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Mondo will sell more of Ken Taylor’s posters from his recent gallery show today. The info for each is listed below. These go up today (Thursday, June 26th) at a random time. Visit Mondotees.com.

Catwoman

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 275, $60:

Catwoman (Variant)

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 125, $80:

Frankenstein

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 375, $50:

Frankenstein (Variant)

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 175, $75:

With the announcement of 10242 Mini Cooper, we missed covering LEGO Idea’s announcement of their next set: 21110 Research Institute, based off of Ellen Kooijman’s Female Minifigure set.

LEGO sent Ellen an advance copy of the set, which she has revealed on her blog. She takes us step by step through the box art, the construction, and includes observations about her profession and the stories the vignettes tell.

I wanted to highlight, too, this fantastic telescope design for the astronomer. I am so excited for this set to come out!

There doesn’t seem to be word yet on pricing or when it will be available, though it appears to be on target for an August release.

Minneapolis’ Aesthetic Apparatus put a few prints up for sale today. These are screenprinted, limited, and cost $20-$25 each. Visit AestheticApparatus.com.

My mom said that if this post gets 10,000 notes she will attempt to look interested while I explain to her what tumblr is

Here’s a fiendishly clever little concept from Angus MacLane, the guy that made character building more accessible by dreaming up CubeDudes. And like CubeDudes, I suspect this pattern is destined to be widely imitated – with or without the couches. Each vignette features a brick-built superhero or screen character kicking back after a long day’s superheroing (…or in some cases, chestbursting).

 
 
 

Angus hopes to continue the series over the coming months, with even more examples of superhuman relaxation. And if Destro’s demeanor is any indication, I suspect the villains will turn out to be having a worse day than the heroes!

caseymalone:

This made me indescribably happy. 

They say that you should be careful what you wish for, but I get so jealous of Casey’s haters. Not just that he has so many, but that he inspires such passion in them. Hatred of Casey Malone is a doorway through which beautiful things enter this universe.

New York City is a terrible place to summer. Whereas some water-bound towns have cool breezes rolling in off the ocean all day, we can better rely on the hot exhale of garbage trucks. Offices are set to roughly the same temperature as a polar ice cap, but subway platforms are so unfathomably sweltering that on my first day in NYC 14 years ago, I — adorably, like the wee baby New Yorker I was — uttered the words, “Is this even legal?” It’s a rare day that you don’t walk down the sidewalk and have a window a/c unit drip you-don’t-want-to-know run-off on your head. Flip-flops may cool your feet outside, but you may never recover from seeing the new color of your toes at the end of a day, and it always seems like everyone but me has Summer Fridays. The city tries, it really does, to make things more livable: the 14 beaches are free, there are dozens and dozens of free public pools, something like a zillion sprinkler parks, and you know all those endless photos you see of children frolicking in spraying fire hydrants? Hardly a symbol urban decay, it’s actually legal and encouraged. But the fact is that from July 4th on (and possibly earlier this year), anyone that has the means to be elsewhere is, and the rest of us plebes schvitz it out on the pavement.

And this summer, we’re going to do it grandly. We are going to embrace the heat. We are going to pretend we are someplace tropical and glamorous. Our summer house awaits… uh, in the blender.

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Mondo will release the second round of posters from Ken Taylor’s gallery show today. The info for each is listed below. These go up today (Thursday, June 19th) at a random time. Visit Mondotees.com.

Little Shop of Horrors

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 350, $50:

Little Shop of Horrors (Variant)

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 175, $75:

Children of Men

21.5″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 375, $50:

Children of Men (Variant)

21.5″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 200, $75:

Das Boot

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 350, $50:

Das Boot (Variant) 

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 175, $75:

Julius von Brunk (Baron von Brunk) is such a massive console gaming fan, he decided that the last thing he should see at night should be the Spiritual Stones from Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. So he built this working lamp containing a transparent mosaic of each stone, all harmoniously capped off by a Triforce…

Bird simulator - video here.

I’m ready for Oculus Rift.

Two 20-year-old men were arrested this week in Kōbe, Japan, on charges that they stole their teenage friend’s Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Kōbe Shinbun NEXT reports, via Anime News Network, that the men showed up at the home of their 15-year-old pal on Feb. 18, only to discover he wasn’t there. So, naturally, being friends and all, […]

Mondo will sell new posters for Robocop by Tom Whalen and Kevin Tong today, plus the first round of posters from Ken Taylor’s gallery show. The info for each is listed below. These go up today (Thursday, June 12th) at a random time. Visit Mondotees.com.

Robocop by Tom Whalen

12″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 300, $45:

Robocop by Kevin Tong

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 300, $45:

Robocop by Kevin Tong (Variant)

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 150, $65:

Robocop by Kevin Tong (Metal Variant)

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 35, $300:

Nosferatu by Ken Taylor

15″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 375, $50:

Fight Club by Ken Taylor

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 375, $50:

Fight Club by Ken Taylor (Variant)

24″ x 36″ Screenprint, Edition of 175, $75:

Being the only builder gutsy enough ever to attempt a minifig scaled version of Howl’s moving castle, it’s comes as no surprise to discover that Imagine Rigney was behind this mind-bending recreation of the fall of Cloud Cuckoo Land from The LEGO Movie…

But the diorama just wouldn’t be complete without our heros escaping in the Bat Submarine. So he build that too, naturally. Awesome!

This makes me really wish LEGO would put out more official sets based on that particular region of the LEGO Movie universe. However, if anyone suggests the above creations be submitted as projects to the Lego Ideas site, be warned: I will reach through the screen and slap you!

Sometimes your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man can get a bit too friendly. Case in point: the sculpture of the wall-crawler by Eunsuk Yoo that was (ahem) erected last year at the Lotte Shopping Center in Busan, South Korea. As you can see from the decidedly not-safe-for-work photos below, courtesy of Kotaku, Peter Parker’s spider-sense isn’t the […]

I can be a bit of a commitment-phobe—at least when it comes to tattoos. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a crotchety cook, up in arms about all the kids these days gettin’ tatted—on the contrary, I do love a good tattoo. It’s just that, personally, I know I’m way too indecisive to make the leap to full-on ink. This is why I’ve fallen so madly in love with Tattly, the Brooklyn-based temporary tattoo company started by Tina Roth Eisenberg. With a collection of hundreds of artist-designed tattoos to choose from, Tattly’s temporary philosophy opens the doors for self expression and day-by-day experimentation. This week, we had the pleasure of dropping into the Tattly HQ—a bustling, friendly studio space in DUMBO. Filled with wonderful people, laughter and (of course) tons of tattoos, the Tattly office is exactly what you’d expect from such a fabulous company. Check out some of the highlights of our visit above or see all the stills and outtakes after the jump! —Max

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That shirt right there? Today is my one year anniversary of owning it. Happy Anniversary Han’s Shirt from Fast Five!

Here’s me and hannanimal posing with the shirt. This is maybe the happiest I’ve ever been. Happy Hannah Owns Han’s Shirt Anniversary. 

Chicago’s Ryan Duggan has been cranking out these ultra-limited art prints pretty regularly lately. They’re mid-sized (16″ x 20″ and 18″ x 24″) screenprints, have editions of 15, and cost $40 each. Visit his shop.

The Chicago duo Landland just put another couple of stunning posters up for sale. The Mountain Goats poster is an 18″ x 24″ screenprint, has an artist edition of 55, and costs $30. The Baths tour poster is an 18″ x 24″ screenprint, has an edition of 230 (much less online), and costs $25. Oh, and they’re selling some one-of-a-kind test prints for $75 each. All of this in their shop.

Click the Mountain Goats poster to see it larger:

 

The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle asked a seemingly unsympathetic Seventh Circuit on Thursday to overturn a lower-court ruling that the elements from the first 50 Sherlock Holmes stories have lapsed into the public domain in the United States. According to Law 360, estate attorney Benjamin Allison insisted that U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo erred […]

Tom Whalen will sell copies of his new Primus poster today. It’s an 18″ x 24″ screenprint for $40. The variant will cost $50. These go up today (Wednesday, May 21st) at a random time. Visit his shop.

At the same time, Tom will also sell copies of his Arctic Monkeys diptychs. If you’ve been waiting for those stateside, now is your chance. Same spot, his shop.

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Behold the epic glory of the Settlers of Catan Nacho Bar.

It’s graduation season once again! In case you are still in need of life-advice, here is the entire collection of my award winning (not really) commencement speeches — the first is from my old high school, Lexington, MA, in 2009, and the second is from my alma mater, Hampshire College, in 2012. If you watch both, along with your years and years of studying stuff, you should have the building-blocks of leading a happy, fulfilled life:

Microscale building is most commonly associated with the giant collaborative ‘Micropolis’ city displays at events like Brickworld, where the focus is on gleaming modern architecture. So it’s refreshing to see Flickr member HOEFOL going seriously old school with microscale models of structures from the industrial revolution.

Which of course means factories, mills and a lot of smoke stacks:

 

But if you weren’t fortunate enough to live in the big city with all those rats and consumption, you might have lived in a farmhouse like one of these (with just the rats):

 

Not exactly contemporaneous with the others, but here’s a bonus scene entitled “Stranded”. Yup, not even HOEFOL’s cute little canal barge is gonna be able to get you out of this situation!

So much clever part usage in these scenes. I was particularly impressed by the inclusion of window sills, the recessing of the doorways, and use of flowers for the surf effect in that last creation.

Look, I have no business giving dating advice. Or marital advice. I didn’t, like, scope the scene or learn the rules or think big thoughts about what kind of person would be the right person for me when I walked into a bar 11 years ago and met this guy for a drink. Nevertheless, if you were to try isolate a single trait essential in a life partnership, I think you should look for a person who is pro-whim — that is, encourages you to have whims and pursue them, for better or for worse. Does that sound too abstract? Okay, fine; let me propose instead the Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Bar Test, which should be enlisted as follows. 1. Find a potential mate. 2. Say, “Do I need to good reason to make strawberry-rhubarb pie bars?” 3. If they answer, as mine did on Monday, “Nope. I think they’re always welcome,” you’re probably on the right track. If nothing else, your weekend is about to get tastier.

I’d been daydreaming about a late spring riff on an apple-crisp-in-the-pan bars since I got the One Bowl Baking book last fall. I’m not sure I’ve ever met a pie-like cookie bar I didn’t like, but still, these made me nervous because they seemed so (ewww) wholesome. There are more whole grains than white flour, less sugar and less butter than any other cookie bar I’ve ever made. How could this be good? Silly Deb, I should have just trusted the author implicitly. Yvonne Ruperti is a former Cook’s Illustrated writer, America’s Test Kitchen on-air host and bakery owner, so you could say she knows a few things about baking.

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Charlottesville’s Telegraph Gallery is currently hosting a small, awesome Prince tribute show. The artists involved are Michael DeForge, Sam McKenzie, Kali Ciesemier, Ming Doyle, and Natali Martinez. The prints are all 18″ x 24″ screenprints, have editions of 70, and cost $36 each. Visit TelegraphGallery.com.

The PROMETHEUS poster for sale today is canceled. After we revealed the image yesterday, we were made aware that parts of that design resembled those of another image. We did not know that this was the case and now that we do, we’re pulling the poster.

We’re not down with this type of thing and truly apologize to everyone out there and thank you for letting us know that this happened. You guys are awesome and we really appreciate the heads up and support.

Ryan Duggan has another couple of entries in his “Poster of the Week” series up for sale. They’re 14″ x 18″ and 18″ x 24″ screenprints, have editions of 15, and cost $40 each. He’s also made greeting cards out of his poster misprints, and you can get a pack of 10 for only $20. Awesomeness all around. Visit his shop.