Tag: MONEY
Yesterday afternoon, Business Insider reported that a gold iPhone 5S had sold on eBay for the mind blowing sum of $10,100. Other publications have also been reporting on this recent sale, chalking it up it to bloodthirsty Apple fans willing to sacrifice obscene amounts of cash just to have the latest and greatest product a few weeks […]
A new report confirms that income inequality has reached its most drastic levels since 1928, the gilded moment before the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression. The study, conducted by professors at University of California and the Paris School of Economics, showed that the top one percent of earners–those that make $394,000 or […]
A new study reveals the City of New York pays a mind-bogglingly large $167,731 on each of its inmates each year that they’re imprisoned. For context, a 2010 study put the average annual cost per prisoner across 40 states at $31,286. Last year, there were 12,287 people imprisoned in NYC, bringing the total cost up to […]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s in-house restaurant, Ray’s and Stark’s Bar, now has a water tasting menu with twenty different bottles of water, along with pompous descriptions and ratings. For example: Badoit is naturally carbonated with tiny bubbles, the type found in fine Champagne, that give this water a light and sophisticated taste […]
“There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY you’re getting in,” Pace rep told my editor. She’s been getting calls about Jay-Z all day. “It’s a closed set.” Jay-Z was shooting a Mark Romanek-directed music video inside a gallery in Chelsea, lip-syncing and dancing with half the New York art world as cameos. When Tweets alleging “Jay-Z is doing performance […]
It’s hard out there for a porn blogger. According to an email Google sent some users this week, the company is moving to “strictly prohibit the monetization of Adult content on Blogger,” meaning that any sites on the Google-owned blogging platform that continue to display “adult” ads after June 30 will be shut down. Read the […]
Recently, at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, a live performance by the band Phoenix was punctuated quite nicely by the showering of their audience with approximately 42,000 fake one-hundred dollar bills, each designed by the infamous contemporary artist Richard Prince. Below is a very poor quality video of the newly designed bills raining down on the audience to set the mood. This gesture […]
Next time you hit up one of New York’s newsstands, take a moment to look at the prices of the goods spread out before you. Besides the stand’s raisons d’être–newspapers and magazines–as well as MetroCards, phone cards, and cigarettes, you’ll notice that all of the prices top off conspicuously at $5. That’s because of legislation […]
Every day alot of people sell stuff on Craigslist, but aside from last years Ikea bedframe or perhaps a free toaster the site can tend to be pretty monotonous in its daily offerings. However, a man calling himself Mr. Nice Guy is selling a rather striking portrait of Lil Wayne for $10,000. C’mon, you may […]
Continuing our coverage of Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference, here’s another exciting project born from a one-day intense session of design and planning between and an artist and a technologist. British-born installation artist Matthew Ritchie was paired with technologist Billy Chasen of turntable.fm. They created dabit.org — a charity website that “gives back.” The premise of the site is simple: “Every […]
