Month: March 2014
Last week, we published photos from Friday Night Throwdown at SXSW, an event that pitted NYC boxers against their Texas counterparts, and now, there’s video. The clip is a little light on actual fighting, but does capture the spectacle of the event: come for the boxing, stay for the breakdancing sword swallower (or Mike Jones). […]
If you’ve been pining to see all the shame and procrastination of your browser history laid out before your eyes, look no further than Iconic History, a Chrome extension designed to do just that. One click gives you a collage of favicons — those little icons on the left side of a browser tab — […]
Here’s a great supercut that slices shots from Wes Anderson’s filmography straight down in half –right along the nose-line of all The Royal Tenenbaums, through every line of that stop-motion furry thing and… wait till you see The Grand Budapest Hotel. It explains a lot. Wes’s compulsion for perfection, balance and order? You have no idea. Nice job, Kogonada. Wonderful […]
In an effort to better equip advertisers for convincing you to buy products you don’t actually want or need, marketing researchers at North Carolina State University studied the lyrics to chart-topping songs over the past 50 years. If people respond to certain themes in lyrics, the thinking goes, they’ll respond to those same themes when […]
The saga of Beastie Boys versus GoldieBlox appears to be winding to a close, as the two parties have reached a settlement in a lawsuit sparked by a GoldieBlox YouTube commercial that went viral late last year. GoldieBlox, which sells toys designed to “inspire the future generation of female engineers,” used a reworking of the […]
“One day I say, I need to make the most mystical scene, a scene that will be very heavy because you are dying, and your woman will ask you to allow her to send the water of faith through her body and she will PISS IN YOUR FACE!” Dressed in layers of black, Alejandro Jodorowsky […]
Internet news aggregator Digg doesn’t want you to die from household items or turn orange like an Oompa Loompa, so they posted some informative illustrations along with details of exactly how many of those products it would take to ensure that neither of those things happen. Don’t even think about gorging on 13 tubes of […]
The above video from Mother Jones provides an unusual argument for legalizing cannabis: illegal grow operations can be very, very bad for the environment. The short clip follows Mourad Gabriel, a wildlife ecologist who works to battle the effects of weed-growing in national forests. Along the way, we see copious amounts of garbage strewn around, water diverted […]
“I created Mt. Gox as an actual landscape,” artist-render LaTurbo Avedon tells ANIMAL. “People can submit media to place it at or on the shrine.” Avedon is an artist-render who exists only in on social media, Second Life and other interactive digital platforms that she chooses to inhabit. This is her first show at the online project […]
Meet Brad. Brad is a toaster. More specifically, Brad is a smart toaster, and as a smart toaster, he’s connected both to the internet and to a local network of other toasters and household appliances. Welcome to the internet of things. However, unlike our current bevy of smart-home products — like inexplicably Wi-Fi-connected refrigerators and […]
