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Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
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Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
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Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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The Art of Cocktail Conversation

58 questions for better conversations at your next party.

By Cool Material
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Take One Last Look at the (Many) Plastic Bags of New York

In case you weren't aware, there's a statewide plastic bag ban coming into effect on March 1st in New York. It's been almost four decades since the ubiquitous, carry groceries and then recycle for animal poop bags changed the retail landscape forever, but as Governor Cuomo puts it, “For far…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Alessandro Paglia ‘Smashed’ Iconic Movie Cars

In case you haven't heard of Alessandro Paglia, he's a Milan-based artist and designer educated in the world of product design that made his bones creating one-off, realistic drawings of iconic cars getting smashed to pieces from a top-down perspective. Iconic taxis from films. Dodge Chargers emblazoned with Americana. Herbie…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Amalgam Scale Model Cars Are as Detailed as the Real Thing

Whether it was LEGO, Technic, Erector or the plastic kits for cars or planes, most of you reading this grew up building models of some kind. When it comes to scale model cars, there's Amalgam and everyone else. Bristol, England-based Amalgam has been making the scale model equivalent of Swiss…

By Cooper Fleishman
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‘Printing Money’ Visualizes How Fast You Earn a Dollar

Neal Agarwal is a Computer Science geek and data visualization specialist that has never known a statistic he couldn't make interesting. His latest project is called "Printing Money," and it's a scrolling visualization of the amount of time it takes to generate dolla, dolla bills based on specific wage amounts.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Invader Rubik’s Cube Mona Lisa

There's no denying the fact that Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is one of the most iconic paintings of all time. There's also no denying the fact that the Rubik's Cube is one of the most iconic puzzle toys of all time. French street artist Invader decided to combine the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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