Posts tagged with Minutemen Arcade Game

March 16, 2009 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |

This 8-bit game plays on many levels of nostalgia to promote the new Watchmen movie. If you love side-scrolling fighting games like Double Dragon, this should be a fun little distraction from work.

 

I think Mark Dean Veca seeks to melt brains so that he can use said melted brains as source material for his work. Read more

These playful vinyl stickers add character to any boring power point outlet. They’re perfect for those folk who take home decor seriously. Just keep them away from the kiddies who may be even more inclined to shove objects into the sockets and zap themself. Read more

Not much more needs to be said about this. Ricky Gervais, the funniest man in England, meets Larry David, the funniest man in America. Wit and genius collides. Very, very clever.

Forget about the giant Nazca lines that can only be seen from space (ooohhh, spooky), this effort from Argentine farmer Pedro Martin Ureta to create a guitar from 7,000 cypress and eucalyptus trees is even more mind-bending. Read more

I’m one of those people who lament the death of analog film as a medium, not because I romanticize the process, but because I love the unpredictable imperfections inherent in non-digital formats. Read more

Though most people in the West think of mahjong as a mysterious game old Chinese people play, it’s actually gets quite rowdy when people get together to play it. Rowdy is certainly a good adjective for Mahjongg, the exquisitely danceable electro-whatever outfit from Chicago who draw as much from Afrobeat as they do vocoder-laden sleaze rock from the 70s.

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Adidas’ new Star Wars kicks are super-stars. The Storm Trooper helmets on shoe tongues are my favorite. I want Chubaka to wear them.

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Matthew Dear’s Black City album totem

Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool! Read more

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Benjamin Edminston

Benjamin Edminston’s psychedelic heads seem to have some fearful wisdom behind their blissed-out eyes. Read more

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Pencils made from recycled newspaper

The problem with awesome things like these pencils made out of recycled newspaper is that you almost don’t want to use them.

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Matt Leines

Here are a couple awesome pieces by Matt Leines that were recently on display in the Doubting Thomases exhibit at Nudashank gallery in Baltimore. Gives me ideas for Halloween. Read more

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Doctor Who TARDIS zipper robe

Nerd-attack! Man, this TARDIS zipper robe is so much cooler than any Star Wars crap people are hawking this days. This is for the true gangsta nerd.

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Created by graphic t shirt label, the-affair, and printed on beautifully soft American Apparel. Limited edition of 200.

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