On Friday night, Pier 59 in Manhattan was packed with people who care about design, free drinks, and of course, nice cars. The waterfront location played host to the Lexus “Design Matters” event and featured a private concert by The Roots. They played “How I Got Over,” “The Seed (2.0)” and also covered Sugarhill Gang […]
Back in its heyday, Paris’s famed Les Bains nightclub hosted the revelries of Kate Moss, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and everyone else you’ve ever dreamt of hanging out with. The party was crashed in 2010, when some haphazard renovations led to the club being declared unsafe, and then condemned. The iconic building will regain […]
When’s the last time you saw a traditional music video that made your jaw drop in the same way that, say, Michel Gondry’s “Sugar Water” clip for Cibo Matto did? I’ll wait a minute. How about an interactive video–a little easier, right? There’s OKFocus’s Photoshop-emulating clip for Tanlines, this crowdsourced video made of Vines, Chris […]
This week, Printed Internet poeticizes your dealer onto a popular vending website. Previously on Printed Interent. […]
Somewhere in Louisiana, there’s a home-made drone whirling through the sky towards an unsuspecting pig. Engineers/farmers Cy Brown and James Palmer call it the “Dehogiflier.” When the R/C airplane + thermal imaging camera COMBO OF DEATH spots the pig, it’s only a matter of time before a quick shot from a rifle with a night vision scope takes oinky […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Today, we’re hooking up with UK indie rockers Mazes, who gave us a playlist that’s all over the stylistic map–from Inga Copeland’s deconstructed dubstep to a 20-minute improvisation from folk guitarist Sandy Bull. Click […]
If you’re going to use cookie-cutter digital filters to doll up your shitty photography, why not do it in a way that actually brings something new to the images? Less Toaster and X-Pro II and more psychedelic digital chaos, you know? Turn off Instagram, download Glitché for free, and get to work. Like that app, Glitché […]
To give the amazing skies above his Lake Ontario home a deserving treatment, photographer Matt Molloy began developing a technique called “time-stacking.” The process involves the meticulous digital layering of hundreds of photos, taken of the same scene over an extended period of time. Here are the results — these ethereal dreamscapes, whose exploding beams of light […]
It must be nice to live inside Beyonce’s head. Remember all those “unflattering” photos of Beyonce doing the Half-Time Show that had her publicist running around the internet issuing take-down notices because HOW DARE they show B externalizing physical strain? So she didn’t look perfect in a few of those photos — WELCOME TO REAL LIFE — […]
Last week the Park Avenue Armory announced their selection of artists to participate in a residency within their monstrous Upper East Side complex. These residencies were established sometime in 2010 and include space for the research and creation of new works by each respective artist. Artists selected include singer-songwriter Somi, performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili, choreographers Driscoll and Ralph Lemon among […]