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. Since Colorado and Washington passed pro-pot laws in November, the issue of weed legalization in the US has sparked up yet again. On one side we have countries in […]
When Uriel Landeros walked up to Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil museum in Houston and spray-painted a stencil of a bullfighter killing a bull and a muddled “conquista” (“to conquer”) message for the people we were like… ok, whatever. Then he got a hyped art show and we was like… meh, because the art […]
German Designer Aslan Malik created this badass line of dollar bills beautified with some of DC’s greatest heroes–Ben Franklin becomes the Green Lantern, Abe Lincoln is the Flash, Andrew Jackson makes quite a fetching Wonder Woman, et cetera. Next I want to see Aztek on a Peso and Super-Chief on a Buffalo Nickel. Check out […]
“If anyone lays his hand on me, I’ll cut it off,” starts the trailer for Cairo 678, a film that seems very timely and yet, very late. Follow the lives of three Cairene women who experience and finally confront sexual harassment — and frankly, assault — in their daily lives and how these real-life-based incidents led to Egypt’s first anti-harassment […]
On Tuesday afternoon, Deadspin reported on a hawk that was perched outside their Manhattan office. It was spotted on the fire escape of Soho rodent farm and hip hotel the Bowery House, lazily stalking a veritable rat army below that was parading back and forth, practically begging to be eaten: There were rats running everywhere […]
As if regular cockroaches weren’t awful enough, a professor at University of California, Berkley has created the VELOCIRoACH, a six-legged cardboard robot modeled on roach anatomy that can run at 2.7 meters per second–26 times the length of its body–making it the second-fastest self-propelled robot on record. Check it out, skittering around disgustingly, in the […]
Pamela Geller has a history of running ugly, hateful anti-Muslim ads around the New York City subway system, and New Yorkers have a history of defacing, modifying, and otherwise beautifying them. Last month, the right-wing blogger unveiled a brand-new series of ads, featuring images of the burning Twin Towers next to passages from the Qur’an. […]
It’s “lipstick for the between the legs,” a chair-tub, a floating bed and Jacolby Satterwhite’s mother drew these “products” as part of her treatment for schizophrenia, the Gallerist explains. It’s all manifested inside a unhinged CGI world and paired with intimate family photographs. And so, the 26-year-old New York artist Jacolby Satterwhite makes a solo debut at the Monya Rowe Gallery. When I […]
At age 10, Willow Smith recorded the buoyant, world-beating pop-rap anthem “Whip My Hair.” Now, two years later, she’s already entered her serious-second-album phase with “Sugar and Spice,” a really sad song about not knowing who you are, which heavily samples Radiohead’s “Codex,” a really sad song about yearning for innocence (and probably also death?) […]
I know it’s unscience-like to gush over how trippy the Moon looks like in this visualisation of its gravitational field, measured by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL). I’ve been informed that only stoned teenagers giggle at the psychedelic visual coolness of fractals, so I can’t get too excited about this map of the most […]
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