Month: January 2014
It’s hard to believe that H.R. Giger’s horrifically terrifying ‘Alien’ has been haunting our collective conscious for over three decades now and yet still finds new ways to penetrate our brains. The latest iteration of the cult classic comes by way of a mural teeming with the hard to kill creatures and other oddities in […]
After much cajoling from our colleague Andy Dao, Goodyear put Ice Cube on their iconic blimp. The occasion was January 20, anniversary of the day Cube was supposedly most likely rapping about on his classic cut “It Was a Good Day.” Earlier this month, Dao and some friends organized a campaign to raise $25,000 for […]
Also, penis. Because isn’t it refreshing when a female ex-partner is being a predatory fame-seeker and has herself a gallery show comprised entirely out of her mediocre photographs of former lover and famous dead artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, hanging out all nude on her mattress, his junk flapping around in an air of casual intimacy and […]
Yesterday, there were fireworks and catapults with flaming bricks, as uprising citizens in Ukraine’s “protest zone” were being mass texted: “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.” Today, the photos and videos coming through social media directly from the front lines have lost any touch of cinematic dystopia. It’s simply war. […]
Sometime recently, Toronto Mayor and admitted crack smoker Rob Ford was videotaped ranting — probably drunkenly — in a terrible Canadian imitation of a Jamaican patois (it wasn’t his first awkward interaction with Caribbean culture). For the love of dancehall, and partially inspired by the mayor’s crack remix, we mashed up the speech with Major […]
Christopher Morris is best known for his photographs of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Chechnya and the drug war in Colombia, but in the 1980s, he was a 22-year-old photo agency intern from Florida. These are some rare, recently-discovered, previously unpublished photographs on Time LightBox today. This is how he got his start. A […]
With the intent of giving people the experience of living in another’s body, the Machine to Be Another project uses Oculus Rift to approximate another person’s perspective. In the above video, entitled “Gender Swap,” two pairs of people — one man, one woman each — wear the perspective-switching headsets and mimic each others physical movements, […]
In an effort to give the fledgling cryptocurrency Dogecoin a more “unique identity,” Redditor and Dogecoin-er Grazsebastian proposed something radical: do away with Comic Sans, the infamous typeface that’s provided Doge’s John Hancock from the start, and replace it with Doge Sans, a custom-built font, based on Comic Sans, that’s just for Doge. Here’s what he […]
When Andrew Cuomo unveiled his plan for legalizing cannabis for medical use in New York State, one element activists were quick to criticize was the method of distribution. Under Cuomo’s proposal, hospitals, as opposed to dispensaries, would be called on to distribute weed. Because hospitals are federally regulated, and cannabis remains illegal on the federal […]
A winter-polar-vortex-storm-thing hit the city on Tuesday and although snow was expected to fall until daybreak Wednesday, it tapered off later that evening. So, a little before 11PM, Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina announced that public schools would be open. Soon after, the official Twitter account for New York City Schools reiterated that news. And then […]
