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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 [...]

One time while were riding in the elevator in a really, really tall building one of our favorite jams came on the muzak, and we felt transported to a dark, light-dappled dance floor. We’re not sure the other people in the elevator were transported to quite the same place, and it became clear when the [...]

In this New York Times article from Monday, Henry Fountain takes the recent unveiling of the glass boxes on the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower as a jumping off point (pun intended) to discuss how new kinds of glass are finally making the architectural impulse towards completely translucent buildings a possibility. What would a [...]

Today is Iced Tea Day, and though it doesn’t quite feel all that summery in New York, we’re told that warm, iced tea-meriting weather is right around the corner. To get ourselves pumped for those sun-splashed rivers of iced tea, we’ve rounded up some of the mildly caffeinated, often-too-sweet beverage’s best ads. Not surprisingly, advertisers [...]

It’s funny, this obsession we have with predicting the cities of the future, no? It’s as though urban space is always already outdated, battered, overused and redundant, in need of updating, up-scaling and re-development. Such reverie isn’t strictly the province of the toiling masses either. Architects, engineers, businessmen and politicians are equally prone to dreaming [...]

Some time ago, in an earlier edition of our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays, we looked at some of the most overt, excessive and unsubtle phallic monuments built by man. While the need to put power, potency and might into concrete (and steel and glass) expression smacks of typical late-capitalist chauvinism, it would be a mistake [...]

As we all disperse towards our favored holiday partying and wintering places, our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays asks that you keep your eyes open for gratuitous instances of the most familiar form in modern architecture: the phallus.
As Freud tells us constantly, every human activity that isn’t sex is the direct result of displaced sexual impulses, [...]

In this edition of our weekly catch-up list of lists, we take an especially close look at the holiday gift list trend that is kicking into high gear. With every publication producing at least one gift guide around this time, Listicles brings you the silliest (number 5), most budget-savvy (number 3), quickest (number 4), most [...]