Oh, just so you know, this has absolutely nothing to do with anything Pussy Riot stands for, except for the blatant hijacking of their signature balaclavas and the “Free Pussy Riot” song Peaches wrote for Pussy Riot. Every possible explanation that lingerie brand’s ad department is seeding into the YouTube comments by dropping the FreePussyRiot.org […]
Sorry, that’s not the long-awaited Bloomberg-Cuomo-Kelly sex tape. But if we were living in China, we’d be very trendy. Photoshopping government officials into pornographic scenarios is all the rage and it’s making government officials upset. This renegade blackmail phenomenon has apparently spun so out of control that authorities in China’s Hunan Province have put up […]
If you happen to regularly ride the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or the Times Square/Grand Central shuttle, Google just got better at helping with your commute. In December, the MTA rolled out an app that provides real-time location data for trains on each of those lines, and announced it would the data available […]
What is a 20-ft long wooden replica military helicopter doing on the roof of a Long Island City studio? Commissioned by Amnesty International and the Control Arms campaign, two New York artists spent three days creating the chopper to raise awareness about a UN treaty that would place new regulations on the international arms trade. […]
So, tell me more about Estonia’s punk metal scene. I mean, just watched meaty men in athletic wrestling uniforms get dangled by one foot each over the Eurovision-esque stage while playing hardcore riffs on balalaikas as two drummers strapped into their vertical rotating drumsets were spinning and spinning and spinning. The gentleman sprouting a wolf-man mane out of his face? […]
In honor of Prada’s new fragrance, Candy L’Eau, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola have teamed up to create this quirky, darling short filmmercial. French ultra babe Lea Seydoux stars as Candy, personifying the product with her faux naïveté and cutesy-chic pastel dresses as she frolics around Paris with two dapper best friends who have fallen […]
Hearings in the federal case against stop-and-frisk will include pretrial testimony from officers Michael Noboa, Kha Dang, and Edgar Gonzalez, three of the four cops responsible for the most recorded stops in a three-month period in 2009. The Times obtained hundreds of pages of the testimony, much of which focused on the reasons the officers might stop a particular […]
Brooklyn Brewery is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary (yey, beer) with a series of limited edition labels featuring artwork by Brooklyn artists Fred Tomaselli, Joe Amrhein, Elizabeth Crawford and Roxy Paine. The Fred Tomaselli could not be more perfect because his signature kaleidoscopic Breathing Head (2002) sounds like it’s about beer despite having an actual breathing head in it. […]
“Are you having trouble understanding artists through their art? Understand them through their STUFF instead.” Art F City has an amazing fresh feature STUFF and this week, transgressive legend Genesis P-Orridge showed them STUFF. It includes a Bronze Lord Shiva, a Tibetan Thighbone Trumpet, a DREAMACHINE, loving memorabilia of Genesis’s beloved “Other Half” Lady Jaye and this amazing […]
The Tumblr “Stalking Guts” does exactly what it says on the tin: tracks down members of the beloved ’90s Nickelodeon game show, finds them on Facebook, then posts photos their former and current selves side-by-side. In the interest of anonymity, last names and faces are blurred out, but it’s still a voyeuristic thrill. What do […]
