75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking

Teaming up together to help celebrate 75 Years of DC Comics with DC is Taschen for the most expensive look through history that brought the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader alive. It covers over 2,000 images- covers, and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles.

$200

edison – tonka truck

edison – tonka truck from edison on Vimeo.

Carbon Fiber Airstream Duffle Bag

There was a time, when I wanted everything carbon fiber. Although it is completely impractical, I finally have found the bag.

Miracle

Miracle from Ryan Booth on Vimeo.

Dunning-Kruger Effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_kruger_effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the perverse situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. “Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.”[1]

Similar notions have been expressed–albeit less scientifically–for some time. Dunning and Kruger themselves quote Charles Darwin (“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge”)[1] and Bertrand Russell (“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”[2][3]). The Dunning-Kruger Effect is not, however, concerned narrowly with high-order cognitive skills (much less their application in the political realm during a particular era, which is what Russell was talking about.[4]) Nor is it specifically limited to the observation that ignorance of a topic is conducive to overconfident assertions about it, which is what Darwin was saying.[5] Indeed, Dunning et al. cite a study saying that 94% of college professors rank their work as “above average” (relative to their peers), to underscore that the highly intelligent and informed are hardly exempt.[2] Rather, the effect is about paradoxical defects in perception of skill, in oneself and others, regardless of the particular skill and its intellectual demands, whether it is chess, playing golf[6] or driving a car.[2]

Fresh Travler

Target carries something similar for kids but what about us grownups that just can’t get enough of their Lucky Charms?? A cup for the milk and storage for the cereal….pure design genius.

Gorillaz: Journey to Plastic Beach

My friends can be silly

Space Age Tubin’ part 2 from Alex Thipkhosithkun on Vimeo.

Thanks A.T. for the laughs.

Hobo x Koyuk Double Wing Deck Shoes

Who says they only make awesome shoes for girls?

Yes, I have well over a couple of hundred in my closet but if I’m going to be taken out on a date, my man better look good. Japan’s Hobo teamed up with Spanish footwear brand Koyuk on a summer collaboration of Koyuk’s Double Wing Deck shoes.

Greatest Insults on Film

Shabby Geeky Chic