January 13, 2012 | New Trends | by Casper Johansson |
From the ‘what were you thinking’ file comes this news report of a man in Fort Lauderdale accused of drug trafficking who turned up to court for his trial wearing a jacket with a cartoon recipe for cooking crack cocaine. Yes, smart indeed.
December 20, 2011 | New Art | by Casper Johansson |
Banksy has struck again, this time offending the Catholic Church with a bold artwork that critiques their stance on ongoing child abuse scandals. Banksy has taken a replica of a bust of an eighteenth century member of the Catholic hierarchy and added multi-coloured tiles to the face — pixelating it — as a comment on what he considers to be the Church’s cover-up. ‘I’m never sure who deserves to be put on a pedestal or crushed under one’, Banksy noted. And who are we to disagree? Read more
November 29, 2011 | New Design | by Casper Johansson |
Oh boy, this is so bizarre it could only be true. Apparently a Dayton, Ohio, tattoo artist has been slapped with a $100,000 lawsuit by his ex-girlfriend for tattooing an image of, erm, excrement with flies on her back rather than the scene from Narnia that she had requested. The reason? He’d recently found out that she had been cheating on him with one of his buddies. Damn! And here we were thinking this was the hot new look for trailer park trash crowd.
November 24, 2011 | Cool Websites | by Casper Johansson |
For anyone who didn’t see the disgraceful incident at Davis, watch on, then you’ll appreciate the searing irony of these images on the awesome Pepper Spraying Cop tumblr. ‘Little did we know that Pepper Spraying Cop has cracked down on so many famous moments in history!’ Indeed. Read more
October 27, 2011 | New Photography | by Casper Johansson 
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These incredible photos of the northern lights over Troms, Norway were taken by photographers Tommy Eliassen, Fredrik Broms, Justin Dernier, and Patrick Pleul, and featured on the always inspiring Lightbox section of Time Magazine online. Read more
October 19, 2011 | New Music | 
by Casper Johansson |
Chinese Democracy famously took Guns n Roses 7 years to complete, full-time. Much has been said of Axel Rose’s obsessive, dictatorial nature, and his collaborators’ unwillingness to work under a despot. But its wasn’t a bizzarro-fascist recording environment which hampered Soul Delay. [download the album via this link] Read more
September 16, 2011 | New Music | 
by Casper Johansson |
Directed by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, this electric video is for the new S.C.U.M single, Whitechapel, which comes from their forthcoming album, Again Into Eyes.
September 12, 2011 | New Music | 
by Casper Johansson |
Confession: before they become too firmly wedged into the mainstream, I was a big Coldplay fan. This new single off the forthcoming Mylo Xyloto album sounds like a studio cut from their debut release, which can only be a good thing.
September 12, 2011 | New Music | 
by Casper Johansson |
Oh wow, I think my face just melted. This video for the Wolfgang Gartner track is about the craziest, dopest, most politically charged thing I’ve seen in a long time.
September 5, 2011 | New Photography | by Casper Johansson |
Photographer Anton Kusters spent several years documenting the Japanese Yakuza subculture for his series, 893-Yakuza: a personal visual account of the life inside an inaccessible subculture, a traditional Japanese crime family that controls the streets of Kabukicho, in the heart of Tokyo, Japan’. Read more
August 27, 2011 | New Trends | by Casper Johansson |
Somewhere out there in that vast expanse of space, there just had to be a planet made from bling. What’s more, it’s in our own Milky Way galaxy. That’s right, practically within reaching distance. A team of researchers have discovered a giant crystal space rock, measuring some 60,000km in diameter (five times the size of earth) and orbiting at a distance of 600,000km. All of which should be more than enough to lock down the ring for Beyonce’s next wedding.
August 11, 2011 | New Trends | by Casper Johansson |
Only in New York! I encountered this guy, and his friendly, well-balanced cat Nicholas, yesterday at the intersection of Houston and Broadway where he was only too happy to pose for a photo in exchange for a crisp dollar bill. Wonder if Nicholas got to spend any of it?
August 10, 2011 | New Fashion | by Casper Johansson |
By their own admission, designers Anielle James and Erin Kauffman of Axe To Grind create ‘jewelry that is drunk tested sober approved’. But who really cares? We’d dig it drunk, we’d dig it sober. It’s rad. Albeit, aptly named. Read more
June 30, 2011 | New Design | by Casper Johansson |
Whoever designed this Afro-themed cookie packaging, take a bow. And make it a long one. Let’s hope the cookie tastes as fine as the plastic it comes in.
June 23, 2011 | New Trends | by Casper Johansson |
Ah, ok. A group of Chinese dog owners are demonstrating their newfound fondness for the canine by dying their pets to make them look more like the exotic animals they will never, ever have. Oh well, each to their own(er). [photos via China Foto Press] Read more
As music-related poster art has evolved over the last decade from Frank Kozik’s exploding grunge overload, Jason Munn must be its best progenitor. Read more
I discovered Henryk Siemiradzki after doing a Wikipedia search on the word decadence and found a whole lot of his art. The detail is insane.
This is really amazing, a poignant and richly textured video and sound piece from Brooklyn-based artist, Alex Itin. Read more
Ulan Bator is so cock-frosting cold, homeless drunks live in hot water pipes underneath the city. Basque photographer Migel Aristregi travelled to the coldest capital in the world to document the lives of the city’s many homeless residents. [read an interview with Migel Aristregi at Don't Panic online] Read more
Bringing statistics to life is not particularly easy, but this website does so with a creative brilliance. Using interactive animation and videos, you can look at a wide ranging set of sustainable global development data as the numbers change across space and and time. It promotes a statistically-founded world view, and somehow makes that fun.
NASA has released some pretty amazing audio recordings of sounds from the moons of Saturn. The weirdest thing about them is that they actually sound like Theremin warbles and echoey whooshy sounds from ‘50s movies about space.
Wow, these rings by Yasushi Jona, intriguingly designed and rusted and corroded to look as if they were found on the sea floor, are really gorgeous. Read more
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Yes, we’ve all been there: the chinese food from last week that still looks edible amongst the bare surrounds of an empty fridge. But really, we shouldn’t. Just let it be. Or College Humor will expose you! Read more
Nerd-attack! Man, this TARDIS zipper robe is so much cooler than any Star Wars crap people are hawking this days. This is for the true gangsta nerd.
Get lost in a daydream or a craving for something sweet while gazing at these cool sculptures by Brooklyn-based WiNK WiNK PONY. Made using clay, tree bark, wood, and mossy moss.
Cookie Boy’s creative cookie designs
I don’t eat cookies, so good thing Cookie Boy’s cookies are little pieces of art too pretty and cute to eat. Read more
A tribute to the movie trilogy Back to the Future and that childhood fantasy, the Hoverboard, and designed in the style of a vintage comic book ad that promises the earth but delivers very little, this sexy five colour screen printed t shirt is by New Zealand-based label Cuppa t shirts. Read more
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