Black & Decker Alligator Lopper

One-upping a chainsaw, Black & Decker's Alligator Lopper takes a design cue from nature and adds a steel jaw to the tool. If you've ever used a regular chainsaw, you know how satisfyingly fun it is to slice through logs as if they were made of butter. We can only imagine the possibilities the scissors action brings to this puppy. With a 4.5 Amp motor …

Mapplethorpe: Polaroids

I happened upon this new book of Robert Mapplethorpe's early Polaroids around the same time I read Ryan McGinley's recent interview of Jack Walls (Mapplethorpe's long-term boyfriend). Both the collection of black-and-white photographs and the interview are as great for their content as they are for insights into an era not usually glimpsed elsewhere. McGinley's involvement is like the exclamation mark highlighting how relevant Mapplethorpe's …

Top Five Cool Hunting Videos of 2007

At the close of our second year producing videos, we’re a little boggled by all the incredible places and people we covered. We traveled to Seoul, South Korea for an international b-boy tournament, visited the “Nose” of Chanel at their Parisian perfume labs, interviewed Juana Molina in Argentina and went to Portland, OR twice, shooting episodes that include Audiodregs, Esque and Nau there. The year …