In "Naughty America: The Game," set to launch early this summer, players will assume the forms of alluring but cartoonish people who meet, flirt and have sex with other player characters.smh View full entry
"Take a young person to see the Modernism show at the V&A and feel fear. It is the most terrifying exhibition I have seen, because it is politics disguised as art. It opens with a word that says it all - utopia - and ends with an unspoken lie, that this nihilist ideology became merely a style... View full entry
Gravestmor offers this hilarious look at the overuse of the word "towards" in architectural theses: Towards A New Towards. View full entry
As Danish products are beginning to loose the stain of ideological ink we must give our readers some food for thought in reflecting on our globalized world, in which cartoons become battle standards. NYT l Lacanian Ink l previous View full entry
In an age of global art fairs and international biennials, defining "Latin American art" is increasingly difficult, with artists living and working in different countries and gaining inspiration from multiple traditions. But this has always been the case for Latin America ”” the... View full entry
Instead of just the straight-down views that distant satellites gather, a small company called Pictometry International has developed an oblique-imaging, geo-spatial system to snap vast swaths of America's varied landscape at a 40-degree angle from a few thousand feet in the air. Wired View full entry
Now that you can direct an SUV ad, how about writing the music for it? I'm not a musician, but I recently composed and recorded a song. View full entry
"She loves hip-hop, decorating her jeans and pillow fights." Meet Mrs. Salman Rushdie. | via View full entry
Seeing themselves as climate refugees, some Tuvalans are already leaving their islands, moving their communities to higher ground in New Zealand. Salon | also, Living on Earth View full entry
"I don't want to sound glib here, but it's the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons." Find out who said that and why, at DefenseNews. View full entry
"As with all homeless people, finding food, warmth and a place to clean up is a constant struggle. But for those who live in their cars, remaining inconspicuous is its own challenge, and though living this way is illegal in most places, experts and advocates believe it is a growing trend." NYT. View full entry
"Setting up house in a North African slum is not at the top of many wish lists. But as the writer Tahir Shah explained recently, his family's relocation from a cramped apartment in London to a 10-bedroom mansion in this sprawling coastal city was partly to help his two children escape the... View full entry
"The V&A's stunning survey of modernism reveals it as the driving force of the 20th century, says Deyan Sudjic." Observer. View full entry
And so, even at a time of continued marsh depletion, pond inflation permitted Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns to announce proudly on Thursday the first net increase in wetlands since the Fish and Wildlife Service started measuring them in 1954. How? Easy... View full entry
When you think about it, Love is just another search problem. Who you gonna call? Google Romance View full entry