Month: October 2013
The disorienting artwork you see above is From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes by the British artist and designer Alex Chinneck. Chinneck created the work in the Cliftonville section of Margate, a formerly wealthy town in seaside UK, from a worn down building that the local government had intended to turn into […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week we’re featuring Jonathan Clancy, an taly-based rocker who makes lean, psychedelic guitar pop as His Clancyness. The playlist, if I do say so, is excellent, digging into Italian bands like Diaframma, […]
First things first: photographer Nick Brandt posed those dead, petrified birds and bats above before he took pictures of them. But everything else that happened to the animals was wrought by Lake Natron, a body of water in the north of Tanzania that kills its victims, then calcifies them. The lake’s deadly nature lies in […]
In the late 80s, legendary comic artist and sensualist R. Crumb wasn’t sure what the suburbs and malls of California looked like anymore, so he asked his friend “Stanley Something-or-other” to drive him around and take updated reference photos for backgrounds. TIME LightBox’s Eugene Reznik tracked acquired the rare photos of shitty parking lots, etc, and tracked down Crumb […]
“Genesis Deflowered,” by Matthew Stillman, depicts the characters of the Bible’s Book of Genesis engaging in–eek! –sex acts, while remaining faithful to the book’s stories and respecting “classic text in form and structure,” according to HuffPo. For daring to imagine a story about populating the Earth with people might involve a little actual fucking, he received a little […]
“Usually, the statistics for photosensitivity […] in the States is one in four thousand people,” Chicago-based artist Kurt Hentschlager said earlier this year. “But for ZEE it’s much more, one in five hundred or so. The epileptic seizures are triggered by the flashes. It’s a very intense input, probably the most intense it could possibly be.” ZEE has already induced […]
The Daily News is reporting the driver in the West Side Highway motorcycle chase/fight footage that went viral yesterday is Alexian Lien, a 33-year-old man working in finance and tech. As was initially reported, his wife and two-year-old child were in the car with him. According to police, after Lien stopped his car near the end of the […]
Goose, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
