Man Of Steel

Zack Snyder takes Superman very seriously.  “In the comic-book universe, you have all these sort of minor celebrities that have been put up as the end-all, be-all,” Snyder told Hero Complex recently  throwing some shade at movies that have featured lesser heroes like Green Lantern, Ghost Rider and the Punisher among others. “And then you have the fallen king who’s sadly relegated to the shadows. It’s cool to resurrect him and say, ‘Understand that this is the granddaddy of all superheroes.’” That's fighting talk, especially given the grosses for "Iron Man 3," but Snyder has every reason to be confident at this point; the buzz on "Man Of Steel," is becoming increasingly deafening, to the point where we image Warners are keen for people to lower their expectations, for fear of being disappointed when the finished movie doesn't cure cancer or grow limbs back. But with less than a month to go until the film hits theaters, they're hardly going to ease off on the marketing, and a...

Easily mistaken for a purely decorative object, the Final Turn is actually an urn. The Seattle-based architect Tom Kundig, of Olson Kundig Architects, created the piece with the designer Greg Lundgren, of Seattle’s Lundgren Monuments, to give thoughtful design to a vessel that Kundig says is often overlooked. The piece stands roughly 8 inches high, comes in blackened steel ($3,300) or bronze ($3,850), and consists of two halves that are intentionally out of kilter when put together. Inside, the upper half incl...