Las Vegas Neon Museum

Resurrecting the iconic lights of Sin City

By Corey Lewis A wide lens on Las Vegas today shows a city that, while taken over in recent decades by a sterile, mega-mall homogeny along its new main drag, is still no stranger to design, studded with architectural monuments from Rafael Viñoly and Daniel Libeskind (and a tombstone by Lord Norman Foster in the form of the Harmon Hotel). Head south on the Strip …

Virtual Reality

Haroshi returns with playfully macabre skateboard sculptures

Arranged horizontally or in a dizzying cubistic patchwork, Haroshi‘s laminated skateboard sculptures have rightfully earned the self-taught artist plenty of hype across both the art and skate communities. His latest exhibition, “Virtual Reality,” magnifies his relentless penchant for cross-pollinating passions with a new crop of colorful works which fully reveal his distinct hybrid aesthetic. Known for shaping skate-inspired objects out of colorful used decks, Tokyo-based …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Pins and Needles

Find your way to LA's most interesting pinball arcade in our latest video

In a large warehouse in Los Angeles, behind a massive rolling metal door, there is a room full of awesome pinball machines. A labor of love, Pins and Needles is a public arcade filled with privately owned pinball machines made available for everyone to enjoy by founder Molly Atkinson. Curated by its energetic and tremendously charming founder, each machine has a unique and enchanting personality. …