This year, the annual film-awards ceremony officially changed its name from the erstwhile über-snooty “Academy Awards” to the comparatively simplified “Oscars,” and to celebrate, the complimentary gift bag was reportedly the cheapest in five years, with contents valued at a paltry $47,802. Still, though, we wouldn’t mind getting a consolation prize valued at nearly $50K.
In the late 1980s and early ’90s, the Pixies redefined the alt-rock genre with stripped-down tunes, biting lyrics, and an unguarded attitude that inspired bands like Nirvana, Radiohead, and the Strokes, just to name a few. [More]
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Whether it’s the Dread Pirate Roberts, the Pittsburgh Pirates, or Germany’s newest Pirate Party, you’ll be sure to find one of your favorite swashbucklers in our exhaustive list of pop culture pirates. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. [More]
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After discovering hundreds of early 1900s report cards from the Manhattan Trade School for Girls, Paul Lukas is publishing his findings online in a series called “Permanent Record” on Slate. The written assessments are historical artifacts as well as ephemeral relics of daily life, describing some students as “slow,” and others as “very ambitious,” “irritable at times,” or a “nice type.” (Watch a 1911 documentary on the school here.) In an effort to help these students graduate and get jobs, the girls’ teachers not only gave them failing grades, they also gave F-minuses. And you thought your high-school English teacher was tough. [More]
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Vintage pictures are interesting on their own, but they’re even better with monsters. Taking found photographs, old-timey maps, and other paper goods from the past, Matthew Buchholz customizes ephemeral images by adding delightfully frightful monsters, zombies, and other scary creatures, creating entirely new compositions called Alternate Histories. A native of Arizona, Buchholz graduated from NYU and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His unique brand of art is informed by America’s vastly different regions, from the suburban sprawl of Southern California to the water bodies and landmarks of Washington DC and New York City. In his collection of postcards, posters, and greetings, the artist uses old images as raw material, digitally transforming them into modern pieces that connect the past, present, and future. [More]
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Whether they’re showing off their skateboards, sneakers, guns, dirt bikes, or big hair, the kids in Live…Suburbia! all know what it’s like to be raised in a community that’s neither rural nor urban, but a world unto itself. Written by pop-culture authors Anthony Pappalardo and Max G. Morton, the book is a compilation of photographs and personal anecdotes about the experience of growing up suburban in the last 50 years. Live…Suburbia! features over 300 full-color and black-and-white pictures taken by dozens of near-casualties of suburban decay and modern youth culture. It’s a visually compelling journey into a simultaneously disturbing and sentimental netherworld where being isolated from others usually means just one thing: dying to get out. [More]
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A San Diego-based dad has been sending his kids off to school every day with a packed lunch — and a piece of lunch bag art. Not only do the kids get something to tide them over until dinner, they also get a drawing to amaze their fellow students. From Calvin and Hobbes, Ghostbusters, and My Little Pony to the Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, this father vets the biggest and best in pop culture, all in the name of decorating a little brown bag. Since many others send him works to publish, it looks like he’s inspired fellow parents to do the same. [More]
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First published in 1973 and now back in print, Idols by Gilles Larrain is a visual account of New York City’s art-and-music subcultures from 1969-72. The book comes with nearly a hundred studio photographs of gender-bending performers, underground musicians, and Warhol luminaries, including David Johansen, Harvey Fierstein, Taylor Mead, Holly Woodlawn, and more. After interviewing Gilles Larrain in VICE, photographer Ryan McGinley wrote the foreword to Idols, describing it as an “incredible time capsule” while marveling at its subjects’ inherent sense of style: “The greatest fashion always originates with drag queens,” he writes. “The outfit you’re wearing today was probably invented by a drag queen ten years ago.” [More]
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UK artist Debbie Smyth uses pins and thread instead of ink and paper in her odd-yet-unique drawings. The self-described textile artist bridges the gap between embroidery and illustration, adding a multidimensional component to the otherwise 2D medium of hand-drawn art. Smyth lifts and stretches threads, tightening them and pinning them down to add or decrease tension, effectively creating a new hybrid art form that’s neither fine art nor crafting, but both. [More]
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His work may look like it’s made from Lucite, gold leaf, or even silk, but grad student Greg Dunn actually makes screen prints of his favorite subject: neurons. Dunn studies neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, and a series of his biologically-inspired creations has been commissioned by the neuroscience department at the University of California, San Diego. An amateur artist and PhD candidate, Dunn makes paintings that are often indistinguishable from landscapes, with branches, leaves, and flowers that are actually cortical neurons, retinal neurons, and parts of the hippocampus. [More]
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