Month: August 2013
The holy grail of binge drinking may have just arrived. A group of Australian researchers have developed a beer they claim hydrates you as you drink it, not only keeping the drinker hangover-free, but actively staving off the dreaded headache and sour stomach. Their solution to a problem as old as time? Sweet, magic electrolytes! […]
Here are some photographs of people wearing keffiyehs, crosses, turbans and bindis, with quotes explaining their importance to their direct cultural affiliations. Here are also some photos of people wearing scarfs, pendants, headdresses and face jewelry that happen to look like keffiyehs, crosses, turbans and bindis, with quotes defending their fashion choices. U.K. photographer and Pakistani […]
It turns out Iran and small-town Colorado aren’t entirely different. According to the Associated Press, Iranian newspaper Etemad daily is reporting that students in the middle-eastern country may be taught to hunt drones in school. General Ali Fazli, acting commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’s Basij militia, said the anti-drone classes will be taught as a part of […]
German television station ikono is hosting a twenty-four-hour video art festival, something that hasn’t ever been done before. While this is a completely new idea for a television station, notable video artists such as Bill Viola, Alfredo Jaar, and William Kentridge have already been conformed to be broadcasting their works on television as well as through an online […]
Sometimes you just need to get things down on paper in order to understand them better… all the things. Contemporary artists William Powhida and Jade Townsend have produced a large collaborative graphite drawing titled “Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes,” translated from Latin as “war of all against all.” The large graphite drawing focuses mainly on the internal […]
Of all of the images to emerge from the chaos currently raging in Egypt, among the gripping is the one you see above, of a military armored truck toppling off of Cairo’s 6th of October bridge last Wednesday. According to photographer Aly Hazzaa, who took the photo, the Central Security Forces truck fell when its driver […]
For those of you who are concerned about the government–or anyone else–profiling you based on your web-surfing habits, here’s Paranoid Browsing, a new Chrome extension that may throw big brother off your trail. It works by opening a tab in the background that randomly browses through the internet, jamming your history with sites you didn’t […]
In Moscow, eight members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster were detained for holding an illegal rally. While the world the internet is familiar with the Pastafarian movement as a parody religion against the literal interpretation of scripture — magical Jesus, Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc. — in Russia, shit gets realer. The Church of FSP […]
A new set of images by artist Nickolay Lamm imagines a New York City in which wealth is mapped directly onto the skyline. That, the higher the average net worth of an area is, the taller its buildings become. The results are striking, if not entirely surprising. On Lamm’s maps, the Upper East and West […]
Abraham, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Allison Bagg/ANIMALNewYork) […]
