Hi, internet. Pretty sure we were all over it and like, all… over it. Like, really really over it? But look: OKFocus made you a thing. It generates #seapunk names. I want to say…. “OKFocus u late?” Did something happen? Hold on. Let me check. Nope. Ok, it’s ironic. Sorry, it’s hard to tell these days. Here’s a #seapunk name generator. The design on this thing […]
Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric directed Major Lazer’s latest video “Bubble Butt” which explains everything. Check it out: #seapunk chicks. Watch ’em swaying to clinky Caribbean-esque “dope beats” until a Giant Bubble Butt Medusa Woman comes down Godzilla style, sprouts bike pumps out of her mouth and pumps their seapunk butts until they are of proper Bubble […]
More often than not, Twitterbots are useless. They don’t have a lot of practical applications unless you’re interested in spam or looking to spread malware. But sometimes, Twitterbots can be useless in a good way. Oscar Wilde was paying a compliment when he said, “All art is quite useless.” Basically, the inherent use of art must […]
Imagine you’re back in the distant past. The year was 2008, a strange and terrifying time. The recession was in full swing, we hadn’t yet gained the ability to “like” things on Facebook, and Microsoft was getting really desperate to recruit cool young kids before they were all snatched up by Google. These recruiting videos from Microsoft are both […]
Yesterday, Venus X — the DJ and founder of the underground dance parties GHE20GOTHIK — announced via an angry Twitter screed that she would be quitting music and ending GHE20GOTHIK. Her reasons are all to do with her perception that the pop star Rihanna has been jacking her style intentionally and misrepresenting Venus’ subculture to the […]
On May 27, the London Contemporary Music Festival will host an event called “Marxist Chillwave,” which, well, let’s just take a moment to let that sink in. What could it possibly mean? Neon Indian covering Gang of Four? A Friedrich Engels reading set to sidechained Fleetwood Mac samples? Stereolab? Once you get past the trollbait name, however […]
Earlier this year, Realm Recognize Realm won Rhizome’s Internet Art Grant (and complimentary legitimacy). But the $2,000 “award for the creation of new internet based artworks from members of the Tumblr’s thriving artist community” is not enough to keep it real IRL for a six-day, all-ages tour along the East Coast. So, here’s their Kickstarter. For this: REALM RECOGNIZE […]
Put on a bucket hat, do the cooking dance, add some net art aesthetics and #90sKid pop cultural references, and you’ve got yourself a pretty banging rap video circa 2013. Technically, Yung Lean is from Sweden, but really, he’s a child of the internet, and as such, all of the above make appearances in “Hurt,” his […]
By now, if you care about these sorts of things, you’ve seen iOS 7, the new Apple mobile operating system that will be running your life come fall. It’s “flat!” It’s filled with colorful gradients! According to one coworker, it looks like iOS for babies! As the first OS to be overseen by longtime Apple […]
You’re up early-ish. Here’s your reward. Prolific French artist and video designer Michaël Borras aka Systaime just made this datamosh and 8-bit cover of our favorite “net-artist” Rihanna’s “Stay” featuring Mikky Ekko. (Datamosh is cool, datamosh is grea-a-at.) Seriously hypnotizing, thanks for making this. Why did he make this? For the fun. 😉 Here’s Systaime’s Rhianna with just datamosh: Here’s […]
