Month: February 2015
The Feast of St. Valentine has been corrupted and stolen by Hallmark to sell cringeful punny greeting cards, chocolate corn syrup bombs, and upsold meals at restaurants you wouldn’t go to otherwise. Fuck off mass-produced mandatory affection; what I truly love is chemistry. Poison is an exotic chemical meant to hurt or kill. In the […]
After shooting stunning photos of New York from a helicopter, giving it the appearance of a toy city, photographer Vincent Laforet published aerial shots of Las Vegas for an ongoing series he’s calling “Air.” According to the lensman, he didn’t use a special filter to achieve the amazing hues. “The neon colors and shapes are […]
Two years ago, French artist Greg “Léon” Guillemin landed upon a pop cultural phenomenon in which he began imagining the “Secret Life of Heroes.” In 60 bright comic art panels, he illustrated the illicit, prurient and mundane habits of some of pop culture’s most iconic figures: Darth Vader goes to the beach, Captain America picks […]
Police in Washington State gunned down a man that was running away from them with his hands up. The incident took place on Tuesday in the city of Pasco, and was caught on camera multiple witnesses. As reported by King5 news in Washington, the police had been called in to response to reports that the […]
Bitcoin, the free-wheeling, scam-infested, “fuck the system” techno-libertarian cryptocurrency, lost the dyed hair and leather jacket. He finally bought a nice suit, shined leather shoes and grew up. On Wednesday night, finance and venture capital firms, bitcoin startups, economic think-tanks, and former government big-wigs gathered to talk bitcoin at the Museum of American Finance. Previous […]
The MTA is reportedly in at least $34 billion deep. That’s a pretty big number, but a new report by the Straphangers Campaign really puts it into perspective after finding that the MTA’s mountain of debt is higher than at least 30 countries. The New York Daily News reports: Syria’s national debt is pegged at […]
Officer Peter Liang, the rookie cop who was indicted for six charges in the fatal shooting of East New York man Akai Gurley, apparently debated not reporting the incident for four minutes. It had previously been reported that the officer — who was performing a vertical patrol of the Pink Houses when he fired his […]
Marquis, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti talent, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In a bizarre turn of events like something out of one of Homer’s Guatemalan insanity pepper hallucinations, nearly 2,000 Bolivian protesters took to the streets to protest changes to their local TV network’s broadcasting schedule of the Simpsons recently. And it worked. When the Mr. Burns-like network announced cutbacks to the two-hour blocks of reruns […]
