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AAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!! And now, one of the few cat videos you shall ever see “breaking” on ANIMAL. Behold. A cat. That eats. With cat-hands. Like they were human-hands. Eating. Like a human. Very human eating happening. THE HELL. Tipster Leah sent this video of Kingston the cat to us today. My Bengal eating breakfast this morning. This […]
In an effort to better understand the science behind a relatively new form of musical expression, a team of researchers at the University of Southern California conducted an extensive MRI study of the various sounds produced by one 27-year-old beatboxer. The scientists made audio and x-ray video recordings of each sound in the man’s repertoire, […]
Close to 70,000 American youths are incarcerated in detention centers around the country on a daily basis. The cost to keep them there for a 9-12 month period ranges anywhere from $66,000 to $224,715 at the most in California. “Juvenile-In-Justice,” one of Richard Ross’ most socially engaged series yet, documents the conditions of this system […]
Sometimes it seems like every day, a startling new practical application for the sci-fi-worthy technology behind 3D-printing comes to light. This week, it’s in high fashion. Monday, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen (the woman behind some of Björk’s more memorable recent outfits) debuted the above two 3D-printed outfits, a dress and cape/skirt combo. This isn’t […]
If you’ve visited Washington Square Park in recent years, you may have seen a man playing a grand piano for passersby, and you may have wondered who he was, and how the hell that piano got there. NYorkers documented Colin Huggins, the man in question, and his journey to the park, including wheeling the piano […]
Does the New York Times have a rich people problems beat reporter? That job has to be so luxurious. Anyway, the latest article about a problem that really isn’t a problem in context: taking pictures of your food at restaurants is getting tacky. The whole thing’s worth reading, but here’s the most noteworthy part of […]
Some brilliant anonymous advertising professional set up The Creative Confessional, a kind of ad industry PostSecret which allows designers, copywriters, creative directors and video editors to anonymously submit the dirtiest deeds and darkest thoughts they’ve ever done or had on the job without fear of repercussion. The offenses range from the sordid (I’m cheating on my […]
Everyone knows that David Attenborough, renowned naturalist and narrator of the Planet Earth documentary series, is the second-wisest person in the world (behind only this guy, of course). So when he speaks up, the human race had better listen. And in a recent interview with the Radio Times, he did just that. We are a plague on the Earth. […]
So you’re out shopping for clothes and you notice that one of the store’s facial recognition-equipped mannequins appears to be spying on you. The Stealth Wear hoodie you just bought will protect you against drones, but is powerless against these bots. What do you do? You pick up a pair of Japanese professor Isao Echizen’s “Privacy […]
In August of 2012, the Brooklyn Academy of Music unveiled a new set of bike racks designed by none other than David Byrne, each of which is shaped like a letter of the alphabet. The letters can be rearranged to form various words, and Byrne, in typical Byrne-ian fashion, chose the surrealistic phrases “Pink Crown” […]
