Igor from Driven By Boredom has created a Google Map of his hometown of Alexandria VA, full of Polaroids and personal prose marking the milestone tingly events of his younger years. Landmarks include The Bush with a Playboy Buried Under It, Sarah’s House, Topless Forest. It’s a touching project (pun intended) and a sterling example (the only example?) of storytelling with…
The KOREANNOVATION trade show kicks off tomorrow. Gadgets that not only make you want to scratch your head - they sprout hands and scratch it for you.
Top reasons to attend and a terrifying video after the jump.
The Real World: Brooklyn. Filming this summer. Brought to you by “There’s no such thing as a counter culture.”
Via Gothamist.
Playing The Building, opening May 31st, marks the New York debut for David Byrne’s sonic infrastructure experiment, one where he uses the water pipes, steel beams, and pillars of a building to produce music.
Kevin Kelly has a great post on the boon of films using richly layered photo-composites to tell their stories. 300, Speed Racer, Sin City. He’s taken to calling them Painted Films, and they represent a means of story-production that owes more to Disney’s Multiplane camera than traditional cinema.
In this week’s VDO we meet DNCHRD’s 6 ambassadors of color. Watch them destroy Uniqlo with their moves, show an elevator who’s boss, and hear a few of the moves you can pull off whilst dancing monochromatically. GRAB YOUR TICKETS, soak up ECLECTIC METHOD’S techniques, and we’ll see you TSDY.
RED, the final color of tickets, is now available for DNCHRD next week on MAY 20th. Tony Schultz from The Winger - who can do handstands - is your leader. This it not a picture of Tony.
The New York Times has a behind-the-scenes look at some of Ansel’s most striking Yosemite photographs. Narrated by his assistant Andrea Stillman, this AV slide show offers a rare look into the methods of one of the greats.
Our friends at Life Without Buildings have brought to light yet ANOTHER striking similarity between the vehicle design of early Star Wars films and famous architects.
UK Band The Get Outs performed within a number a public areas throughout London, then requested the footage from CCTV’s and spliced it together. The resulting video marks Parliaments directorial debut.
Mia Riddle & her band will be performing as a sextet for the first time in history on Thursday. They will also be performing at Union Pool. Check out our review of the new record, grab a keffiyeh for the photo booth, see you Thursday.
Remember how sad everybody was when they thought that was the last summer at McCarren pool?
They JUST announced the movies we’ll be watching while drunk and leaning against a cute person with strange fashion accessories.
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