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Evan Seitz, the Atlanta-based motionographer who brought you minimalist-y montage quiz animations Alphagames, 123Films and Geovideos, has just released the last in his 5-part series, ABCinema – Take 2. Film nerds rejoice and take a minute to absorb 26 all new two-second soundbites from mostly classic films with a few more contemporary nods than the […]
The fast food social media world was rocked today when Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked and became amusing, changing its name to McDonald’s and tweeting out Chief Keef and Gucci Mane videos. The group behind the hacking might be Lulzsec, as evidenced by the tweets right here, but who knows. Anyway, to whomever is […]
You’re about to watch a group of perfectly average-looking New Yorkers struggle with several rolling bags, interconnected with tubes. Watch them drag their “baggage” into some high traffic intersections and rattle over sidewalk grates. Because [performance] art. Specifically, Movable Carts by Miryana Todorova. Movable Carts’ aims to expand the boundaries of personal space and explores themes […]
Researchers at UCLA have developed a way to reduce blood alcohol levels in drunk mice, in a study that could forebear a pill that would help you quickly sober up after a night of boozing. Scientists gave the rodents a nanocapsule filled with an enzyme that naturally metabolizes alcohol, and those animals dosed with the […]
Did you know that any porn site ever and this picture of Morgan Freeman can be linked to each other on the internet in 19 clicks or fewer? We are all connected. Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási published his study yesterday, and for an estimated 14 billion webpages, every one can be linked to another in […]
ESPO hooked up with Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s king of slacker rock and roll, for the cover of Wakin on a Pretty Daze, Vile’s latest album. The artist born Steve Powers created a giant mural in Kensington, Philly, in his sign-painting style, depicting specific images from the record’s lyrics. “I think Wakin on a Pretty Daze is perfect,” says Powers […]
Totally shocking, breaking Banksy news!!! If you’ve become accustomed to seeing the very famous street artist’s stencils being boarded up, made a fuss about and chiseled out of the walls of Detroit and Palestine (PALESTINE for fuck’s sake!) and then sold off at an auction, all shady-like… It happened again. This time to that hyped one Banksy did recently to […]
Writer John Millward has compiled what may be the biggest-ever statistical study of the porn industry. By extracting data from the Internet Adult Film Database–the IMDB of pornography–he’s come up with some big-picture generalities about the kinds of on-screen sex the world likes to watch. For starters, there’s the above image, a facial morph of […]
We’re not short on New York subway freak-out videos here, but here’s a special gem for your Monday morning, from Russia with love. Or rather, from Russia with VERY, VERY ANGRY. Here’s a gentleman simply trying to use the International Metro Station Stop in St. Petersburg. The only problem is that it’s closed. It’s a […]
The night of October 31, Coney Island barber Donald Franks was returning home from Home Depot, where he had gone to charge his and his family’s cell phones in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. When he walked by a nearby Key Food, he saw several teenagers running away with cops not far behind–and soon enough, […]
