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Air Jordan vs. Santa

AirJordan_Santa

In this retro Nike commercial Michael Jordan takes it to ole Saint Nicholas on the hardwood. Santa might be able to shimmy down chimneys with his Christmas magic, but the jolly dude has no chance against the greatest basketball player ever.

At the end of the game, MJ shows his sportsmanship by sharing a sweaty hug and Santa agrees to distribute sneakers at a discounted rate.


Vintage Calculators

Casio Calculator

I stumbled across the Vintage Technology website yesterday while surfing Reddit. It’s a wonderful resource if you’re into retro design. I’m loving the vintage calculators section. The Casio H1 pictured above is still sitting somewhere in a drawer in my parents house, next to this TI-33.


Car of The Future

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In the future your car will only have three wheels and will include a hydraulic lift to help you change the one front tire that steers. If you think I’m kidding then you haven’t heard of the Davis Three Wheeler or seen the video about it and other retro-futuristic car designs after the jump.


iPods and Cell Phones in 1977

In Alex Varanese’s Alt 1977 reality, the technology of today was transported and given to ourselves in 1977. Rather than being designed by the likes of Johnny Ives, they are given the faux-wood look of so many other consumer products of that era. See what cell phones and laptops would have also looked like if they existed back then after the jump.


Stop Motion Super Mario At School

My japanese is rusty, and by rusty I mean I don’t know how to speak Japanese so I’m relying on Google Translate for this one. What I gather though is that some student used post it notes and his/her free time after school for two weeks to put together this awesome stop motion video of Super Marios Bros. The sound effects were pulled from the game while the landscape used were the walls of his public school. Awesome.

YouTube link


Note Cards

Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.

It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.

Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.

Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?

Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.

One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”

One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.

How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?

It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?

While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!

Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.

This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.

Darth Vader blows some hot air.

You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.

That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.

Hey Portland! Cheat Local!

Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.

It’s the cartoon color wheel.

What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?

If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.

Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.

I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.

Let’s all have a meat machine dance party!

Shredder wants you for the foot.