Josh, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The view of the Manhattan underground subway system can be spectacular, if you know your way around. (Photo: House of Hammer/Flickr) […]
With Steven Soderbergh’s quickly impeding retirement, the director is making new career moves — more producing mostly, but also… T-SHIRTS, T-SHIRTS, come and get your OBSCURE-FILM-REFERENCING T-SHIRTS! Basically, he’s cleaning out his closet and auctioning off memorabilia, slates, scripts with notes, film festival badges, etc., at Extension 765. But also OBSCURE-FILM-REFERENCING T-SHIRTS! Have you ever seen the ’40s film noir Laura by […]
American master of analog color photography William Eggleston shot this photo of his camera bag for the June issue of the Wall St Journal. This retrofitted leather number is just one of his three camera-filled bags. This one contains 13 different Leica cameras and a few Canons. Photography is expensive. Eggleston’s photography is expensive. Ironically, this bag of elite film camera equipment […]
Adidas’s Fanatic Premier soccer league pits a host of New York businesses against one other, once a week at Grand and Chrystie streets on the Lower East Side. Teams involved include the Ace Hotel, Miss Lily’s, the Chinatown Soccer Club, and a bunch of others. Why do you care? Because Mother, our sugar momma, has a team, […]
Earlier this week, many were buzzing about Seattle-based butcher William von Schneidau’s pigs and their weed diet. Upon closer examination, it seems that this diet has little to no effect on the pigs. The unfortunate pork-products-in-progress currently being fed mostly scraps such as leaves, stems, and root bulbs. This allows the farmer to charge upwards of $120 for a […]
Inspired by the Renaissance-era Christian art adorning the walls of London’s National Gallery, resident artist Michael Landy puts a grotesque, contemporary spin on the lives (and deaths) of Saints. Seven interactive large-scale kinetic sculptures make up Saints Alive — on view through November. Constructed from fragments of National Gallery paintings and mechanical junk parts scavenged at flea markets, the towering sculptures tell […]
GIF is pronounced GIF, not JIF, no matter what the tyrannical Steve Wilhite says. Just like George Lucas can go back in time and epically fuck with his greatest creations, so can the man behind the file format decide to name it the wrong thing after the fact. Comedian/songwriter Jonathan Mann recognizes this, and wrote […]
Nearly seven months after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc along New York City’s shoreline, there is stil much rebuilding to be done, especially in the Rockaways. Though many damaged homes have been rebuilt, and A train service returns to the peninsula next week, mold caused by flooding after the storm still poses a health risk to […]
After much frustration with her current schooling at Parson’s, senior fashion design student Isabel Simpson-Kirsh decided to “base” her entire senior collection on someone who had helped her get through her schooling with his message. The popular bay area rapper Lil B aka Brandon McCartney has extensive catalog of releases includes a plethora of mixtapes, albums and videos, one that’s seemingly impossible […]
