For their amazing Gutai: Splendid Playground exhibit, the Guggenheim Museum now features clear hammocks of bright goo. (Photo: David Heald/Flickr) […]
“I’m interested to explain ‘Who is James Franco?’ and ‘Why is he doing what he’s doing?’ He hardly sleeps or has a life. He just keeps going.” That’s performance artist superstar Marina Abramović gushing about her Friend Since 2010 James Franco. He is “the most interesting actor of the moment” because he’s not afraid of failure, etc. It makes perfect […]
Welcome to the next few hours of your day: Chris Shier created gifmelter, a bookmarklet that turns any GIF or static image into a pixelated, decomposing swirl. It’s grotesque and beautiful and mesmerizing and you should just take a look at it and stop reading this now. Paste the URL of your own GIF into […]
Have you ever loved someone so much that you wished you could just EAT THEM UP, so they could be inside of you forever? You can. In Japan. Sort of. In honor of White Day (Japan’s second Valentine’s Day), the masterminds at Japanese bistro FabCafe will offer customers the unprecedented opportunity to purchase miniature 3D […]
Have you ever been out clubbing with your bros/ladies/bros and ladies, having some drinks, when you think, “Jeez, this drink would be so much better if I didn’t have to drink it. I wish I could just smoke it instead”? Lucky you, Vaportini will solve your oddly-specific problem. The above diagram shows the components of the […]
Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation ordered Fung Wah Bus, the beloved/hated most notorious of the Boston-to-NYC Chinatown lines, to take each its 28 coaches off the road and out of commissioned until they can pass “thorough and detailed safety inspections by qualified inspectors.” Fung Wah’s temporary demise comes after a string of shutdowns of similar shady […]
So, this one time, the Chinese Communist Party banned traditional Peking opera for being too bourgeois. And so, Chairman Mao Zedong’s wife Jiang Qing developed some model operas. Photographer Zhang Yaxin was one of the few people who was allowed to have color film. He was selected to document these very proper operas of very good comrades sprinting very properly across the stage […]
Some of Twitter’s popularity may be due to its multipurpose ability: you can creep on celebrities, make half-assed jokes, talk about live events or participate in #tittytuesday. Curating pictures of college students playing tonsil hockey, however, is a less common use. Enter @columbiamakeout, an account with the sole purpose of documenting photographic evidence of Columbia […]
Poor, washed-up, misunderstood Elmo. It’s been a tough year for our furry red friend: first the whole Kevin Clash scandal, and now, this. Just look at him, all wretched and quivering and encased in carbonite. Just like your childhood innocence. This work of art is the brainchild of artist/3D engineer Todd Blatt, who was inspired one […]
Scattered amid the thousands of pictures of Michael Bloomberg speaking behind a podium, the official Flickr account of the mayor’s office contains a treasure trove of strange, hilarious, and otherwise notable images. We did the hard work so you don’t have to, scanning through 10,536 photos and picking out the the greatest hits. Spider-Berg, Spider-Berg, […]
