FAILE is a renowned Brooklyn-based street artwork collective that travels the world creating buzz-worthy projects. Their most recent installation, a contemporary cathedral in ruins in Lisbon, Portugal, features ceramic tiles native to Portuguese architecture and explores the concept of freedom. Click through to view a few pictures of the project, as well as a short video of the artists in action.
Harrison Krix is a self-proclaimed dork who just spent seventeen months constructing a Daft Punk helmet. After documenting the entire process on his blog, he has now edited down what was an epic journey into a three-minute clip. Click through for video and images of the final product, and you’ll wish that you could party harder, better, faster, and stronger with this incredible helmet.
Angela Rossi is an LA-based artist who, in her own words, takes “recycled, abused, tossed aside, broken and forgotten items and turns them into fabulous new creations.” Earlier today we stumbled across a collection of antique plates that she’s currently selling in her Etsy shop that feature hand-painted pop culture icons, and we wanted to buy them all — especially E.T. Click through to check out a selection of our favorites.
The Old Spice Guy viral advertising campaign has solidified itself as one of the most successful and beloved ways a company has tricked consumers into buying their product in a long time. Things got so crazy in fact that last week he was forced to retire. So it’s not hard to believe that meme-chasers have been parodying the Old Spice Guy like crazy, just hoping to achieve a little bit of internet fame and glory themselves — with mixed results. Click through to view 10 of the worst Old Spice Guy parodies on the internet, and be sure to think twice before making your own.
Most of the stars of Mad Men didn’t have the most impressive resumes before they were hired to work at Sterling Cooper — or rather, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. As struggling actors, they took on roles that weren’t nearly as glamorous as the decadent ad men (and significant others!) whom they now play. Click through to view 10 of your favorite characters before they rose to greatness, and leave links to any early acting gigs we’ve missed in the comments.
Yesterday Terry Richardson posted some pictures from his photo shoot with a mullet-ed Kanye West and his model girlfriend, Amber Rose. While Hipster Runoff recently speculated that Kanye and Amber are no longer together, these images are pretty intimate — there’s even some head licking involved. Analyze their body language after the jump and decide for yourself whether Kanye and Amber are still Facebook official or if it’s complicated.
While the hipster Tumblr meme has been dead for a while, we’re betting on the rise of a not so different substitute: the hippie Tumblr meme. Basically just the same Polaroid-esque pics dripping with (real!) nostalgia and repackaged with a term that doesn’t immediately cause the eyes to roll. In any case, here’s Hippy Kitchens, a Tumblr that reveals how cool it would have been to have dinner — or whatnot — with your parents way back when. Click through and view a few of our favorite photos from the site.
Life magazine ran a photo series back in 1953 depicting the sweltering New York City summer and what the locals did to keep cool. It remains the warmest year to date in New York history thanks to a heat wave that brought temperatures as high as 102 degrees in September. Click through and spend the rest of your day wishing you could run under a fire hydrant like these kids — and perhaps fearing what the rest of this summer will bring…
With the recent release of The Back-up Plan and The Kids Are All Right, and The Switch hitting theaters later this summer, there’s clearly an artificial insemination trend happening in Hollywood — but we’d argue that our fascination with the topic is nothing new. Whether you see these films as encouraging, depressing, or comedic gold, today we will be exploring the turkey baster genre in all its messy wonder. Sit back and get ready for a journey through the land of sperm banks and conception devices.
Last night Vulture reported that Starz would be taking Party Down off of Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” service at some point today. We made it through five wonderful and brilliant episodes from season two before they hit the kill switch. Now it’s impossible to see the current season unless you subscribe to Starz, which let’s face it, you don’t. To make matters worse, the DVD version has an indefinite release date. We suppose that we’re just going to have to cross our fingers and hope that the Party Down movie that the cast is apparently on board for ends up happening sooner rather than later — if at all. (See another of Rob Thomas’ shows that died too soon, Veronica Mars.) Granted, it can’t hurt that Paul Rudd was a producer on the dearly departed series. That’s only one degree from Judd Apatow, who would be perfect to direct…
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