Tag: New York
Monopoly Game Properties IRL: A Photo Collection For Board Game Lovers
With all the smartphone games available, I don't hear about people playing board games much anymore. Only two stick out in my mind as being able to stand the test of time. Those are Monopoly and Scrabble. When I was a kid, I used to like playing with the Monopoly game itself. The red hotels, green h ...
The Art Of The Brick: Nathan Sawaya Dazzles Us With LEGO Art Magic
Ever puzzle over the smile of a LEGO Mona Lisa? Now you can. Only, if you ogle at the exceptional LEGO reproduction for too long, the famous smirk begins to feel a tad more pixelated. If you haven't visited The Art of the Brick exhibit at the Discovery Museum in Times Square, New York City, I highly ...
How To: Boost The Colors In Your Facebook Photos & Make Them Pop
A Facebook page is a place for us to paint our fairy tales. The feed is a personally constructed cyber-memory that runs parallel to the fading images that we have in our heads. We all have the opportunity to build a social media-housed, photo-enhanced personal narrative that we share with the world, ...
Create Pizza Design With App & It Will Be Delivered Like Your Design
If you're artsy and love pizza, you've probably created your own pizza at some point and put a design on the top that you made yourself with the different ingredients. It's a classic Saturday afternoon kid project, and I've done it myself at least a dozen times. Wouldn't it be great if you could pai ...
The World’s Longest Receipt (Over 3,000 Items!)
This is one of those stories that will warm your heart. The wonderful people at Store Buyout heard that Hercules, the owner of a little grocery store in New York called Hercules Fancy Grocery, was about to lose his lease and go out of business. The only way he would be able to keep his store was if ...
![The Ultimate Nerd Guide To New York City [Map]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Nerd-Map-Over-New-York-1-optimized.png "The Ultimate Nerd Guide To New York City [Map]")
The Ultimate Nerd Guide To New York City [Map]
Being a geek in New York City just got a whole lot more fun! With Comic Con on its doorstep, and with an armada of geeks invading the city for a bit of gaming and comic culture, what could be more important than to show off New York City in the very best possible way? I am sure most people who haven ...
Rat Convention: Yes, There Really Is One
There are a lot of different, weird, odd and crazy conventions out there for sure. There are some that I would never have thought existed until someone told me about them. Well, luckily I am not visiting too many of them since I'd rather sit here and write articles for you guys. Yes, imagine that! B ...
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United States: 50 State Stereotypes [Humor]
This is hilarious to me because if you live in the United States, you know there are stereotypes that accompany each state. I'm not a fan of stereotypes when they refer to individual people because they can be hurtful and damaging, but I'm all over it when it refers to a whole State because it's jus ...
Name The Flick: 91 Cult Movies On A New York Map
I think I have mentioned this before, but New York is one of the most popular sets for movies in the history of Hollywood, or at least it seems that way. Not too long ago I wrote an article about the superhero jam packed districts of New York, including their real addresses. 9 superheroes in close p ...
How The World Began: Illustrated In Cookie Dough
These little illustrations were printed in the New York Times a few days ago, and they are so precious and sweet, I just had to share them with you here. I don't know if it's because most of us love sugar cookies with sprinkles, or just because of how creative it is, but this is sure to bring a smi ...
Creative Sculptures Made Out Of Human Beings
We are very inspired by creative artistry, and we've featured a lot of different types of sculptures on Bit Rebels. However, I think this could be the first time we've ever written about sculptures made out of... well... human beings.
The closest I've seen to this is this typography installation ...
The New Pop Tarts World Features Pop Tart Sushi!
Yesterday I wrote an article about some very creative, mouth-watering pop tarts on a stick. After that article published, one of my Twitter friends sent me another crazy cool pop tart concoction that is definitely worth sharing with you.
This is "Pop Tart Sushi." It is made from three flavors o ...
Add Some Geek To The World – Repair Buildings With Lego!
We all know that over time, the walls on old buildings and monuments begins to age and crumble. Sometimes those cracks and crumbles add personality to structures, but other times, they make the buildings look old and sad.
Jan Vormann, a 26-year-old artist from Germany, has devoted the past three ...
Melting Cheese Head Art – Food Design Inspiration
Cheese heads are fun, aren't they? They are usually created in the spirit of comedy and make people laugh. I think my favorite cheese head to date is probably the Steve Jobs head.
The cheese heads I'm sharing with you today are supposed to be sophisticated art, so I will try not to joke around ...
A Flagship Lego Store Opens At Rockefeller Center!
Today is the big day! I'm so excited that I will be in NYC again this weekend so I will get to see this store firsthand! I've never seen a store before that is completely dedicated to Lego.
The new flagship Lego store opens today at Rockefeller Center. The official grand opening will be today ...