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The New York Times has got the scoop for you. It turns out that living costs in Manhattan are more expensive than other parts of the country, like, for example, Kansas. This revelation really sucks for Manhattan’s middle class, because now they no longer exist, according to the Times. Rest in peace, middle class. The […]
In the market for some new digs? Check out this 8,200 square foot TriBeCa maisonette, complete with three floors, 19th century adornments, double floor ceilings, factory windows and an original student-era Keith Haring mural. Yep, and it can all be yours — for just $11.75 million. The sprawling mural was painted by Haring in 1978, […]
Recently, American hero Lance Armstrong finally owned up to taking performance enhancing drugs, an explosive tidbit that virtually everyone in the cycling world already suspected, making it the sporty equivalent of OJ admitting murder. In a highly orchestrated PR move for reasons still unknown, the athlete did a face-to-face interview with Oprah and talked about […]
When the internet isn’t busy sharing weird porn and cats, it can fulfill some cool goals. Last August, Kim Suozzi wrote a post on Reddit explaining her story: She was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and had only six to ten months left to live. As a believer in cryonics, Suozzi wished to raise […]
Twenty-seven years after the Chernobyl disaster, researchers are surprised to find that animals in the fall out zone don’t actually glow in the dark. Mary Mycio, author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, spent several months wandering through the exclusion zone, the evacuated area hit hardest by the fall out, and calls it a […]
Mmm… Nothing like a little eye candy to get you through a case of the Mondays! Professional junk hoarder/pop artist Jason Mecier, who recently be-gifted mankind with his trash-tacular Honey Boo-Boo collage, will have you drooling over his latest meta-masterpiece: A portrait of Channing Tatum as lovable silver-screen stripper Magic Mike, constructed entirely out of Mike […]
A Bulgarian couple in Queens with dreams of grad school are generating income by giving people the opportunity to rent out their faces to say whatever you want. For $99 a day, you tell Lou Milonov or Vessy Angelova what you want them to paint on their cheeks. (You can choose to buy Milonov’s or […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, net artist Anthony Antonellis talks about the creation of his 3d Porn HD with Retina Display. You too can be in porn… without being in porn! This is very NSFW. Obviously. You can see Anthony’s work right now at the […]
For its latest art sale, online gallery Dirty Pilot has curated a show featuring black book pages from some of graffiti’s most legendary pioneers and train painters. With work from the likes of STAY HIGH 149 (RIP), SEEN, CES, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, GHOST, COPE2, and others, no introductions are really necessary. The pages range in […]
Today, as DC hosts Obama’s Inauguration (yey, it’s not the other guy, yey!), we bring you this very Presidential time-lapse, made for the occasion. Behold, Chicago-based artist Jeremy Tubbs‘ erratic flip-book of 2,500+ photographs of the president, dated January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2012, collected “from the internet” and arranged chronologically so you can watch him… get […]
