Artist Kumi Yamashita’s impressive work combines mechanics, light & brilliance:

Today, on Hanttula.com’s “IT CAME FROM eBAY…” is a rather intriguing 1930’s police fingerprinting kit. What would one do with this? I have no idea. Still, pretty cool…

OK Go’s highly successful video for “This Too Shall Pass” was a lot of people’s first introduction to the mechanical-stylings of Rube Goldberg, but people have been building contraptions that mimic his mind-boggling style for some time. Evidence: this Breakfast-making Machine…

The band OK Go has the unenviable task of having to constantly outperform themselves in terms of their music videos (evidence: their video for Here I Go Again). In their new video for “This Too Shall Pass,” they have have succeeded again:

Take special note of the astounding levels of detail here. They could have easily gotten away with much less. But, even in the world of Rube Goldberg-inspired contraptions, this video is massively impressive.

Unhappy Hipsters provides new (and seemingly insightful) captions to the coolly modern home/homeowner photos in magazines like Dwell*.

*Dwell, just for the record, is probably the best home design magazine around.

Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой translates to “I’m very glad because I’m finally back home.”

That translation offers no explanation for this amazing video…

A few selections from FoodBeast.com:

The Bacon Beer Mug

The Bacon Guy Lombardi Trophy

The Bacon Gingerbread House

The Bacon Cheese Turtleburger

“For English-speaking people who want to talk to and be understood by jazz musicians, hipsters, beatniks, juvenile delinquents and the criminal fringe.”

How to Speak Hip with your instructor Geets Romo.

I love these beautiful cover designs from Jim Tierney: