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Hillel Dov — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:10:15 +0000

Sukkah-Full Sunday

Chandra — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:00:26 +0000

To me, the sukkah is always one of the welcoming signs of fall. A harvest-bedecked tent for the Jewish festival week of Sukkot, you see them set up in backyards, temple parking lots and adjacent to campus cafeterias. This weekend, you can also see them in Union Square Park from dawn on Sept. 19th to dusk on Sept. 20th at Sukkah City. To benefit Housing Works, 12 reimagined sukkah designs will be on display and auctioned off. The finalists were selected by judges that included Ron Arad and Maira Kalman, but the ultimate winner will be chosen by the public, who can vote for People’s Choice Sukkah of New York City on New York Magazine’s site. Its design should stand the test of time, even though the structure itself will only stand for the week.

Uncle Werner’s Bedtime Stories

Chandra — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:56:32 +0000

We’ve brought you Werner Herzog voicing a paper bag and now he (or, rather, someone pretending to be him) shows us just how fraught life can be in an old house in Paris that was covered with vines.

Astounding concept/creation by Ryan Iverson.

Wu-Tang Man

Chandra — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:27:39 +0000

London busker Lewis Floyd Henry covers Wu-Tang Clan’s “Protect Ya Neck.”

Have You Seen This Man?

Chandra — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:23:56 +0000

This has been a bad week for hipsters.

n+1 has announced it’s working on “What Was the Hipster?“, a book on “the rise and fall of the hipster.” It’ll cover what happened to sneaker shop Alfie Rivington and weigh in on that age-old debate, Hasids versus hipsters.

American Apparel lothario, um, CEO Dov Charney maybe got his hands on an advance copy. “Hipsters are from a certain time period,” he told the Village Voice. “The stereotype of a hipster is not something people aspire to anymore. Do you want to be a hipster? Nobody wants to be a hipster.”

And The New York Times is declaring even the word itself over. “In any case, hipster’s second life as hip slang seems to have lost its freshness,” Philip B. Corbett writes. “It may still be useful occasionally, but let’s look for alternatives and try to give it some rest.”

Looks like that hipster remover may be working.

Leaves You Speechless

Chandra — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:39:11 +0000

Sweet, funny, sexy, sad, touching, reverential – everything life is is summed up wordlessly via word association.

“Words” by Everynone

The King of Me Me Me Gets Memed

Chandra — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:00:12 +0000

New Yorker cartoons are famously not funny. Kanye West is famously not (intentionally) funny. Both think a little too highly of themselves. And both are getting taken down by comedy team Paul and Storm in #kanyenewyorkertweets.

The Future is Here

Chandra — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:14:58 +0000

Once Google became a daily and unconscious part of the day, I started getting the feeling that somehow it would be possible for search results to show, well, results…of things that had not yet happened. Ridiculous, no? Maybe not so much. Google (and a little outfit called the CIA) have invested in Recorded Future (Orwellian by way of Disraeli motto: “What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”).

Recorded Future is a search engine (it seems to prefer to call itself a “temporal analytics engine”) with three boxes: What, Who/Where and When. The “When” is where things get interesting. Instead of the usual search field date restriction of the present, the “When” goes boldly into the future to scan everything from Twitter feeds to government documents to map patterns and forecast an outcome.

As you may have already predicted, the future isn’t free (it’s $149 a month).

Spray It, Don’t Say It

Chandra — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:51:28 +0000

Street art gets sweet.

Art by Ack!
Video by PR!MO

David LaChapelle Finds Himself on Photoshop Disasters

Hillel Dov — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:11:31 +0000

Well this is just incredible. PhotoshopDi sasters has been known for showing up some mightily impressive companies and advertising firms. Most notably Pixar and Ralph Lauren have both found themselves on the site. But for Dave LaChapelle do have been caught is simply shocking. See how PhotoshopDisasters “stumped” Mr. LaChappelle.