The Jokers

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

A series by photographer Bruce Davidson has resurfaced depicting a young gang of boys in 1959 Brooklyn. “The Jokers” personify the now-legendary look of the era, and charmingly reinforce the timelessness of a rebel youth—and stake their claim on pioneering the modern idea of it—with greaser haircuts, tattoo showboating and lots of girls.

Talstar Bottle

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

The bottle for Talstar’s insecticide may look funky but it’s form is much more considered than one might think. Designed to make measuring the appropriate amount of bug poison more efficient, the bottle uses a pressure system that allows the contents to be doled out with a squeeze.

Skittish Tree

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

Bringing dynamic visual evidence of the impact of the sounds we make, the sound-reactive projection, Skittish Tree, offers a multi-sensory experience in the storefront of JS55 on Clinton Street in New York City. While soft sounds caused the tree to sway languidly side-by-side, loud noises—like, as we see in the video, a child’s giddy screeching—shake the limbs until they fall off in the “wind”.