Month: August 2014
From Cecilia Azcarate, who brought us that tumblr with rappers that look like 16th Century art, here’s “Ikea b4-XVI” featuring classic pre-1650 artworks by Hieronymus Bosch, Pietro Lorenzetti and other really dead people. Also featuring furniture and home basics that sort of look like stuff you can get at Ikea. That Christ-annunciating angel is all like, “Nice towel, Mary.” And wait, holy shit, […]
According to the New Scientist, the generally accepted theory that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate “had never been directly tested.” It relied upon certain things, like type IA supernova’s thermonuclear explosions, which can be used as “standard candles” to measure the distance between stars and potentially record data to prove the accelerating expansion theory. Up till now, there […]
No. Tony Soprano did not die at the end of The Sopranos, because the dude who created an ambiguous ending in an imaginary world said so. […]
Days after Robin Williams took his own life, aerosol tributes to the funnyman started popping all over the world, from Belgrade and Dublin to Los Angles and Brooklyn. And now, Manhattan. The latest RIP wall was done by LES throwback and mural king Antonio Garcia, better known as “Chico.” The portrait style piece which sort […]
There’s lots of useless shit on Zazzle.com, the on-demand printing company that gets sued sometimes. Specifically, there’s lots of Putin fan merch, like the Shepard Fairey bootlegs and other crap, but this collection is simply delightful. With slogans such as “Vladimir Putin What A Great Guy!” and “Vladimir Putin Coolest World Leader,” the series is being offered by interesting Libertarian voice-over actor and possible artist Tony […]
Russian sound and technology artist ::vtol:: has created a spinning, levitating speaker which emits glitchy noise. The speaker spins fast or slow, LED lights flash and the noises it makes sound a lot like an old dial up modem. The speaker receives noise using bluetooth and the sound is created using “pure data.” The project Division By […]
A new survey from Pew Research Center and Rutger’s University shows that social media use makes people less likely to voice opinions they think are different than those held by their friends. This uneasiness even extends to the offline world, where participants who used social media consistently were less likely to voice dissenting views, if […]
For awhile there, Spanish clothing company Zara was selling this “sheriff t-shirt” with white and blue stripes and a yellow six-point star on it… which looks like the uniforms worn by Holocaust victims in death camps. Made in Turkey, the shirt was being sold at Zara’s Israeli, French, Albanian and Swedish online stores, until Israeli journalist Dimi Reider from the Isreali […]
There’s a profile of the Onion’s three-person art department on FastCo Design and it just sounds like the best editorial art job in the world, really. An Onion article titled “New Law Enforcement Robot Can Wield Excessive Force Of 5 Human Officers” includes a remarkable bit of artwork, which you can see above: a muscled, armored tank-like robot armed with […]
Whether you’re clinging to the back seat of a cab or narrowly avoiding being hit by one as a pedestrian, it’s a fact of life in New York City that some taxis have dangerous drivers. But not all cab drivers are reckless. In fact, Frederick Amoafo, a 46-year-old cabbie from Queens, was just awarded by the city for having […]
