Archive: March 9, 2009

This, my friends, is the best McDonald’s commercial to come around in a very long time. I can’t get that jingle out of my head!

obama-cereal-portrait

Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev created this sugar-cereal portrait of Barack Obama to comment on the iconization and consumerization of the President of the United States. There’s been a lot of products being made lately to commemorate the election of the nation’s first black President, and while some seem worthy to be made and [...]

What is this? It’s a scarf, not a tie. This looks so complicated that you’re probably better just sticking to the pull-through-the-loop method. Geez.

jenga-pistol

Matthias Wandel is back at it with his wooden inventions, this time unveiling a nifty device he calls the Jenga Pistol. The Jenga Pistol can shoot Jenga blocks out from the Jenga tower so quickly that the layer of blocks on top fall down and do not cause the tower to fall. It’s swift and [...]

That’s right. WHATEVAAAAAAAA. See here if you don’t get it.

fast-boy-cycles-wooden-handlebars-2

Fast Boy Cycles is the company owned by Ezra Caldwell that builds custom bicycles straight out of their home base in New York City. On some of their bikes, Ezra uses beautiful wooden handlebars instead of the traditional steel or aluminum handlebars found on most bicycles nowadays. The company’s Flickr photostream has a lot more [...]