Month: March 2014
A video was posted online of cops in Brazil reportedly spray painting a graffiti writer’s face as punishment for tagging a police station. And the Daily News couldn’t be happier. The tabloid notes that the “wannabe Banksy” was “dealt a taste of his own medicine” and how it “looks like karma came back around.” While […]
Milton Glaser, he of “I <3 NY,” the New York magazine logo, that famous Bob Dylan illustration, and countless other iconic designs, is also responsible for all of Brooklyn Brewery’s brand identity. So it’s only fitting that the New York Times asked Glaser to critique the labels of several other independent breweries, most of which, of course, are pretty […]
What’s this Patatap? From artist Jono Brandel and music group Lullatone, here’s what you’ll be doing for the next half an hour. Wait for it to load. Now, your every key will generates a specific sound and a dynamic abstract form. LOOK AT YOU MAKING MUSIC WOW. And here’s ANIMAL’s Andy Cush (who makes music). He just made this: […]
California Senator Leland Yee has been indicted in an extensive bust of the crime ring headed by Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow (of the Wo Hop To). The indictment alleges Yee conspired to traffic firearms, commit wire fraud, and “perform official acts” in exchange for campaign donations. It was his associate former school board president Keith Jackson who told an undercover officer that Yee […]
Here’s your chance to make good on that promise you made to your friend who’s always emailing songs to you. Play My Inbox turns your Gmail account into a playlist, collecting every YouTube and SoundCloud link you have in one place for easy listening. As Evolver.fm points out, you have to give the app access […]
Vik Muniz’s castles made of sand are unfathomably small. Instead of using sand as a building block, stacking huge numbers of grains until they achieve a desired form, he approaches his material like a classical sculptor might approach a block of marble — taking a single grain and etching his images out of it. The […]
Decisive moments by Michael Wolf are very punchy. Doug Rickard’s captures are sprawl like landscape paintings. There are dozens of other artists who sensitively scour the infinite passages of Google Street View for good screengrabs, but Rhizome has just reminded us of Jon Rafman and he is the best at this. Everyone does car accidents. Rafman’s car accident is […]
Kim Dotcom started a political party, and go figure, it’s called the “Internet Party.” In the excruciatingly long and awkward introduction video above, the Megaupload founder cavorts with Barack Obama and New Zealand Prime Minster John Key impersonators while introducing the his new organization’s ambitions. “The Internet Party was founded on the spirit of the […]
Stop what you’re doing and watch (at least some of) this marathon-length video interview with Rap Genius founder Mahbod Moghadam who, for all his company’s foibles, is a very entertaining speaker. He’s the stoned pseudo-intellectual holding forth on politics and philosophy on your college buddy’s couch, except he started a company that’s received $16.8 million in […]
The future is already here, folks, and it looks a lot like Dreamcast. Following Facebook’s $2 billion purchase of hot button-virtual reality company Oculus VR — makers of the Oculus Rift — developers Bronson Zgeb and Gruau Pomme Lackey created Facerift, a Mac and Windows app that lets you browse the social network on your Oculus with […]
