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Moreno Schweikle's Spring Coolers series starts with a simple observation. The office water cooler is one of the most social objects in any building. People gather around it, gossip around it, decompress around it. So why does it look like nothing?

He kept the materials and mechanics of a standard cooler exactly as they are and redesigned the form entirely. Taking cues from the neoclassical fountains of European city squares. The result is a tinted blue sculpture that circulates water through a closed loop. It looks like something you'd find in a Roman plaza. It lives in an office.

Balenciaga saw it and placed three of them in their stores worldwide. Milan. Beijing. Manhattan.
It's not for drinking from. It's for staring at.

Some artists pick a lane. It seems as if Schweikle is more interested in the objects nobody thought to look at twice. by @wurfmuseum

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17 days ago

His name is Lazaro Rodriguez. You probably know him as @oldfishinghat.

He directed Hot Wind Blows and shot Heaven To Me for Tyler, the Creator. He also runs the independent TV show The Great Desperation and makes music as Bruteman.

Somewhere along the way, he also started making lamps.

Not normal lamps. One-of-one sculptures. This one is a 6-foot-tall Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It costs $33,000.
Imagine waking up at 3:14 a.m., walking into your living room, and completely forgetting you spent $33K on a lamp. I can't think of a scarier way to remember. by @wurfmuseum

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18 days ago

Mike Majors. Harlem native. Grew up in a single parent, matriarchal home. That upbringing didn't just shape him. It became the subject.

He shoots portraits. Fashion editorial. Moments. But what it feels like is something else. The masculine living inside the feminine. The feminine living inside the masculine. The parts of a person that haven't been named yet and probably shouldn't be.

A lot of his most honest work is self portraiture. Which makes sense. You can't ask someone to go somewhere you won't go yourself.

His work is cinematic but not in the way people throw that word around. It feels like a memory. Like you were there for something you've never actually seen before.

"The universe experiencing itself through a lens." That's his line.

We just think you should be paying attention. by @wurfmuseum

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18 days ago

The Well of Death is one of India's oldest carnival spectacles.

Drivers launch cars and motorcycles around the vertical walls of a wooden cylinder, using speed alone to keep themselves from falling. As they pass, spectators reach down to shake their hands, turning the performance into something between a stunt, a tradition, and an act of trust.

Dangerous and loud and absurd.

The Maut Ka Kuan lives inside a travelling circus. Brightly colored tents. Jugglers. Food stalls. It arrives at a mela, sets up overnight, and draws crowds from villages miles away. The Well of Death is usually the main event. The one people come for. You hear the engines before you see anything. Then you climb the rim and look down.

The first one appeared in India in the 1930s, brought over from American carnival culture and never left. Some of the families running these shows today learned from their grandfathers. Mohammad Shamil Ansari, one of the most well known riders, started at 16. He said: "To ride there, you need courage and balance. If I am to die, I may even die while on the street."

The show is slowly disappearing. Smaller crowds. Fewer melas. The circus is a dying format. But the ones still running go hard. No harness. No net. Yamaha RX100s and Maruti 800s at 50mph on a wooden wall 30 feet high.

We found out about it through a Hanumankind music video. Embarrassing honestly. Something this old and wild and it took a music video to point us here.

But we need to go. by @wurfmuseum

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21 days ago

The Polaroid 20×24 is the largest instant camera ever made. Only five were built. All five still exist.

It takes two people to operate. Every photograph is a 20×24-inch instant print. There is no digital file. No negative. No backup. Every frame is the only one.

Ansel Adams used it. Andy Warhol used it. Chuck Close used it. Robert Rauschenberg used it. Now, nearly fifty years later, one of those cameras is back on the road.

The Polaroid Foundation restored it and launched the 20×24 Project. A traveling studio bringing the camera from city to city, artist to artist, documenting each stop along the way. Part documentary. Part archive. Part reminder that some machines still have more to say.

Different city. Different artist. Same giant camera.

It's easy to imagine a world where this camera ended up behind glass in a museum.

Instead, they kept making photographs with it.

Good. by @wurfmuseum

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24 days ago

The Mask actually started as a black-and-white splatter comic from Dark Horse. The early "Big Head" stories are pure dark comedy. A nobody finds a magical mask, loses every moral restraint, and goes on a hyper-violent revenge spree. The core thesis is simple and bleak: give someone absolute power, and they'll use it for the pettiest, cruelest things they can imagine.

Hollywood circles it as the next Nightmare on Elm Street. At one point, there's even a draft about a man cutting faces off corpses to create zombie teenagers. Then something shifts. Director Chuck Russell and creator Mike Richardson keep the core idea, a mask that strips away your inhibitions, but completely flip the tone. Horror-comedy becomes comedy-horror. Enter Jim Carrey, Tex Avery homages, musical numbers, and a softer Stanley Ipkiss whose chaos looks more like cartoons than crime scenes.

On paper, it's a complete pivot: gore to slapstick and cult comic to family movie. But the engine underneath never really changes. In both versions, the mask doesn't turn you into someone else. It drags out whoever you already are and cranks it past ten. The film just asks a more hopeful question: what if that power didn't have to destroy you?

Hollywood made the right movie with Jim, but I'd still love to see the other one. by @wurfmuseum

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a month ago

MAY is a design studio based between New York and Toronto.

Peep this incense holder. A simple idea: a group carrying a burning stick of incense. Functional. Sculptural. Memorable.

And cool as shit.

The studio creates furniture, objects, and homeware that feels playful without sacrificing taste.

SOME PEOPLE JUST GET IT. by @wurfmuseum

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a month ago

The kind of work you accidentally discover at 2am and spend the next hour trying to understand.

WOMASZ creates illustrations and animations that feel like they were pulled from a different version of the internet.

Playful, strange, and a little unsettling.

THE INTERNET FEELS WIERD AGAIN. by @wurfmuseum

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a month ago

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2 months ago

Paris-based designer Luna Romanovna is tired of boring DJ booths.
Through RMNVA Studio, she turns the setup into a centerpiece, something you see as much as you hear.

Available for purchase 2026. Would you cop ? by @wurfmuseum

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6 months ago

In 2020, after the release of Uncut Gems, Adam Sandler had decided he was done doing interviews. What was presented as a casual meeting to chat about a new project was instead an attempt by the Safdie Brothers to secretly record a Q + A. When Ben leaned in to adjust a hidden microphone, Sandler realized what was happening, called it out, and stormed out of the meeting.

Watch the full 20 minute interview in our bio. by @wurfmuseum

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6 months ago

Snoop Dogg’s Murder Was the Case short film.
Starring Snoop Dogg, Charlie Murphy, Gregory Scott Cummins, Ricky Harris, and Sam Sneed.
Preserved in the archive.
Watch via the link in bio. by @wurfmuseum

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6 months ago