Lego Lost at Sea: Childhood Treasures Washed up around the World
You can find a great many objects spewed up onto modern day beaches: whiskey bottles, lost shoes, scuba tanks, decomposing whales; yet as Herman Melville expressed in…
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The surprising academic origins of memes
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Instagram is making you a worse tourist
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Trillions of cigarette butts are littered each year and it’s damaging environment
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Ancient Tattooing in Polynesia: World’s oldest toolkit found in Tonga
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Brutalism in Tangier, Morocco’s most artistic city
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Tea and Heroin with a Tribal Chief in Al Qaeda Territory
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Collage art and activism in Chile: Instagram posts building on the legacy of Latin American ‘mail art’
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River in China Mysteriously Turns Red Overnight
China is a land of wonders (and counterfeits products). A river in eastern china has mysteriously morphed to a rich crimson. Locals said the river…
Russia is Furious Over Soviet Monument Vandalization in Bulgaria
According to The Moscow Times, Russia is demanding that Bulgaria try harder to prevent vandalism of Soviet monuments. Russian officials are furious over Bulgarians vandalizing Soviet-era monuments to look…
Death Grips Rocks Itself into Early Grave
Where to start? Listening to Death Grips is an experience not unlike the bad trip you had where you knew for a fact you…
Why UK Tattoo Shops Should Embrace Friday the 13th
Hollywood California, Friday night, June 13th 2014. Amongst the dressed up boys and girls ready to hit the next bar or club, or the…
Stream the new Death From Above 1979 track – “Trainwreck 1979”
It’s been ten years since “You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine” was released and a further three years since the Canadian noise pop two…
New Music: FKA Twigs – Ultraviolet (Insightful Fondle)
In seeming celebration of Gloucestershire-born music artist FKA Twigs releasing some new beguiling, silken R&B material, Californian electronic producer Matthew Suggett aka Insightful has given…
Our First Friend: What Happened to MySpace Tom?
For those of you who were really, really late to the social media party, allow me to introduce Tom Anderson, better known as MySpace…
Stream Grimes’ new Track ‘Go’ featuring Blood Diamonds
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Grimes. However the wait is over and her new single ‘Go’ featuring Blood Diamonds is available to…
London’s First Indoor Skate Park Opens Under Waterloo Station
The infamous Old Vic Tunnels under London’s Waterloo Station are now home to the city’s first indoor skate park with the opening of House of Vans,…
The Pugs of Westeros: Three Pooches Play the Game of Bones
If you’ve been dying to see your favourite Game of Thrones character anthropo-morphed, here is your chance. Three pugs, Roxy, Blue, and Bono, who belong…
Lana Del Rey, ‘Ultraviolence’ Review
When the video for her debut single ‘Video Games’ was released back in late 2011, Lana Del Rey went from being an almost complete…
Orphan Black Sets the Scene for Current Television
If you’re like me, you count the days between seasons of Game of Thrones. You binge watch entire seasons of Orange is the New…
New Music: Blonde Redhead’s album Barragán out September 2nd
Forward thinking alt-rockers Blonde Redhead are set to release their 9th album, Barragán on September 2nd. If this taster is anything to go…
And Some Breakfast Art.
It’s cool what you can do with cornflakes these days. Sarah Rosado, an illustrator and photographer based in New York, has created portraits of musicians…
Displaced in Time: London’s Historical Paintings in Google Street View
Redditor Shystone has laid historical paintings of London over modern day Google Street View photographs to create a series of images that bring the past…
Musings on the Origin of Nature: Transarquitetonica by Henrique Oliveira.
Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira has come up with his new artwork called Transarquitetonica. Like his previous works, the installation was built from ‘tapumes’, which reference the…
SBTRKT ft. Sampha – “Temporary View”
British dance producer SBTRKT, aka, Aaron Jerome, new track “Temporary View” reunites him with old collaborator Sampha. Sampha’s unique vocal completely terraforms the landscape of the track…
John Wizards – John Wizards (2013)
Over the past year, since John Wizards’ self-titled album debuted via Planet Mu in South Africa it has often been lauded for its lulling,…
Stream Throwing Snow’s debut LP ‘Mosaic’ here
‘Mosaic’ is the debut LP from Throwing Snow, released on Houndstooth on June 2nd 2014. Available from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/iTunesMosaic and the Houndstooth store: http://bit.ly/MosaicLP…