My favorite witch, Pam Grossman, editor of the phantastic art and occult blog, Phantasmaphile, and author of What is a Witch, has recently released WitchEmoji, a new messaging sticker pack… Read the rest of the article: Bell, book, and emoji, bewitching emoticons for your phone

Is there a visual equivalent to the audio tingles people report in ASMR? Because I get a special kinda o' feeling deep down inside whenever I watch videos like woodworker… Read the rest of the article: The strange appeal of Fibonacci spiral shaving

I get a huge kick out of the videos of the always-entertaining nerd whisperer Jenny Nicholson. If you haven't seen her channel, check it out and watch as she sits… Read the rest of the article: Jenny Nicholson's "Top 10 Reasons I Won't Do ASMR" ASMR

It's no secret that Boing Boing (along with over 4 million other netizens) loves the Primitive Technology channel on YouTube. We've covered this channel numerous times (about a guy making… Read the rest of the article: Primitive Technology: Turn on the closed captions!

I first discovered David Neat’s work via his website where he delves deeply into all sorts of fascinating interests, from furniture design to natural history to art. Mainly what drew… Read the rest of the article: A master of miniature model-making shares his hard-earned secrets

My friend, the horror writer, Fortean investigator, and educator, Michael Hughes, has been circulating details for a series of occult rituals being planned to cast a "spell to bind Donald… Read the rest of the article: A worldwide occult ritual for binding Donald Trump

For its first five years, Make: magazine ran a column called "MakeShift," edited by Lee D. Zlotoff, creator of the TV show MacGyver. The idea was to present Make: readers… Read the rest of the article: The MakeShift Challenge (or what would MacGyver do?)

Last year, I had the pleasure of exploring “the Frozen City” of Felstad, aka Frostgrave, the ridiculously fun, retro-reminiscent fantasy miniatures game from Osprey. Designer Joseph McCullogh and Osprey have… Read the rest of the article: Frostgrave, the popular fantasy skirmish game, gets a devilishly-good supplement

Yesterday saw the release of Canadian artist, graphic novelist, and scratch DJ Kid Koala's latest record, his fifth, Music to Draw To: Satellite. An ambient concept record, Music to Draw… Read the rest of the article: Kid Koala's "Collapser" featuring Emilíana Torrini and chemical puppeteer Karina Bleau

Adam Savage visited Weta Workshop in New Zealand last year and has posted videos of him touring various studios within the well-known movie effects and prop studio. In this video,… Read the rest of the article: Adam Savage and Peter Jackson nerd out over a CIA disguise kit

Comic artist R. Sikoryak, known for his Masterpiece Comics and his graphic novel version of the iTunes user agreement, is now creating faux comic book covers using tweets and speech… Read the rest of the article: Artist turns Trump quotes into comic book covers

When I was 15 years old, I decided that I wanted to try marijuana. It took me a while, but I eventually scored some from a high schooler and went… Read the rest of the article: New book of seminal essays and ideas from the iconic Whole Earth Catalog

Of all of the accolades that Bowie received after his death last January 10th, there was precious little said about his pioneering work on the Internet and the burgeoning World… Read the rest of the article: David Bowie, circa 1999, on the "exhilarating and terrifying" future of the Internet

Last year, a few days after David Bowie died, I posted the following reminiscence/remembrance to my Facebook page. On the anniversary of his death, I thought I might share it… Read the rest of the article: The night I began loving the alien

It is perhaps very telling that all of the review blurbs on the back cover of Andy Partridge and Todd Bernhardt's Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC are written… Read the rest of the article: Inside XTC's "Complicated Game"

I posted this on Make: yesterday, but thought it was too good not to share here. A gamer named David Henning is in a gaming group and they exchanged gifts… Read the rest of the article: Gamer gifts ultimate homemade Dungeon Master screen

Japanese manga artist Junko Mizuno is known for her dizzying mix of everything from Japanese cute culture to erotic and pin-up art to religious and fairy tale imagery. In TRIAD,… Read the rest of the article: Japanese pop artist Junko Mizuno goes pop-up in this gorgeous piece of book art

Petra Haden is a talented violinist and singer who has performed with everyone from The Decemberists to Victoria Williams to Sunn O))). On her YouTube channel, she also posts really… Read the rest of the article: Petra Hadens' stunning a capella cover of the Blade Runner theme

Anyone who’s waded any distance into the murky waters of legend surrounding British occultist Aleister Crowley has likely heard the stories about his involvement with British intelligence in WWII. He… Read the rest of the article: Aleister Crowley and Adolf Hitler wage occult war in Doug Rushkoff’s latest

RAWIllumination.net announced yesterday that a manuscript by Robert Anton Wilson has been found and will be published by RVP Publishers in the first half of 2017. The manuscript appears to… Read the rest of the article: Long lost Robert Anton Wilson book, Starseed Signals, to be published