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A major retrospective of the drawings, prints, animations, videos, performances, set designs and installations of South African artist William Kentridge opens at the Museum of Modern Art today (after stops in San Francisco, Texas and Florida), but over the last few days (and despite an excellent profile in a recent New Yorker) we noticed that [...]

Though we do not have a cell phone capable of using them, we remain constantly on the lookout for useful and clever smart phone applications, in the hopes that knowing more about them might precipitate our being able to use them. Reverse anticipatory psychology aside, we’re often relieved that we aren’t being tempted into buying [...]

As much as we appreciate a clever billboard, there is something very classy and almost charming about the advertising columns that seem, unfortunately, to be more widely used in Europe than in North America. Unreality rounds up some 10 Creative Column Advertisements that make us envious of European street furniture, although we’d like to add [...]

Today is World Thinking Day, a rather broad and abstract holiday that we think is very strange, and which apparently has something to do with the founders of the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. For our part, though, we like to take a little extra time on Thinking Day to reflect on all the brilliant [...]

Every Sunday morning (or early afternoon) we stir groggily from our den and try our hardest to pretend that we will go to yoga class. Then we spend the day watching movies and eating greasy food, which is actually a much better hangover cure. This week, though, we’re being shamed into pulling on our stinky [...]

We can always use a little more escapism in our day; not too much, just a short journey to the outer reaches of the human consciousness and imagination. More often than not, this trip is enabled by drugs incredible and transporting short films. Not incidentally, then, you’ll notice that most of these 10 Surreal Animated [...]

If it were up to us (which, obviously, it should be) there would be an Oscar handed out every year for best onscreen food. Seriously, how many amazing meals have we seen stars eat year in and year out? The set dressers, prop designers, artistic directors and chefs who are in charge of these things [...]

Ten years into this century and we have already had what will likely remain one of the worst earthquakes in modern history in Haiti. And judging by GOOD Magazine’s listicle of the 10 Biggest Earthquakes of the 20th Century, we’ll probably be in for a lot more devastation, destruction and tragedy before these hundred years [...]

This is an exciting season for sports: last week was the Super Bowl, this weekend we have both the NBA All Star Game, and the beginning of the Vancouver Olympics. Though, being from that region of Canada, we are much more excited about the former, we are also reformed basketball nerds and so more than [...]

You would be surprised, we suspect, to see how clean and tidy our computers are given the innumerable things that list experts have to keep in huge quantities. Maintaining a semblance of order is hard work, so when we heard that today is Clean Out Your Computer Day we got a little annoyed: every day [...]