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Dumping Trashcans Full of Paint in an Intersection in Sao Paulo
These guys coordinated a large amount of paint being spilled in an intersection in Sao Paulo for a ‘civil occupation’ art festival. Cars splashed through the puddles and spread paint all over the place, making this beautiful mess.
Fashion Scanners: Karolina Kurkova photographed by Willy Vanderperre
Karolina Kurkova taking white-on-white to the next level in this series photographed by Willy Vanderperre.
WE MASHED UP RYE RYE WITH CHINESE CAR CRASH FOOTAGE SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO (MUTE THE FIRST VIDEO AND SHIT FITS PERFECTLY)
Rye Rye + Chinese Car/Biker Crash = What we do around here.
Wolfenstein 3D Released for Free Online
The first-person shooter that started it all, Wolftenstein 3-D, has been released in its entirety for free online. Wolfenstein 3D is a seminal first-person shooter game first released in 1992, pitting the player, a captured American spy, against a horde of WWII-era Nazis ensconced within Castle Wolfenstein. It is widely regarded by critics and game journalists [...]
Fashion Scanners: Nimue Smit photographed by Philip Riches
Nimue Smit nursing wounds and wielding big needles in this series photographed by Philip Riches.
SNEAK PEEK: MICHEL GONDRY MADE SOME AWESOME FRANKENCARS FOR HIS NEW FILM (THEY SWEDED, NOT ‘SHOPPED)
On the other side of the Atlantic in Paris, Michel Gondry has been doing work on his new film adapation of the novel Froth on the Daydream (L′Écume des Jours) by Boris Vian. French blog Blenheim Gang recently peeped all the crazy cars that have been seen on set, and they are they radddddd. I [...]
MCA, Beloved Beastie Boy, Dead At 47 (Fought And Died For Your Right To Party)
Adam Yauch, also known as MCA lost his 3 year battle with cancer this morning in his native NYC.
Fashion Scanners: Marta Stempniak photographed by Richard Bernardin
Marta Stempniak looking sharp and suspicious in this livingroom series photographed by Richard Bernardin.
Featured Artist: LucyandBart
LucyandBart, an artistic collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess, explores the genetic manipulation of the human form through the use of home-made “prosthesis”.
You Should Watch Nicki Minaj’s New Video – Starships (OH BTW, WATCH IT ON MUTE)
This song is fucking horrible, and everyone that isnt getting paid to dance to it knows that. (for realz, MUTE THIS SHIT before you play it HIGH-RES.)
When Nicki sounds like a lunatic, having more fun with her 8 bars than anyone else, making voices and talking mad shit in a hyper articulate way, I really enjoy it. BUT, whoever wrote song this for her should get their legs kicked backwards and have their wheelchair pushed inside whatever Orlando warehouse they were selling ecstasy inside of in the 90s and left to die like Cool Hand Luke in the sheet metal box in the prison yard sun.
FREEHAND JOBS – BIG GROUP ART SHOW SAT NITE AT PANDEMIC (HOMIES DOIN ART, KID)
These artists built out the inside of the Pandemic Gallery into a small town of handpainted signage and scrappy shanty town. Theres twisted versions of a Head Shop, a Brothel, an Ice Cream Store, a Booze Saloon, a Tattoo shop and more! Come check some great work from:
Rocky Banks, Olivia Katz, Aminah Slor, Ben Wolf, Ian Vanek, Jon Bocksell, Heidi Tullman, Kim Seilbeck, Conrad Carlson, Mikey 907, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Isabelli Scott, Rob Corradetti, and Tony Bones.
MERCEDES-BENZ IS THE BEST ARTIST IN LA’S GIANT ART AND MUSIC FESTIVAL, ACCORDING TO MIKE D.
From now through May 6th, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is hosting a free art and music festival curated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys, titled Transmission LA: A/V Club. A multitude of artists, including Ben Jones (video below), Sage Vaughn, Tom Sachs, and more are exhibiting work, punctuated with daily [...]
Blood Orange – Champagne Coast (kinda sounds like a Prince track and you know you girls love that shit.)
If you’d like to watch some pretty girls in their virtual bedrooms, dancing to a song that sounds like chill indie Prince track, i’d give this live action Sims a gander.
(2-D Side boob is something i hadnt seen before, btw.)
HERE’S DEATH GRIPS NEW ALBUM IN ITS ENTIRETY, GIVE IT A LISTEN.
Listen to Death Grips new album here, in FULL. Shit is hardddddddd.
BENEVERYWHERE MADE A MUMMY OUT OF MCDONALDS HAMBURGERS, AND IT’S FUCKING TERRIFYING.
Ben Campbell, an artist known as BenEverywhere, dropped $200 on McDonald’s hamburgers to make a full-scale, fucking terrifying mummy/corpse out of them, to make a statement about McDonalds and Egypt and human obsession with immortality and a buncha other shit, but more importantly just LOOK AT THE FUCKING THING. Jeezus. Top THAT, Spurlock.
THE TOP 10 MOST BRUTAL, BLOODY, AND INSANE VIDEOGAMES OF THE PAST 25 YEARS (video highlights)
Hasn’t it been a while since we’ve had a game where you can actually snipe someone through the testicles, complete with an x-ray view detailing the entire action?
The wait is over.
Aboveground Animation: Casey Jane Ellison
If you go to the website of animator Casey Jane Ellison you’ll find that she has in her crosshairs nothing less than “world domination”, and then if you head over to her multi artist project, Aboveground Animation, you’ll find out that she has created an entire universe that serves as an arena for stories that [...]
‘RIOT // CONTROL,’ A Zine on Rioting for Police and Protesters
This anonymous, photocopied zine includes actual scanned pages from police training handbooks on the left side of each spread. On the right are instructions on the same subject for non-cops. It goes into detail with everything from street-level tactics, to making body armor and gas masks, to disabling vehicles.
Fashion Scanners: Kate Moss by Steven Klein
Kate Moss is looking striking (duh) in this bad trip/nightmare series photographed by Steven Klein.
