Demonstrating that streetwear isn’t the only fashion subset with a predilection for cartoons, couture designer Karl Lagerfeld made over SpongeBob SquarePants in his own image, raising $1500 to save some animals. |WWD|
Way back in May we mentioned that Giant was folding and gave at least two possible reasons why. One: it sucked. Two: its newly hired editor-in-chief, Smokey Fontaine, has a terrible history of killing magazines with boring content. Well, we were right! The mag has been deaded and this time they’re not even gonna try and deny it. Read their Sixth Sense-like revelation below acknowledging the inevitable: Read more »
Twitter gives the world access to people’s most mundane details and it’s amazing how many women love to announce to the world that, yes, they’re on the rag. Here are today’s brave, bloated over-sharers. Read more »
It’s no wonder that it took photographer Michael S. Confer months to to capture these unbelievable shots of Coldilocks, a frightfully cute polar bear at the Philadelphia Zoo that doesn’t look as miserable as most animals in captivity do. |Daily Mail|
According to date culled from Google, chicks use Twitter and Facebook considerably more than dudes do. Meanwhile, dudes continue to use Bang Bros. and Brazzers considerably more frequently than chicks (and don’t try to pretend that you aren’t familiar with those websites fellas!). |NY Observer|
Newly rehabilitated grifter, Kari Ferrell, begins her official comeback tour, on Inside Edition, tonight. The gossipy, kinda-newsy show landed the first post-jail interview and gave her top billing over their next most important story: the custom tailored suit that Obama may or may not wear to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. You can watch the teaser for both stories online now and read how the “internet sensation known for con-games, bad checks and her hot talk comes clean.” I reached out to Kari and asked her how she would have introed herself. She wrote back, “They should have just said I was a lady-boy, who came over to America in a crate.” Update: It was pushed back, stay tuned.
The Daily Mail is reporting that Banksy’s illegal IKEA piece was cut down and trucked away to save it from further vandalism. Strangely, the newspaper fails to mention that this enthusiastic street art rescue happened three weeks ago, instead describing it as only taking place a couple days earlier. Read more »
So there’s this video game, “Dragon Age: Origins,” in which a man and an elf bone each other silly inside of a tent. Predictably, this is not setting well with the Jesus freaks, who are now demanding that every person purchasing the game read Sarah Palin’s new book to set them straight. Or something. |World Net Daily|
Mixing and modifying photographs, Andry Vadrey turns typical street scenes into fractal-like images expanded in new dimensions. Cruising cyclists, parked cars and passersby are enveloped in elaborate patterns, “reflecting both Western and Middle-Eastern aesthetic elements.” On Thursday, the interdisciplinary artist presents “Reconquista,” an exhibition of these digitally modified works at Chelsea’s Sputnik Gallery.
“Reconquista,” December 3 – January 16, Sputnik Gallery, 547 West 27th Street
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