Craigslist’s “Free” section is home to curiosities of all sorts, from the curious to the mundane. At the time of this writing, there’s rollerblade pads, operetta 78s, and a hilarious, cryptic post both advertising free porn DVDs and soliciting “slim, clean” male models on the NYC site. Animator and free-stuff-enthusiast Kristen Lepore seized on this with […]
This week, the topless Ukrainian protest crew FEMEN have done something quite ballsy, or rather… titsy? As the Pope was reading the Angelus blessing in the Vatican, the activists stormed through St Peter’s Square chanting “homophobes, shut up!” with only the slogans “In Gay We Trust” on their bare torsos. Video is NSFW. Wow. We haven’t always seen eye-to-eye… […]
As far as I can tell, the Guilford Avenue Bridge, a multicolored Baltimore landmark, does not appear in the video for Dan Deacon’s instrumental track of the same name–but just about everything else in America does. Director Alan Resnick takes us on a time-lapsed journey across the country with Deacon, his bus, and his band […]
Artist Adam Harvey–the guy behind this anti-facial-recognition makeup–is back ,with more practical, surveillance-busting work: Stealth Wear, a line of clothing designed to block thermal imaging, a tracking and surveillance technique often used by drones. According to the artist, Stealth Wear “continues to explore the aesthetics of privacy and the potential for fashion to challenge authoritarian surveillance.” […]
If you make porn with two women having sex with you, that’s fine. If you make porn with two women having sex with you while eating feces, that’s illegal. Ira Isaacs, a man from South Bronx, was sentenced to four years in prison for five counts of selling and distributing obscene material after being arrested […]
Sign of the Times is a recurring segment in which we head to Times Square and ask the people there what they think about current events. The hot topic on everyone’s minds and lips is gun control. Do we need more guns to protect children or less guns in general? The people in Times Square […]
Finally, the first full trailer for Harmony Korine’s fuck-up-the-mainstream feature film is here, bitches! Yeah, Spring Break foreve-e-e-e-e-e-er!!! Fuck yeah!!! Sorry. Sorry. It’s been a long time coming. And it came. Here it is. James Franco doing his best psycho-Riff Raff-esque ring leader and Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine (aka Harmony’s […]
Ever feel like people don’t pay enough attention to you? Buy the Deaf Leopard, a CO2-powered horn that’s as loud as a passing train, according to the manufacturer’s site. For a cool $549, this glorious device can be yours, until the cops confiscate it from you. It’s a shame that Christmas has already passed, but if you […]
Art fairs are a strange place to see art. Usually, it’s a fixed-up warehouse setting and you saunter briskly from one cubicle to the next, cruising expensively-shipped art from wherever and wherever-else, weaseling through crowds of journo-types and maybe accidentally stepping John Waters’ foot. The sheer quantity off ART STUFF is overwhelming!!! [Insert existential groan […]
Ever wonder what a giant otter sounds like? How about a striped skunk? Arctic loon? Red-throated loon? How about a Texas field cricket? No? Just me? Thanks to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, a brand new online database of recordings of those and some 150,000 other animals, now you can hear all of those and […]
