Month: February 2013
Remember when that 10-ton meteorite fell 30,000 mph into a Russian lake and suddenly, all these dashcam videos popped up online and you were like waaaaaa? And then the whole internet is like, WHY DO RUSSIANS HAVE DASH CAMS?!!! And then this ANIMAL article from 2012 — Dash-Cams: Russia’s Last Hope for Civility and Survival on […]
Hanging from the ceiling of the Industry Gallery in Washington, DC are 3D-printed replicas of a real man’s organs, illuminated by neon tubes that have been shoved through them obtrusively. Other lifelike body parts float in vats of warm water saturated with a special powder that allows potassium aluminum sulphate crystals to grow– and thrive– […]
AsapSCIENCE has created a video illustrating the process of what constant viewings of pornography can do to you, and surprise, it can have lasting effects on your brain, like literally everything else that exists that a person repeatedly does. The video explains how watching porn, like eating or other activities, triggers dopamine in the brain […]
This is Screaming Females’ new video for their song “Poison Arrow” off of the EP Chalk Tape. Directed by Kate Sweeney, the video follows a cross-dressing art collective who evidently own at art contests. However, at the upcoming art contest, there’s a newcomer who’s all the rage, so the trio of artists (played by New […]
Kansas-based photographer Emma Kisiel, who focuses on “ways in which we as humans experience and interact with animals,” has been making images of roadkill, specifically roadkill memorialized by the photographer herself for a series called At Rest. She pairs the drab sight of rodent death with brightly colored flower petals, etc. Why? My images draw […]
Many of America’s prisons boast visiting rooms that are festooned with bizarre wall art, so that friends and family members of incarcerated people can take pictures of their loved ones on backdrops other than the depressing, institutional grays and whites of the correctional facility. Artist and photographer Alyse Emdur has compiled six years worth of […]
Premiering at SXSW this year on March 11 is Australian director Eva Orner’s documentary The Network, chronicling the rise of TOLO TV, the first independent television network in Afghanistan established in the wake of the American invasion. Launched in 2004, TOLO has since grown to employ 800 Afghan news producers and is one of the […]
Aren’t you loving Twitter’s ability to turn your life into a statistic? Yes? So, here’s an interactive map that the Gothamist found, depicting a vast diversity of languages tweeted throughout New York City, as detected by Google Translate. See the density of each language is visualized by neighborhood: English (grey), Spanish (second-most-tweeted language: blue), Portuguese (red), etc. The resulting infographic […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. Today, we look at The Chakachas’ “Yo Soy Cubano,” a song that provided sample fodder for two wildly different tracks: Kendrick Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle” and “Magic Carpet Ride” […]
Weak-willed dieters beware: gooey, cheesy temptation awaits you. Presenting: pizza on film, the supercut, from Dog Day Afternoon to Wayne’s World. Cowabunga. […]
