New York photographer Tod Seelie captures fiery chaos. He’s very good at capturing fiery chaos. (Photo: Tod Seelie) […]
The MTA released this video to commemorate the end of blasting in the decades-long East Side Access project, which will eventually extend Long Island Railroad Service into Penn Station. After about 40 seconds of montage peppered with stats about the massive tunnel-clearing undertaking–2,424 explosions, 200 blast holes drilled–you’re treated to footage of a glorious dynamite […]
Monday, we learned the porn preferences of the denizens of Vatican City, via a little digging around in their torrenting history by TorrentFreak. Among the titles downloaded was TPH: Tiffany Starr and Sheena Shaw (that’s “Transsexual Pussy Hunters,” for those of you who are unfamiliar), which, yes, features M-to-F transsexual porn actress Tiffany Starr. Chase Hoffberger at the […]
Superchief Gallery at Culturefix is currently featuring the work of three artists dealing with blackness in the appropriately titled exhibition “BLACK POWER” — an eclectic mix of illustration, graphic design and sculture. They also have guns. As I walked into the Lower East Side space, it seemed quite casual — people hanging out in the […]
San Francisco’s non-profit digital library The Internet Archive has announced an open call for internet innovators/curators to hold week-long “Tumblr residencies” on their site. 52 selected winners will have the opportunity to showcase their skills by creating custom tumblr themes for a URL (provided by the IA crew) and then posting a week’s worth of […]
If there’s any grown-ass man who can give a pubescent girl dating advice without looking like a total creep, it’s Thom Yorke. In the latest segment of Rookie Magazine‘s (strangely fascinating) video series “Ask A Grown Man Advice,” Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich tackle matters of the heart a la Cosmo Girl — only way […]
You know what this is. You know. Here’s a beautiful little Tumblr tribute to that special social network that makes some of your friends say “BRB!” and return 30 minutes later because he found a friend in the building. (True story.) Behold: Grindr Illustrated. Self-explanatory. Hello, boys. […]
Art21 made a short video profile of Barry McGee and it includes footage of his street-bombing alter ego TWIST painting trains and other things. The clips of him doing graffiti are not exclusive, but the interview with him is. It was conducted in 2012 during his retrospective exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific […]
Yesterday, the City of New York agreed to pay over $365,000 to settle a lawsuit over the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library. When the NYPD unceremoniously raided and evicted the Zuccotti Park Occupy encampment in November 2011, officers destroyed the library and many of the 5,500 books inside. As Allison Burtch put it […]
If you came of age any time in the past twenty years, chances are that your notion of a “dinosaur” was, at least partially, influenced by the CGI beasts of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. Guess what? Remember those blood-thirsty velociraptors, their hungry grunting sounds and that weird dino-language they used to communicate? Yeah, those were […]
