Seletti Wears Toiletpaper

The Mantua-based design firm collaborates with the off-beat magazine for a line of dinnerware

Toiletpaper is one of the best examples of how a niche magazine done right can become a mass phenomenon. This photography-only publication was born in 2010 from a collaboration between artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. The content is always over-the-top, cheeky, kitsch and even disturbing, and images are on point to shock and create an original point of view. Despite the cultural and …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Prison farming, the drunk history of Dolly Parton, MLK's 50th anniversary and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Mind Control Laptops, mobile phones, tablets, cameras and more can all be hooked up to the internet, and now researchers at the University of Washington have connected their own brains to the network. The experiment, titled “Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans,” allowed one researcher to control the movement of another researcher’s hand, even though the two were in separate areas on campus. By donning …

Luxi Light Meter

A must-have iPhone accessory for field photographers

After a very successful round of crowd-funding earlier this spring, the Luxi light meter—created by Extrasensory Devices—is ready for users. A small diffusion dome that fits securely over the front-facing camera, Luxi easily turns any iPhone 5 or 4/4S into a portable incident light meter. When attached and used with a light meter app like Pocket Light Meter, Luxi can also help determine the best …