Month: June 2014
A sinkhole grows in Brooklyn. (Photo: @el_peego) […]
When Insa isn’t photographing hot girls on fixies, he’s painting street art murals with day-glo colors that are impossible to miss on walls and buildings around the world. Insa has also been known to paint multi-layered murals, taking photos along the way to build a stop-motion gif-like video. The video then becomes a stop motion […]
The good news: New York will likely become the 23rd state in the U.S. to legalize weed for medicinal use. The bad news: Governor Cuomo has placed so many limitations on the Compassionate Care Act that it’s likely to reduce its effectiveness. The Drug Policy Alliance explains the measure’s shortcomings: [T]he bill would prohibit smoking, […]
“Frankly, I hate Ghandi,” says a young woman in The World Before Her, a groundbreaking documentary by Indian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja. The film follows the parallel universes of young women competing in the Miss India beauty pageant, while their peers train as fighters in Hindu nationalist camps. On the issues entrenched in the film, Al Jazeera writes: […]
As of this moment, there have been 21 World Cup matches. Though there are plenty of reasons to hate this corrupt, poor people exploiting, international sporting event in Brazil, this is very exciting stuff to some people, particularly the soccer fans who show up garlanded in patriotic regalia and face-paint, waiting and waiting and waiting […]
Directed by Syrian-born Riad Sattouf, Jacky in the Kingdom of Women is a Cinderella story like no other. The kingdom is ruled by a female tyrant and policed by female soldiers while the men are viciously repressed. It’s “part North Korea, part tribal Afghanistan” with the genders reversed. Enter Jacky, the prettiest boy in the village. He’s in love […]
Fort Tilden will open again on June 29th with a day-long event. This will “kick-off the Rockaway! public art festival and celebrate the reopening of historic Fort Tilden, which has been closed due to damage from Hurricane Sandy,” organizers write in the press release. This will be the first event of the Rockaway! Arts Festival, […]
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Dir. by Doug Bourne-Movie-Bro Liman, it’s Groundhog Day during an alien invasion and it’s so fantastic and so funny and you’re not watching it because U R SOME HATERS, THIS IS SOME EXHILARATING SHIT TOM CRUISE BEING GOOD AT BEING TOM CRUISE: 5.0 out of 5.0 Sure, Tom Cruise runs in “way that […]
Digital sticker brand Hi-Art are launching their new app today, which will feature a ton of free “sticker” emojis designed by CLAW, Ron English, Ghostface Killah and many others. Founder and CEO Nico Dios , who was part of the New York grafitti crew Irak, writes: Today’s youth are not represented properly by cute bears, […]
During the US Marshals’ silent auction for the $18 million bitcoins seized in the government raid of Silk Road, the US government proved they can completely screw up even the simplest of online tasks. They revealed the identities of 40 anonymous bidders by CC-ing instead of BCC-ing contacts in an email. The email in question wasn’t even that important […]
