Month: March 2014
A few seconds after starting The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s new video for “Simple and Sure,” you’ll wonder whether you’re watching some kind of video looping or a group of people performing the same small gestures over and over. A few seconds after that, you’ll be pretty sure that yes, these are just shots of […]
The city banned the smoking of electronic cigarettes in public late last year, and now, a smokers’ rights group is suing to have the legislation overturned. The lawsuit’s argument hinges on semantics. As The Verge points out, New York’s constitution requires that “laws must address only one subject, and that subject must be reflected in the title,” […]
Etizolam or “etizzy” is a benzodiazepine-like drug that produces the five characteristic benzo effects: relax, don’t worry, sleep, get loose with it, and don’t have a seizure. Molecularly, it’s quite similar to benzos like Klonopin, Xanax, or phenazepam, but the benzene ring that makes them “benzos” is replaced with a thiophene ring, making etizolam a thienodiazepine […]
The Unsound Festival — a multi-day Polish experimental music festival imported to NYC from Krakow, has just announced its dates: April 2nd through April 6th. Taking place across multiple venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan, the lineup includes “experimental, classical, post-classical, techno, improv, dub,” Demdike Stare, Andy Votel, Ital & Halal and Huerco S. There will be a series of lectures, […]
The last time NASA rolled out a new spacesuit, it was the Z-1, a prototype that looked like exactly like Buzz Lightyear. Now, the space agency is pursuing its sucessor, the Z-2, by asking the public to vote on one of three designs. All three are batshit crazy. There’s “Trends in Society,” above, a suit […]
Digg and Pornhub created this interactive porn infographic, which plots the favorite XXX subgenres of several major U.S. cities. What do we learn? The most popular search term across the country is “massage,” which seems pretty weird. Also, people really like Lisa Ann (aka Sarah “Paylin”). City-by-city, the results skew towards national trends, with stuff […]
“Used to be my main bitch, now she’s just a follower …” Yung Jake (“Datamosh,” “e.m-bed.de/d,” and the Larry David rap song) has just performed his latest song “Unfollow” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Click to watch the music video above. It’s his slickest video yet. And it’s very sensitive. (“Now it’s over… like a […]
Though most of the art at 5 Pointz has been murdered, and the complex is slated for demolition, for now, it still stands. The urban exploring group LTV Squad went inside recently, and the photos above document what they found. Here’s what the group said about exploring the former graffiti landmark. What we found inside […]
For his latest video remix, Eclectic Method takes on that wisest of Jedi masters, Yoda, slowing down his usual high-BPM frenzy for a dubby, chilled-out track. Watch it in all its bass-heavy glory above. […]
The above short film looks at Hong Kong’s neon signs industry, which boomed decades ago but is now slowing down thanks to the advent of LED and a less robust economy. The documentary includes interviews with both the calligraphers who design the type and the neon workers who build the signs, as well as lots of […]
