Red or Imperial Blue designs.

Korean startup SketchOn’s gadget can print skin-safe temporary tattoos just by running it over a body part. Images can be selected from a library or uploaded from a smartphone app. At this point the device is only available for rental usage at events.

Give your coats, hats, and bags a new place to hang out with these wall hooks that look like oversize screw and bolt heads. Sold as a 3-piece set with standard, phillips, and hex head versions. Hanging hardware included.

Throwboy is back with a series of throw pillows inspired by some of Apple’s most iconic designs. The collection includes the 1977 Apple II, 1984 Macintosh, 1998 Bondi Blue iMac, 2001 iPod, and 2007 iPhone. Each pillow measures appx. 13″ x 13″ x 5″.

Director Brett Foxwell spent 10 years working on this incredible stop-motion film in which inanimate objects bring a strange biomechanical alien world to life. We can only imagine how much work was involved given the smoothness of each creature’s movements.

A look at how raw clay is pulled from the earth and transformed by hand into beautiful and intricate sculptures by artisans in Michoacan, Mexico. It’s a wonderful, all too brief look into artistic traditions from Mariano Rentería’s fantastic Mexican Handcraft Masters series.

Filmmaker and composer Stuart Hilton’s son Stanley had his brain scanned for science, and his dad decided to take footage of the sliced up imaging layers, animated them, and set them to a trippy ambient soundtrack. It’s weird to think that we all have this stuff inside our heads.

Sure, you could store your keepsakes in a regular old box, or they could be guarded by a ferocious monster. If given a choice, we’d go with the latter. Boxnmor’s playful handmade wood box has beady little eyes and pointy maple wood teeth to ward off would-be thieves.

Quartertwenty created this slick piece of upcycled modern furniture which is made using cork from inside of aluminum baseball bats. The cork provides style and cushioning, while aluminum rods and steel provide stability. Display model available for $1800.

Created by nine different animators over the course of a year, each tackling 32 seconds (8 bars) of a song before passing it on for the next artist to continue the story, Lucinate’s title track Big Noise is an awesome collaboration. It’s noir in your eyes and dreamy jazz in your ears.

Taiwan design outfit Mininch presents a stainless steel writing instrument that conceals a second purpose. Simply remove the pen’s barrel, undo the safety lock, and you’ve got a tiny pair of scissors that goes anywhere. Given their size, they should be TSA-friendly too.

Tested checked out LEGO enthusiast Flynn de Marco and his friend’s Treasure of the Snake Queen. It’s a six-level animated LEGO sculpture that tells the tale of five adventurers on a quest to defeat the titular monster. It even has lights and sound effects.

Tattoo artist Andres Vrontis creates amazing images by generating ASCII computer art, then meticulously inking each and every tiny character in black to create the illusion of a greyscale image. We’re getting a hand cramp just watching him work.

Animation can be a fun way to tell your story, but not all of us have the technical know-how to do it ourselves. A simple alternative for the aspiring animator, Animatron Studio Pro lets you create fun, mobile-friendly animations right in your browser.

For his latest build, Jackman Works created a jumbo-sized, hand-carved wood replica of a utility knife. It’s fully-functional, and just the right size for opening Paul Bunyon’s Amazon packages. He got the inspiration for the giant knife blade from fellow builder Jimmy DiResta.

A man enjoys his quiet and calm world every day until something loud and distracting enters his universe to shake things up. Animator Dan Castro’s short film proves that less is often sometimes more, and how sound can be just as important in telling a story as imagery.

Dappled Light Studio presents the ultimate take on Jeff Bridges’ character from The Big Lebowski. This urethane resin kit features The Dude achieving zen, enjoying a white russian, a joint, and bowling, while sitting cross-legged on his rug. Assembly and finishing required.

Come for another enveloping tune by alt-folk singer/songwriter Tom Rosenthal, stay for the fantastic and eyecatching visuals by animator/illustrator Chloe Jackson, who blends a sort of 1970s Yellow Submarine sensibility with something uniquely her own.