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The nicer your phone is, the more likely you are to drop and damage it. It’s pretty much a fact by this point. If you’re an iPhone fan, though, you might have less problems with cracked screens in your future. Apple has filed a patent for a “Protective Mechanism for an Electronic Device” that, should […]
Photographer Paul McDonough’s black-and-white photo collection of New York City life in the sixties and seventies is a nostalgia-fest. Ah, the good old days, right? Love was in the air, everyone was freakishly good looking, priests were total ballers, cab fare was cheap, and you could wrap your infant up in newspaper and just do […]
Last month, MoMA PS1 announced a competition to design the recovery effort of the Rockaways, soliciting submissions from artists, architects, and designers everywhere. In the above documentary from Joshua Kogan, residents of the area react to the contest, citing worry that the powers that be will drown out the community’s voice, and encouraging the city […]
Tribeca Film Festival has just announced their online competition for six-second films through the Vine platform. Just shoot your Vines, tag ’em #6SECFILMS + one of their categories — #Genre, #Amateur, #Animate or #Series — and post them to Twitter before April 7th. And follow @TribecaFilmFest. Great idea. EXCUSE ME TRIBECA IMA LET YOU FINISH, but […]
New York! Great city, but where are all the benches? Not on my block, that’s for sure! How are we going to find the benches? With StreetSeats! Someone’s put a new twist on George Costanza’s old concept and created a database on all the public seating (but not pooping) areas in the city. Take a look […]
David Bowie is opened last week at the V&A Museum, gracing Londonites with the ultimate, long-awaited treasure trove of all things Bowie. Oh good. Good for you, friends across the pond who get to bask in vast psychedelic projections of Bowie throughout his life, gape at personal knickknacks like his prized Diamond Dogs-era coke spoon, […]
Why is Miley Cyrus twerking in a unicorn suit to J. Dash’s “Wop”? Who knows? Being young, rich and bored looks fun as hell, though. Is it art? Yes. But is it ratchet? Watch for yourself. CHECK IT#WOP #1Z #UNICORN #TWERK tinyurl.com/WOP1ZMC — Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) March 21, 2013 Verdict: Not ratchet. […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. Today, we’re reaching way back to The Flamingos’ 1959 hit “I Only Have Eyes You,” which provided the basis for The Fugees’ classic “Zealots” as well as minimal electronic […]
Praise be to Gawker for publishing a new batch of George W. Bush paintings, straight from hacker Guccifer. Subjects include shells(?), landscapes, cats and, yes, more dogs. These paintings present Bush’s ability to paint various subjects and not just dogs and his nude self. But if we’re being honest, these aren’t as good as the […]
First things first: Google’s new Chrome World Wide Maze is very buggy, crashes often, and will probably frustrate you a lot. Now that that’s out of the way: Google’s new Chrome World Wide Maze is an incredible, engaging game that makes the internet feel like magic. Head here, follow the instructions for linking your phone […]
