Category
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...
We all have memories of our favorite toys. Sometimes it’s hard to point at just what made them so special. This one, though, is obviously dangerous. It could have been the smell of the moulded plastic. Perhaps it...
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...
Before the age of YouTube, you cherished the chance to see a rerun—and you had to take notes. Are you too young to remember the television series, The Wonderful World Of Disney? It ran once a week and you...
I’m not much of a chef, but I really enjoy my newest culinary purchase. It’s the Bitterman Himalayan Salt Block, and it sure is pretty. Supposedly, it doesn’t matter if it’s beef, chicken or fish — everything is...
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...
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...
Who isn’t? I’m not proud to say it, but infomercials excite me way too much. I know they’re designed to get me interested in products I just don’t need, yet they still have power over me. Infomercials are not...