Awesome Leisure

Sideshow Collectibles has one of this year’s best Christmas gifts for deep-pocketed Star Wars fans. This life-size figure of Rogue One‘s lethal comic K-2SO stands 7’8″ tall and is made of fiberglass, resin and metal. Its head is moveable and has light-up eyes.

The Future is Now: Neon Rising is the second edition of the second book in Josan Gonzalez’s cyberpunk series. Almost all of its 212 pages has full-page illustrations, which tie into each other to create a “silent graphic novel.” It comes with three postcards.

Kammok’s camp blankets are made of waterproof ripstop nylon. The Mountain and the Field both have fleece interiors and can be worn as ponchos, while the Mesa has stake down corners. You can snap any two of the blankets together.

The Firelight Flask is for folks who enjoy drinking with friends while outdoors. The 750ml flask comes with two grooved tumblers that attach to the flask’s top and bottom via magnets. Both the flask and the tumblers have double-wall insulation.

Musician Isaac May celebrates his excitement for season two of Stranger Things with a cool acoustic cover version of Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein’s enveloping, synthwave theme song, performed on the kinds of instruments typically played in bluegrass music.

Downhill mountain biker Antoine Bizet shared this first-person footage of his first run at the 2017 Red Bull Rampage. This viewpoint of the death-defying course really gives you a good idea just how big a pair of balls you need to compete in this event.

GoSun’s latest product is a significantly lighter and smaller version of its highly efficient solar stove. The GoSun Go heats up to 500ºF (260ºC), enough to cook up to 14oz of food or heat 400mL of liquid in 20 to 30 minutes. It comes with a shock absorbing case and a kickstand.

Better late than never. Steam now has a digital version of its gift cards. You can send them to anyone who’s been on your Friend list for at least 3 days. Its value will automatically be converted to your friend’s currency. Don’t worry, you can still gift specific games.

Play with Overwatch‘s Shimada brothers even if you’re offline. Both Genji and Hanzo come with their respective weapons as well as dragon attack accessories. Genji has a double-jointed neck and movable chest parts, while Hanzo has a highly detailed tattoo and costume.

DragonFly Fabrication shows off a fun way to deliver candy to trick or treaters this Halloween. This 3D printed, wrist-mounted gadget fires candy corns towards their recipient with the push of a button. Download the build plans on Thingiverse.

Performance Designed Products has a neat accessory for Nintendo Switch owners. The Light-up Dock Shield comes with two acrylic panels with officially licensed artwork and LEDs that have 17 color/effect settings.

The music video for Spoon’s latest single takes place entirely inside of the interface for Adobe Photoshop. But rather than retouching lead singer Britt Daniel to spruce up his look, things go totally off the rails.

Leo Moracchioli applies his his trademark blend of angry guitar and hoarse-voiced scream-singing to Rihanna’s 2007 megahit Umbrella. We like to think that Leo’s umbrella has a razor-sharpened steel tip.

A fantastic new remix of the classic Queen track All Dead, All Dead, created from a raw session of Freddie Mercury’s lead vocals – which didn’t appear on the album – and the instrumentation from 1977’s News of the World. Pre-order the amazing 40th anniversary box set now.

The Q shows us how to use plastic soda bottles, tire valves, tubing, and a few other bits to build a homebrew compressed air weapon which can fire a seemingly endless stream of pellets. We’re thinking you could ramp this thing up to include as many soda bottles as you can carry.

Daniel Day-Lewis is retiring from acting. For his last film, he worked once again with director Paul Thomas Anderson. Phantom Thread is about a renowned dressmaker in 1950’s London. The master of his glamorous life, he meets his match in a strong-willed woman.

While it’s not made from porcelain, Hot Toys‘ special 1:6 scale figure is still 100% awesome. It stands 11.8″ tall, has 30 points of articulation, and interchangeable hands and weapons. Exclusively from Sideshow Collectibles. Save 11% with code FANCY for a limited time.

Tune in on Friday, 10/27/2017 starting at 11am CDT for Red Bull’s epic annual mountain bike ride. Riders with balls of steel will return to the rugged and rocky cliffs of Virgin, Utah, tearing down 1000 vertical feet of treacherous terrain for supremacy. Watch the Trailer here.

The Trinity College Accidentals perform an outstanding a capella cover version of LCD Soundsystem’s classic ode to the Big Apple, New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, with senior soloist Connor Kennedy bringing on the lead vocals.

Miami Sound Machine meets Trapt meets Yes meats Incubus meets Meatloaf in DJ Cummerbund’s latest masterpiece of unlikely musical fusion. Seriously, how does the hell does he envision these combinations?

We don’t know if Joe Turner’s creation is indeed the world’s smallest chess set, but it could be the most portable one. Joe made the ring and all of the tiny chess pieces out of silver, then topped the ring off with a board made from fossil ivory and ebony.

The legendary and inimitable singer/songwriter dropped by the NPR Music offices to turn in a captivating performance, filled with the perfect blend of sardonic wit, sentimentality, and raspy vocals we’ve come to appreciate over many decades. Even at age 73, he’s still got it.

The computer animation scene has enough technology and talent that realism is no longer the ultimate goal. Animator Alan Warburton breaks down some of the ways that commercial, scientific and artistic animators have gone beyond expressing reality.