For ten days in May of 2009, the street artist RIPO used news headlines as inspiration for a painting that he then covered with another painting of the following day’s news–a commentary on the over-saturation of media and fleeting nature of news–before peeling back a strip for each day to created a spectacularly striped, multicolor [...]

As far as music video concepts go, when all else fails you can’t really go wrong with nudity… or can you? At least one of the following videos uses nakedness in a decidedly un-sexy way, but we’ll let you decide which one we’re thinking about. Above all, enjoy the sexy people in these 7 Naked [...]

We’ve always been a little skeptical about video game acting, since we’d really much rather play Pacman than have to sit through tiresome (pretty though they may be) interludes with tacky “drama” and trite dialog. Of course, we’re all for the increased interactivity of media, and we have to admit that there’s something appealing to [...]

We love single-serving sites, especially ones that are always adding new content all the while staying within very strict thematic or formal boundaries (like this blog!). It seems like there’s a new one every day (or several), and every week or so one leads to a book deal, so it’s nice to get a big [...]

With his last few albums Jay-Z has really made the transition from being a famous rapper to becoming a full-fledged cultural icon. He’s even got his own hand symbol, like, um… Well, we can’t actually think of any people with their own instantly recognizable hand gestures (help us out commenters), but plenty of other celebrities [...]

Amidst all the gimmicky design trends and hot looks that last for a month or a season or a year, it’s nice to know that certain visual tricks and designs will never stop catching our eye. Print Mag has done a bang-up job chronicling one especially popular design trope’s many iterations in magazine design, album [...]

One day in the hopefully not too distant future, we’ll be able to fold electronic paper in a certain way and it will spring to life with our favorite games animated in real, physical three-dimensional glory. It’ll look something like that recreation of Pacman with specially programmed roombas. Until that day, though, we’ll have to [...]

Sesame Street was broadcast for the first time 40 years ago today, and has since become as intimately bound to American life as hamburgers and guns. As such, the show has had a perfect vantage to observe and lampoon most of the great cultural milestones of the last 4 decades (most recently, Mad Men) and [...]

We really love a spectacularly ridiculous hip hop album cover. You know, one that deploys all the common cliches with copious jewelry, fancy cars, naked women, suits, cigars, a lurking posse, toned and oiled muscles, maybe a skyline, the works. It’s hip-hop, it’s all about showing off and having fun doing it. All of those [...]

You may have noticed that we’re huge architecture nerds, and, to a lesser degree, comic book fans. In a weird way, though, we’re maybe even more fond of the places where science fiction and architecture intersect and help to create spectacular, imaginary new constructions. We really enjoyed Architects Journal’s vidsticle of the Top 5 Comic [...]