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To understand why my life changed from boxes, you’ll need to know the following: The 49 Boxes is a social, story-driven experience where audiences interact with incredible artifacts to solve mysteries that have been kept secret for more...
Do you know what I like? You guessed it — old stuff! And the older it is, the happier I am. If it smells of mothballs, I’m the happiest yet! Take a gander at that ancient Shackman postcard....
I’m not saying that I’ve ever been truly cool, but I can say with great certainty that, right now, I am not uncool. This beautiful state of being doesn’t just happen overnight. For those of us not born...
The LUCY is a drawing tool I wish I had in art school. The device has been around for 500 years and though it uses no electricity, it’s able to project images from your environment onto your drawing pad. The...
A few weeks ago my good friend John Park created a video demonstration of how to hack the famous Happy Chewbacca mask to trigger your very own audio files. And when my sister Christina told me she was building a Chewbacca-Pinata costume for...
If you don’t know who Handsome Jack is, let me get you up to speed. He is perhaps the most famous male model in the world – and has made the time to be a world class magician. ...
I have a thing for beautiful wooden boxes, and I absolutely lose my mind when they perform magical feats. My friend Les Cookson recently sent me a prototype of a Camera Obscura he’s been working on and just looking at...
Everyone has a list of things they’d bring with them when stranded on a desert island. On the top of my list is Los Angeles artist Patrick Morgan. He brings the fun wherever he goes, and if you’re lucky...
There’s no going back for the rust belt, but there is wonder—and inspiration—in metaphor When you live in or near Detroit, Michigan, there is a magnetic pull towards a job in the automotive industry. For me it just...
Check out the amazing spare-time artwork of Aude Lising See Michael, a passionate collector of artifacts and designer of unique puzzles, at Boing Boing’s three-day extravaganza, the Weekend of Wonder, running Sept. 18-20. A weekend of workshops, tech demons...