An Artist Is Trying To Crowdfund His New Bushwick-Inspired Typeface
Brooklyn-based artist Pablo Medina is currently trying to raise funds to produce and copyright a typeface he calls Bushwick. Yep, Bushwick. "A font inspired by a neighborhood" and the expanse of...
View ArticleSpilling the Tea on The Craziest Moments From Last Night's Empire
After last week's cameo-filled Empire season premiere, it was hard to think of a way that the second episode could come close for sheer insanity (I mean, Don Lemon? Al Sharpton?). Instead, this episode...
View ArticleThis Can't Be Good: There Will Soon Be a "Yelp For People" App
After Lulu, the app where women could "rate" all the men in their life, caused a big stir a few years ago before quietly leaving the scene, new developers are taking a crack at the "Yelp for People"...
View ArticleWatch Petite Meller Star In a Fashion Film Tribute to Vivienne Westwood
While we're in the midst of Paris Fashion Week, a new fashion video directed by French Emmanuel Giraud and starring French sensations Petite Meller and Olivier de Sagazan, is turning its gaze to their...
View ArticleRelive the Heady Days of 2012 With an Unreleased Heems-Childish Gambino Video
Here's a previously unreleased music video for "Tell Me," which was released on Heems' mixtape Wild Water Kingdom. We probably won't get a ton of new music out of either Heems or Childish Gambino for a...
View ArticleNew Kanye Alert: Hear Ye Feature on The Game's "Mula"
If you've been eagerly anticipating Kanye West's new album and are fed up with Fashion Week snippets and VMA speeches, then The Game's new track "Mula," which features Ye, might help you out. This...
View Article"It's Completely Wonderful But Also Kind of Eerie": Jack Antonoff On His New...
[Photo by Daniel Silbert]Fun. guitarist and Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff has put a new spin on the ubiquitous cover album -- he's covering his own music. Well, actually he's tapped some of pop...
View ArticleKool A.D. Forecasts Your October Horoscopes
LIBRAThe difference between the self and the other is essentially negligible in the cosmic scheme of things. The world unfurls itself into ur eyeballs, ear holes, etc. and resides within u. The ears...
View ArticleChinatown's New Release Gallery Opened With a Bang Last Night
Inside New Release's LaunchBack in June, an excited art crowd gathered inside a narrow room covered with floor-to-ceiling carpeting, equipped with stacks of VHS tapes and old TVs, to attend New...
View ArticleWhere Art and Commerce Clash: Thinking Through Non-Commercial Design With...
(BCALLA design on the left, 69 on the right)When pressed to describe his customers, Brad Callahan, founder and designer of BCALLA says that they're "attention seekers, through and through. That's the...
View ArticleThere's An Amazing Weed-Centric Parody Of Jack Ü And Justin Bieber's "Where...
photoshopped photo via Terrific Top 10New York-based R&B singer Tim Vocals has just blessed us with the ultimate pot-centric parody of Jack Ü and Justin Bieber's already-incredible hit "Where Are Ü...
View ArticleWatch Salman Rushdie Spit Drake Lyrics
Rushdie spinning those airdecksphoto by David X. Prutting/BFAFor reason that aren't quite clear, in a recent interview with CBC-TV promoting his new (mouthful of a) book, Two Years Eight Months And...
View ArticleTo Be Black, Female & Corporate: Photographer Endia Beal Addresses Race and...
[photo by Endia Beal via NYT Lens]The internal clash between and individual identity and conformity is a conflict any self-serving young person will have experience fighting, especially during the...
View ArticleBaby Phart: Anti-Flatulence Jeans Are a Thing
Got a chili cook-off first date? A boy who loves broccoli? A lady who loves legumes? Well worry not, because there are new fart-neutralizing pants on the market so that you don't accidentally rip one...
View ArticlePop Some Seeds: New York Has a Bagel Statue
Artist Hanna Liden has finally gifted New York with something the city has sorely been missing, like a hole in the center of its doughy heart: a full statue of bagels. The installation, called...
View ArticleMaybe Jon Stewart Leaving The Daily Show Isn't Such a Bad Thing After All
As Jon Stewart's departure from the chair of The Daily Show -- a position he has held for almost four full presidential terms -- draws nearer, it's natural for nostalgia to kick in. "What will we do...
View ArticleChloe Sevigny Is Crowdfunding Her New Movie
Want to contribute to the next Chloë Sevigny film? Easy, just go to this Kickstarter page and you can help finance the production of her new upcoming work Slow Machine. Shot on 16 mm film, this lo-fi...
View ArticleWatch Nicki Minaj Perform on GMA, Discuss Taylor Swift
In a bit of fortuitous scheduling that likely brought glistening, Nielsen-shaped tears of gratitude to the eyes of Good Morning America's producers, Nicki Minaj performed on the show this morning -- an...
View ArticleDonald Trump and Iggy Azalea Are Ruining Everything For Geminis on Tumblr
So last night I was scrolling through my Tumblr timeline (cultivating my "aesthetic," of course) and stumbled across this timely "Gemini Hate Meme."...
View ArticleCongrats Kylie Jenner, You're a High School Graduate!
A video posted by Kylie Jenner Snapchats (@kylizzlesnapchats) on Jul 23, 2015 at 6:56pm PDTLast night, Kylie Jenner, the world's oldest 17-year-old, finally hit the final (legal) milestone before...
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