Australian skateboard manufacturer Globe has announced a collaboration with Eames Office on their line of new skateboard decks with midcentury designs and wood bending techniques of Charles and Ray Eames.… Read the rest of the article: Dig these Eames-inspired skateboard decks

On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the comic "Love and Rockets" is being saluted by publisher Fantagraphics with a ma$$ive compilation of the first 40 books. Fans will enjoy… Read the rest of the article: Legendary comic creators the Hernandez brothers speak

Right from the get-go Taschen's massive 475 page book "Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir" is visually arresting. The 50's black & white crime scene photo on the triple-thick book… Read the rest of the article: Take a lurid look at LA noir

Beloved Seattle-area burger stand chain Dick's is celebrating their 69th anniversary by rolling back prices to 1954: 19 cents for a hamburger! Much to the consternation of Seattle transplants, local… Read the rest of the article: Seattle area folks might like this inflation-busting burger sale

Clean off your goggles and take a gander at the steampunk fashions and vintage gear in today's Seattle Times photo essay. The Seattle Steamrats tour the Georgetown Steam Plant and its… Read the rest of the article: Steampunks tour steam plant

For his birthday my son requested a special cake from a specific bakery. Turns out the cake is kind of famous among gamers. The cake promised at the ending of… Read the rest of the article: The cake is NOT a lie

This photo essay of car designer Hideo Kodama doing car renderings is fragrantly nostalgic for me. We learned these tools and techniques in design school in the 70s: drawing with… Read the rest of the article: Dig this old-school illustration demo by car designer Hideo Kodama

The BBC series The Detectorists has released a special single episode/movie in December 2022, now streaming on Acorn.  Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Toby Jones (The Hunger Games)… Read the rest of the article: Found again: BBC's The Detectorists

Our long, national nightmare is over: finally, a IOT solution to rewinding VHS tapes! Enjoy this nifty spoof by Eric Drysdale, a writer, comedian and 3-D photography enthusiast in New… Read the rest of the article: Still rewinding your VHS tapes manually?

Sex advice columnist Dan Savage uses AI to write his latest piece—but with a clever twist. Can you, the reader, tell his actual advice from an AI-generated response? To find… Read the rest of the article: Dan Savage's AI challenge

Among 2022's "Top 5" lists was KTLA's "5 of the Worst Happy Meal toys over the years." Not on the list is my favorite "clunk" Happy Meal toy: the unironic 1991… Read the rest of the article: Worst Happy Meal toys ever

In his column on the future of the comics business ICV2 contributor Rob Salkowitz included a section about the impact of AI-generated art and writing. This caught my attention: "In… Read the rest of the article: Columnist uses AI to write review about AI

Here's the story on how Gerry Anderson's Brit TV show UFO (no puppets!) led to the 1970's US sci-fi TV show Space: 1999. The use of interspersed clips from each… Read the rest of the article: The story of how cancelled sci-fi show UFO led to hit series Space: 1999

British DIYer Colin Furze is well-known to boingboingers for his crazy projects and his even more crazy/fun YouTube videos.  Here's a recent doozie: an over-2-hour-long compilation of building a secret… Read the rest of the article: Real-life secret tunnel digging video

The actual posable figures used to make the beloved 1964 Rankin Bass Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer stop-motion animated TV show have been found. The update at the end of… Read the rest of the article: Rankin Bass's Santa and Rudolph figures found, as posed in the animated TV classic

Here's a hot idea of an Xmas gift for the maker on your list (or you): welding lessons. Hazard Factory in Seattle looks like a crazy fun (but safe) place… Read the rest of the article: Give the gift of welding

Many people dread being gifted a holiday fruit cake ("Oh, you shouldn't have!"). Not everyone is fan of these dense, baked goods full of non-fresh fruit. But years ago my… Read the rest of the article: The best (fake) holiday fruit cake

Fans of Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet or any of the other Supermarionation puppet shows from 60's British TV will find this send up irresistible. It's "Superthunderstingcar!" Peter… Read the rest of the article: Hilarious Supermarionation puppet parody

On its 50th anniversary, Todd Rundgren's pioneering 1972 Something/Anything album is reissued as part of 2022's Record Store Day Black Friday events. Each of the three LPs is pressed in… Read the rest of the article: Todd Rundgren's "Something/Anything" reissued

Be on the lookout for any unusual walnut-sized clumps on your Christmas tree before bringing it inside—you might have a nest of Praying Mantis eggs! If you assume this issue… Read the rest of the article: Walnut-like lump on Christmas tree brings the gift of teeming baby mantises