Month: February 2013
Street artist Joe Iurato reminds the public to “Never Let Go” in Brooklyn. (Photo: Jake Dobkin/Flickr) […]
Julien Nitzberg, director of cult favorite The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, created this 10-minute documentary on hero comedian Patton Oswalt. To Be Loved and Understood touches on the performer’s creative process, daily life, and struggles with depression, with a good dose of stand-up footage thrown in as well. Brought to you by the Thrash Lab, […]
When we last left Lil Poopy, he was being rapper who starred in music videos while being nine years old. Now, it seems that Lil Poopy’s dealing with his first run-in with the cops, but it’s not even his fault. Police are investigating the welfare of Lil Poopy, after someone in charge of child welfare […]
“I want to play God” is how Cao Hui‘s begins is artist statement. Clearly. The Beijing-based artist has makes stone into flesh. And then, he slices it. Behind the marble surfaces of familiar classical statues, bloody flesh and bone appear, visible as cartoonish, gory slabs. There’s just something so frightening about this. Pygmalion IRL, basically. […]
As you read this, an intrepid Google Nexus smartphone is blasting through space, where it will continue to orbit the Earth for the next six months. Today marks the launch of a multi-faceted experiment designed by a team of researchers from England’s University of Surrey, who hope to test several theories on outerspace physics, screams, […]
New York-based artist Asger Carlsen makes these beautifully-toned monochrome portraits Edward Weston could be proud of, but there’s a caveat — his subjects are horrifying mutant humanoids, “slabs of what appears to be human tissue wrapped in skin and supported by bone.” Impossible and grotesque but so hyperrealistic, they are hard to look away from. […]
How does the toilet at your local go-to spot match up against other toilets around New York City? Thanks to Toilets of New York, you can now compare. The featured latrines are primarily from Brooklyn and East Village, as they belong to establishments that creator Ian MacAllen regularly visits. The graffiti-splashed johns are the most […]
There’s a meatpacking plant in Vernon, California with an absurd mural outside: happy pigs frolic in pastures, chomping on grass and rocking Dodgers caps, living in totally peaceful coexistence with their benevolent overlords. Streetwear brand the Hundreds, which recently moved its offices and warehouse to the L.A. suburb, decided to retaliate by painting a mural of […]
I have some beautiful net art for you. Here’s a little bit from the latest GIF series from Emilio Gomariz: RGB landscapes. Reminds us a bit of Nicolas Sassoon, but more colorful. Anyway, DISCLAIMER: Possibly seizure-inducing new net art below. Enjoy. […]
Philadelphia neuroscientist-turned-artist Greg Dunn brings us these elegant metallic prints of neurons, done entirely from memory (kind of meta, no?). After earning his Ph.D., Dunn was fed up with the strict adherence to fact that dictated his grad school experience, so he decided to channel his passion for neuroanatomy towards something more creatively flexible. Inspired […]
