Today is David Bowie's birthday (born Jan 8, 1947, died Jan 10, 2016). Here's a great example of our favorite leper messiah's sense of humor as he impersonates a number… Read the rest of the article: Happy Bowiemas! Celebrate by listening to Bowie yucking it up impersonating other singers
I love how watching one YouTube video you happen upon can scoop up a whole genre of videos you didn't even know existed. Witness the match chain reaction genre. I… Read the rest of the article: The strange pyromaniacal niche of wooden match chain reaction videos
Russian doll artist and photographer Lara Vychuzhanina takes Barbie and Ken out of their Malibu dream house and imagines them "back in the US, back in the US, back in… Read the rest of the article: Barbie and Ken re-imagined as Soviet citizens living in Cold War USSR
Sam Battle of Look Mum No Computer, the mad sonic scientist who brought us the Furby Organ, has done it again. This time, he turned a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive into… Read the rest of the article: Turning a Sega MegaDrive into a cool, retro synthesizer
When I was a juvie nerd, I lived for Estes (and Centuri) model rockets. I slept with my Estes catalog (sometimes literally). I would mow lawns, rake leaves, and save… Read the rest of the article: Model rocket pioneer, Vern Estes, celebrates his 90th birthday
In 2016 an exciting mission was ended. The Rosetta spacecraft made its final maneuver. A controlled hard-landing on the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67p). Before that, Rosetta accompanied the comet for more… Read the rest of the article: Video made from 400,000 photos of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67p) taken by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft
On Black Magic Craft, Jeremy usually builds scenery for tabletop fantasy and sci-fi gaming. But, inspired by his new 3D resin printer, he decided to create something just for fun.… Read the rest of the article: Jeremy of Black Magic Craft builds a gorgeous Mandalorian diorama
Looking for a reason to finally power down that annual orgy of future high-tech landfill poisons? Here ya go. From Variety: It’s official: Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s daughter and… Read the rest of the article: Ivanka Trump to provide excuse to boycott CES
In the spring of this year, I started a weekly tips newsletter, Gareth's Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales. I had released a book of tips in 2018, called Tips and… Read the rest of the article: My top ten maker tips for 2019
According to the nerd media website, Bleeding Cool, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's crazed, over-the-top, post-modern sci-fi satire, the Illuminatus! trilogy is slated to become a TV series. No… Read the rest of the article: Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series
Looking for gifts for tabletop gamers? Here are some of my suggestions, based on games I've enjoyed this year… and games I would love to see under my Tannenbaum. What… Read the rest of the article: Tabletop gamer's gift guide for 2019
Oh tidings of madness and woe. Gather 'round the Necronomicon, little cultists, and let's all sing these beloved holiday odes to Elder Gods. All the classics are here: "I Saw… Read the rest of the article: 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth' and other Cthulhuian Yuletide classics
Truth be told, I'm not the biggest Star Wars nerd on my home world. I've seen all of the films and played the Star Wars: X-Wing miniatures game. That's it.… Read the rest of the article: What's the deal with Mandalorians?
Recently, I've found myself playing more games from small, independent game companies and those sold directly from the designers. Here are a few of these offerings currently on my radar,… Read the rest of the article: What's new in tabletop gaming (Indie edition)
One of my favorite new gaming miniature painting channels is Emil Nyström's Age of Squidmar. In just six months of making videos, Emil has already established himself as a content… Read the rest of the article: YouTuber hires people on Fiverr to paint his minis
Colin Miller spent four years photographing the apartments of New York's bohemian Mecca the Chelsea Hotel. The fruits of his labor have been collected in a new book, Hotel Chelsea:… Read the rest of the article: Photographer documents the beautiful, eccentric apartments of New York's historic Chelsea Hotel
In this video, basically an ad for the upcoming Sony 360 Reality Audio, brilliant record producer and criminally underappreciated bassist, Tony Visconti, listens to the original 1969 mono demo, the… Read the rest of the article: Legendary music producer Tony Visconti breaks down Bowie's iconic "Space Oddity"
The meme machinery has been working overtime riffing on the Obstructor-in-Chief's latest cartoonish attempt to save himself, his hastily Sharpie'd "I want nothing" memo. First it was the above Ramones-like… Read the rest of the article: Musicians turn Drumpf's Fisher-Price presidential memo into "Morrissey" and "Ramones" tunes
Here is a collection of horrifying games to keep you entertained this Fall. Call of Cthulhu Starter Set Chaosium, Inc., $21.40 When I got the latest Call of Cthulhu Starter… Read the rest of the article: What's new in tabletop gaming (Halloween edition)
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, the music collective known for vintage send-ups of popular songs, has done this wonderful cover of the Pinky and the Brain theme song. It had already… Read the rest of the article: Pinky and the Brain theme song done by Postmodern Jukebox
