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Samuel L Jackson Placeholder Text

Ever had the need to use placeholder text when designing something? Is Lorem Ipsum Dolor not doing it for you anymore? Step into the world of Samuel L Ipsum. Instead of taking random latin text to fill a space, it instead takes random text portions from characters that Samuel L Jackson has played. Will you get something from Pulp Fiction or Snakes on a Plane? Who knows. That’s part of the fun.

Try out Samuel L Ipsum here.

Video Game Model Kits 

Ty Lettau has created 3 different 8-bit plastic model kits based on Super Mario Bros. (Mario), The Legend of Zelda (Link) and Metroid (Samus). He also previously created different characters such as Futurama, X-men, the Justice League and many others that were done in the style of Megaman and Mario Bros.

You can see more of Ty Lettau’s work here.

The Vans DQM General Store in SoHo NYC

“The Vans DQM General shop is DQM‘s second brick and mortar store in collaboration with skate company Vans. Located in the heart of SoHo, the store fuses DQM’s authenticity with the timeless heritage of the Vans brand to create a shop geared towards the growing skateboarding and lifestyle community. The General store will carry select Vans and DQM footwear and apparel products for men, women and kids as well as a small capsule collection between DQM and Vans that’s only available at the new shop. Check out The Vans DQM General store starting September 15 at 93 Grand Street.”

See more photos of the new collaboration store’s interior at Hypebeast here.

This is awesome - Jesse Eisemann, who illustrates and writes for CollegeHumor and Dorkly.com, created an interactive map of New York City based on the style of Super Mario World! 

My favorite bits are the ghosts floating over old landmark places that are either graveyards or presumably haunted by their former occupants. Also, the mario bridge representation of a real bridge is pretty cool.

Oh, and that Mario at the top? He’s Hipster Mario in Jortveralls.

You can explore the interactive version here.

“To create the chart, Velo gently scraped Wikipedia’s list of Crayola colors, corrected a few hues, and added the standard 16-count School Crayon box available in 1935.

Ever industrious, Velo also calculated the average growth rate: 2.56% annually. For maximum understandability, he reformulated it as “Crayola’s Law,” which states: The number of colors doubles every 28 years! If the Law holds true, Crayola’s gonna need a bigger box, because by the year 2050, there’ll be 330 different crayons!”

Read more here.

Iron Man in the style of Tron