“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” - Carl Sagan [ Etsy (sold out) via boingboing ] More

This 100% steel Spaceboy garbage can by Wesco is the only trashcan I ever want to own, that is, until trashcans are constructed from actual, functional rockets. $250 when it arrives in the US later this year. [ Wesco ] More

You need to look at these photos. The 167 entries in this week’s “Monotone” Shooting Challenge are of a completely humbling, professional quality. More

We’re no strangers to the work of Lego master Nathan Sawaya , but his latest creation achieved the impossible: making a Blackberry exciting. It incorporates a working flat screen TV for comfortably displaying video. Clearly he took some artistic liberties. More

As part of a graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design, students built miniature cities out of common household objects—including this power strip . They’re just missing mini-people. [ Spoon Tamago via Crib Candy via Boing Boing ] More

That’s not the sun. But for a brief period, in a small Arctic town in Canada, in the dead of winter, it was the next-best thing. More

With a single candle , your photos were stupendous. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge , we’re tying a different hand behind your back: color. More

A Chinese artist named PixieTea both recorded this song and shot the accompanying video almost entirely on an iPhone 3GS . The surprise? It’s actually pretty decent! See for yourself: More

If they ever make a 21st century Mary Poppins sequel—and say, Tim Burton directs it—I would like to see her umbrella replaced with this dimmer lamp. Mary could get swept away, up the electrical fuse. Forever. [ Yanko Design ] More

Theoretically, this RGB lamp concept could mix 16 million color variations, but really, we’d be happy enough with seven in this shot. [ macmeier and dailytonic via mocoloco ]