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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 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 [...]

We once went to a concert in the Sydney Opera House, and though the actual performance hall was a spectacular wood-paneled space and the exterior is stunning, the halls and communal spaces inside the opera house look like a parking garage. So we wonder if it really belongs on The Coolist’s listicle of 10 Modern [...]

Given that hip-hop is so focused on showing off the hot gear you’ve got, it’s only fitting that claims to being the coolest one year will sound silly the next. This is especially true with technological goods, which already become obsolete quickly before considering the accelerated life cycles of hip-hop fads. Accordingly, rap is full [...]

Few things stir our nostalgic hunger for the 90s more effectively than the imaginary smells wafting from the restaurants that often doubled as hangouts for our favorite TV characters of the time. That’s just the odor BuzzFeed is after with their listicle of the Top 10 Fictional Burger Joints of the 90s, which features Krusty [...]

No doubt you heard about how Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs picked a bothersome bat right out of the air during a basketball game last week, but mental_floss seizes upon the occasion to remember similar occurrences with their listicle of 10 Times Animals Have Interrupted Sporting Events. We especially enjoyed this seagull’s contribution [...]

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 [...]

Embittered as we may seem, we’re suckers for an inventive and unexpected pronouncement of ever-lasting love. Really. (This also means that we hate seeing a marriage proposal backfire spectacularly.) But we love mental_floss’s listicle of 10 Quirky Marriage Proposals so much we might ask it to marry us, and although we’d be a couple days [...]

There was a time, not all that long ago, when we imagined most of our life would be spent living in a beautiful train, airplane or space shuttle that was finished with only the most elegant and extravagant furniture and gadgets, and from which we would run our global resistance movement while evading the evil [...]

We like that new technology is bringing the rest of the world up to European advertising standards, which go with the “If it’s pretty it doesn’t need to make sense” principle. Increasingly, commercials for products big and small, from every corner of the planet, are doing simple concepts with slick visual style, like those in [...]