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Amazing Stories Inside Insane Asylum Suitcases
April 2, 2013When I’m doing an interview, I often ask my subjects what items they’d bring with them to live out the rest of their days on a far away island. Most of us won’t actually find ourselves in that situation—unlike the … Continue reading
More Toy Stories: It’s a Small World After All!
March 19, 2013Here’s a toy story for your Tuesday that’s not snarky like Aled Lewis’ Toy Stories or sad like Michael Wolf’s The Real Toy Story. It’s actually kind of sweet! Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti spent 18 months touring the world and taking pictures. … Continue reading
A Rare Look at the Graffiti Inside West Oakland’s 16th Street Train Station
March 12, 2013West Oakland’s 16th Street train station was designed by architect Jarvis Hunt, and it opened for business (101 years ago) in 1912. In its early days, the station made Oakland a major transportation hub. In later years, Hollywood actors came … Continue reading
Still Lifes with Furries
February 7, 2013Furries are fascinating, so drop that “higher than thou” judgement. Besides, toy art collectors have been known to get into character. (Like these people who dressed up as creations by Junko Mizuno, Camille Rose Garcia, Ferg, KAWS, Gary Baseman and … Continue reading
Kickstarter I’m Supporting: Projecteo, an Adorable Instagram Projector
December 6, 2012I haven’t backed a Kickstarter project in a while, so I hope this isn’t me opening the floodgates to all manner of folks who want free advertising, but here goes anyway. Projecteo is a tiny Instagram projector by Mint Digital. It’s … Continue reading
Sarah Illenberger’s Uplifting Objects
November 29, 2012Sarah Illenberger is a Munich-born, Berlin-based visual communicator. Her work consistently surprises me and makes me smile. She can take two everyday objects (cabbage + dress; apple + hair) and merge them into compound creations that are utterly aberrant, yet … Continue reading
Broccoli World and Other Foodscapes by Carl Warner
November 26, 2012Hungry for more synesthesia? Carl Warner is a UK-based foodscapes designer whose mediums are food and photography. Quoth Carl: I tend to draw a very conventional landscape using classic compositional techniques as I need to fool the viewer into thinking … Continue reading
Sign of the Times: Prince Sends Artist Troy Gua a Cease and Desist
November 16, 2012It’s been almost a year since Troy Gua’s Le Petit Prince appeared on this site. But unfortunately Gua’s meticulous miniature version of Prince the musician won’t make it through to what would’ve been its first anniversary. In what feels like an … Continue reading
Michael Wolf’s Factory Photos Tell The Real Toy Story
Written on December 27, 2012 by jeremySometimes I fall prey to romanticizing the anonymous precision of factory-made multiples. It takes only a reporter going undercover at Foxconn or photos from Michael Wolf’s The Real Toy Story to blow away those myths and sober me right up. Lots … Continue reading →