We’re happy that French-Canadian animator Patrick Boivin likes to play with toys. Ever wonder who’d win a Bruce Lee/Iron Man action figure smackdown? Ah,...

Steampunk artist and impresario Hieronymus Isambard von Slatt has joined the ranks of good people observing Ada Lovelace Day. See how he makes his...

Here’s a quick post pointing to Hulu’s Cosmos channel, where Carl Sagan’s entire groundbreaking PBS series may be streamed for free. Sagan’s series introduced...

Flickr user Tim Bean created a photographic tour of Boston locations mentioned in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1962-2008). Bean’s photos...

Herbert Pfostl is an artist we’d like to know more about. His work combines found images and text with figural notions of animals and...

The concept of the Uncanny Valley was proposed by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, author of Buddha in the Machine (in which Mori asserts that...

"Once I was an alchemist named Alec, of Holland"

More hilobrow cover art! Check out the entire series. *** Mad props to Jonathan Lethem for this one. And for reminding us of the...