A Cydia hack called Unfold will allow your iPhone’s lock screen to do this.

Photographer Dana Neibert has invented this laptop plate to assist photographers shooting tethered in their daily work. The DigiPlate is a 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum plate that can hold a laptop up to 17″ and offer many ways for the computer to be secured in place. The cheese-plate design allows for the base to be repositioned in up to 189 different ways and also offers a unique way of keep cables organized and snag-free. The DigiPlate is compatible with already-existing mounting hardware which is great because you don’t need to spend a whole lot just to get a better way to mount your laptop on set.

Right now, the DigiPlate has 27 days to go to reach a goal of $20,000. Early Kickstarter backers will receive the DigiPlate at a discount so be sure to pledge ASAP!

Check out the demo videos of the DigiPlate after the images below.

I just read about the Brimfield Antique Show at The Reason Blog. It sounds like an amazing place to scour for some vintage goods. The show is put on 3 times a year and the first for the year has come and gone, but the next one is July 10-15th! It’s only a couple of hours out of the city, maybe I’ll be able to make a stop in next time!

You saw video #1 and #2 already so check out the 3rd video above from Flavorpill on famous actors and their big screen debuts.

Word is that this works, and it works fabulously. Now you can have Sriracha lightly sprayed over everything!

I really like this set of images taken by Saskia Wilson for Fashion Gone Rogue. That’s all.

Dance choreographer Thomas Freundlich is pushing the limits of modern dance with this piece entitled Human Interface in which he pairs two human dancers with two industrial robot arms. And then it gets weird.

I was reading this post over at Vintage Children’s Books My Kids Love and came across something that I’ve never heard discussed about Calvin and Hobbes and its author Bill Watterson.

It’s well-known that Bill Watterson didn’t like the idea of licensing his beloved comic book characters from Calvin and Hobbes out for merchandising sales. Over the years this meant that little official Calvin and Hobbes merchandise exists except for some stamps, 2 rare 16-month calendars from ’88-’89 and ’89-’90 (see artwork here), and the rare textbook you see in the images in this post.

The textbook was not written by Bill Watterson but instead he licensed his characters to Linda Holmen and Mary Santella-Johnson so that they could base each lesson in the textbook around his comic strip. The textbook is extremely rare and is known in book collecting circles as one title that carries with it a very high price. Copies available can range between $1250 to $34,000 (or higher!).

This blog has some photos of people who own the textbook if you want to get a better look.

If you are in NYC and can make it to the Chelsea Galleries district, I highly recommend going into Pace Prints Gallery on 26th Street to see Keith Haring: The Blueprint Drawings (4th Floor) and Shepard Fairey: Harmony & Discord (3rd Floor). The exhibitions are only up until the first week of June and are certainly worth checking out.

Be sure to take a take-away card on your way out from the Shepard Fairey exhibit. It’s printed like a small poster and it’s beautiful!