Month: August 2013
Recently, the Guggenheim Archives had a screening of unlabeled 8mm films from their massive collection. The eye-opening, short, hazy vignettes of Manhattan’s Meatpacking District show workers go about their day, accompanied by clips of trash and other ephemera surrounding the area, as well as some shots of the subway as it once was. Commenters on […]
The enormously popular boy band One Direction is playing the “Today” show tomorrow. Some people are very excited about this. A select few are so excited, in fact, that they’re currently posted up on Rockefeller Plaza, camping to ensure they’ll be among the first in line to get in. Some of them have been there […]
Issue 9 of artsy culture magazine King Brown is out and it’s dope. It features interviews with the likes of Dabs & Myla, Ed Templeton, NYCHOS, Ghostpatrol, HuskMitNavn, Unga (Broken Fingaz crew), Numskull, Vans the Omega, and Ozzie Wright, among others. One of my favorite staples of the limited edition mag that was founded by […]
This is not what a feminist artist looks like. I am not in a habit of trashing a show before I see it, so I won’t trash the 2-day “EXPLICIT” exhibit at Morgan Avenue Underground in Bushwick this weekend. After reading this Vice profile however, it’s clear that there is an ethical and intellectual fail in […]
Lee Daniels’ The Butler is simultaneously sprawling in its scope, and in-your-face, small-details gritty. Starring Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African American butler in the White House from the Eisenhower to Reagan administration, it jumps through two presidents in a single montage while slowing up to indulge strange tangents that totally aren’t pertinent to the […]
Google Glass has only been available for a few short months now, but developers have been as busy as ever testing the limits of the device. So naturally, someone made it possible to pilot a drone using Google Glass. Blaine Bublitz ,developer and co-founder of IcedDev and hackPHX has done some pretty intensive coding, making it now possible […]
Al Jazeera America has a fascinating profile on Jose LaSalle, a parks worker who has made it his personal mission to ensure New York City cops aren’t overstepping their bounds when it comes to stop-and-frisk. Nightly, LaSalle patrols the streets of Harlem, Brownsville, or the Bronx with his camera, looking for cops stopping and frisking teenagers […]
These types of Australian mugshots resurface once in awhile, but this batch of face / full body diptychs is the most gorgeous set I’ve ever seen. They were shot in the ’20s and discovered in ’89. They’re actually 4-by-6-inch glass plate negatives. That means one giant bulky camera and lots of set-up. The most proper of […]
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. This week saw the release of Earl Sweatshirt’s long-awaited debut album Doris. We’re looking at early highlight “Centurion,” which shares a sample with the 1995 Kool G Rap track “Take […]
Bulgarian capital Sofia hates their Soviet army monument. You would too if you had a gigantic bronze relief remind you about an invading country’s forces that crushed a reformist uprising 45 years ago. It’s been vandalized. It’s now all pretty in pink, tagged with the words “Prague ’68” and “Bulgaria apologizes” in Czech and Bulgarian, […]
