Year: 2013
Remember that thing I said about design-y pop cultural mashups being internet gold? Well, here you go. An illustrator and designer who goes by Billy Butcher gave a bunch of ’80s punks and rock stars a DC Comics makeover, turning Morrissey into Superman, Ian Curtis into Batman, Siouxee into Wonder Woman, and slew of others. […]
Inspired by the miniature Pixies renaissance of recent years, the band’s webmaster began compiling vintage photos of the group and hopes to release a book, PIXIES: A Visual History, later this year. He’s taking to Kickstarter to fund the thing (natch), and for a $75 donation, you’ll get a first pressing of the book in all its […]
Tonight marks the premiere of If These Knishes Could Talk, a documentary exploring the New York accent in all its colors and flavors. In the trailer above, everyone from Italian Brooklynites to Asian Staten Islanders weigh in on how their speech does or doesn’t define them, and discuss the history and future of the venerable squawk. “It’s […]
Alexandr, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Street artist El Sol 25’s heartfelt message is still running in Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The National Transportation Safety Board is determined to change the legal drunk driving limit from .08 to .05 percent. After decades of research, they’ve finally realized that if I drink 2 shots of tequila and a Tecate in an hour (supposedly amounting to .077 percent), it’s possible that I might not be safest, most capable […]
Brooklyn-based photographer Henry Hargreaves is Burning Calories. The project comments on the US obesity problem. With torches. And shiny. Also, fire. Donut: You are beautiful. I’m going to eat you. And, like, bike a whole bunch. All the food in this is burning series is made from cake. Pizza-shaped cake. Burger ‘n’ fries-shaped cake. Donut-cake cake cake cake cake. […]
If you’re like me, you’re both stoked for the premiere of Arrested Development season three this month and secretly a little worried that you’ll miss out on what’s sure to be a barrage of intertextuality and inside jokes. I mean, the show went off the air seven years ago, and unless you’re one of those people that’s […]
This music video for Planet Online by Dent De Cuir is A+. See the internet’s most popular internet things from the internet — Facebook, Buzzfeed, 4 Chan, YouTube, Twitter, etc. — as remixed ’80s toys. I WANT THE PIRATE BAY SHIP, GIMME, MO-O-O-O-OM!!! It gets kind of dark at the end as these adorable kids start […]
Sorry, white people from Iowa. Columbia University’s Lydia C. Roberts scholarship, established in 1920, offered financial aid to your kind and your kind only. Not a “[person] of the Caucasian race, of either sex, born in the State of Iowa,” who “graduated from a college or university in the State of Iowa?” You’re not eligible for […]
