Tiny Australian town abuzz with Daft Punk fever (via AFP)
A tiny Australian town better known for cotton-picking than culture was relishing the limelight Friday as thousands of electro-pop fans descended for French group Daft Punk’s album launch. Though “Random Access Memories” has been available online for several days and the French duo were not present…
Business cards are still a thing, it seems. They add a legitimacy to your endeavors and signals, for some, an arrival in the working world, something that says you’ve made it, you’re real, etc. But the standard business card fare of name, title, address, phone number, email, doesn’t cut it anymore. In 2013, you gotta go balls out.
Mexican volcano rumbles, but residents shrug it off (via AFP)
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano has blown steam for days, prompting authorities to prepare for possible evacuations, but residents are used to their towering neighbor’s rumblings and keep fearlessly heading to work. Popocatepetl, which means “smoking mountain” in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, spewed…
Great news coming out of Detroit: in celebration of its Fourth Annual Women Hip-hop gathering, Detroit’s The Foundation and the 5eGallery plan to roll out some major female voices at the Tangent Gallery tomorrow night.
Grammy-winning musician Chris Brown is scaring children with the art he’s chosen to have painted along the curb of his Hollywood Hills home.
A neighborhood group said the grimacing, sharp-toothed, red-eyed goblins painted along a retaining wall have been scaring local children, and is an eyesore to boot, the Los Angeles Times reported
Atlanta based artist, educator and mother Carla Aaron-Lopez‘ Long Live The Dirty South show opened last week after months of planning and a successful Indiegogo campaign. Curious about her practice, we asked our Twitter friend and the ATL native to document her thoughts leading up to her second solo show opening at City of Ink., a tattoo parlor. Buckle up!
Jay-Z is a lot of things but a time traveler? Looks that way if we are to believe the photograph above. Shot in Harlem in 1933, the young man captured looks like Jigga way before the Brooklyn MC decided to change clothes.
78, 000 Earth weary adventurers hailing from over 120 countries, most from the U.S., uploaded a video to Mars One’s website explaining why they’re suitable for a one way mission to the red planet. One of them is Kyle, a 21-year-old grocery store clerk from the U.S., who says he wants to be “an explorer and pioneer at the forefront of history”.
Radio Shack’s suggestive commercial for the Beats Pill garnered nearly a million views but back in 2012 when the device was unveiled, I thought what their art director was thinking: this thing looks like a phallus. I decided to photograph it. More below.
Punk gets pretty in Met museum exhibit (via AFP)
Punk rockers wanted anarchy. They wound up with a $565 T-shirt. That’s the story told in a big new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York called “Punk: Chaos to couture.” The exhibit, which opened to a crowded preview Monday, traces the unlikely merger of a movement known for primal…
Margaret Groening, the woman behind the inspiration behind Matt Groening’s The Simpsons, has died, according to an obit published in Portland yesterday. The obit revealed that Margaret was born a Wiggum before marrying Homer, who made her laugh in school. All the characters on the show are/were real and lived in Linfield, Oregon. Matt lost his sister Patty in January. 
Back in January, Queens, NY based artist Mary A.Valverde wrote an impassioned letter on this site detailing her life as a single mother and teaching artist working, living and triumphing in New York. Addressed to First Lady Michelle Obama, the letter, received a reply from Chelly O this week.
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