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Jeanne-Claude, one half along with her husband of the artist duo Jeanne-Claude and Christo, died on Wednesday in New York at age 74 of complications from a brain aneurysm. The couple’s most iconic work, incidentally, was probably their Gates installation in Central Park in 2005, but the two had been active since the 60s. (They [...]

As much as ads annoy us if we have to sit through them at moments not of our choosing, when we get to watching beautiful commercials by incredibly creative designers and directors we can’t get enough. Our latest round-up of cool (mostly) new commercials is all about animation (mostly computer animation, but not exclusively), and [...]

The famous clip that featured the debut of Mickey Mouse as we know him, Steamboat Willie, first aired on November 18, 1928, making today Mickey’s 81st birthday. (He appeared in Plane Crazy six months earlier, but that version of the character, considered by many to be more interesting, was scrapped and re-worked for Steamboat.)
He’s now [...]

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 [...]

Did you know that November is National Model Railroad Month (NMRM) here in the U.S. of A.? No? Well, how could you, really, unless you rode one every day or so. Most of us only use the model railroad very occasionally, and it’s generally an occasion for bedazzled wonder. Daily model railroad commuters have it [...]

The movie to end all movies (and the world), 2012, comes out today, and we have to admit that there’s something to the succinct title that makes it rather catchy and epic-sounding. Of course, 2012 is hardly the first such year-titled movie.
It follows a long lineage of such films, including the subcategories of future year [...]

We were recently stuck on an unfamiliar block in a bit of a jam, and we desperately needed to find a phone booth. After searching for nearly 20 minutes we gave up: we were already soaking wet. We didn’t actually need to call anyone, but as far as shelters in a downpour go, phone booths [...]

Last night two of the biggest cities in Brazil (and the world), Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, were plunged into darkness for several hours after a failure at a massive hydro-electric dam. From what we know about urban masses in such situations of widespread confusion, people will either go crazy or come together, and [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday was X-Ray Day, which few people know means anyone in the world can get unlimited free X-rays all day (that is a lie, sadly, nobody celebrates X-Ray Day). The X-ray was first discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen on November 8, 1895, though he likely never suspected the comic and bizarre applications his invention might [...]