Epicly Later'd: Geoff Rowley - Part 1
For part one of the Geoff Rowley episode we went to his hometown of Liverpool, England. We also checked out London and Southbank, and talked with some well known names in British skateboarding. Watch...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Barber Middle School abc13 via Reddit The incident: A kid didn't have 30 cents to pay for his...
View ArticleAn Interview with a Thai Human Trafficker
Noi on a boat Just north of Phuket, Thailand's package holiday paradise, is the town of Baan Bang Khi. There, in a simple wooden house, lives a little old lady called Noi who runs most of the human...
View ArticleRob Ford Is So Awful It's Exhausting
King Robbie and his royal pipe. In case you’ve been dropping in and out of following the ongoing disaster that is Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford, here’s a quick review of everything that’s happened over...
View ArticleA Storm Chaser's View of Typhoon Haiyan
People pick through homes destroyed by Haiyan in the Philippines. Photo courtesy iCyclone Most people weren’t considering a trip to the Philippines last week. The country was locked down as Typhoon...
View ArticleCalling Me a Terrorist Is Not Flirting
The author Karaoke night used to be my jam. Back in the day, my best friend and I used go to the only bar in my small hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area and watch the regulars slur along to...
View ArticleAll the Wrong Moments With Julia Peirone
You could say that Julia Peirone is a master of abrupt, awkward moments. In her series "More Than Violet", the Stockholm-based photographer takes clever portraits of young teenage girls who look like...
View ArticleThe War-Ravaged Cats of Syria
All photos by Lens Young Homsi In the summer of 2012, an image of a cat, apparently wounded by shrapnel, dragging its hind legs, went viral. Hundreds of people commented on the picture in blogs and on...
View ArticleRochambeau Will Never Sell Out
All photos by Erica Euse I met Joshua Cooper and Laurence Chandler, the duo behind Rochambeau, at their Soho design studio in late October. Although I visited their studio at the end of the workday,...
View ArticleThe Hangover News
Tit for Tat Killings A GROUP CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR KILLING TWO GOLDEN DAWN SUPPORTERS The Militant People's Revolutionary Forces were retaliating against the murder of Pavlos Fyssas Golden Dawn...
View ArticleKids Telling Dirty Jokes: Gabriella
Kids Telling Dirty Jokes is our new series that features tiny comedians we found on Craigslist. The second episode stars Gabriella, a Kathy Griffin Jr. who looks like an adorable, little angel but is...
View ArticleOur Work Culture Is Killing Us
Photo by Jamie Taete Once upon a time, work was something you did in order to fund the rest of your life. It was the pain in the arse that you had to endure for eight hours a day, five days a week and...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: A White Supremacist Discovered He's Part Black on a Talk...
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist. - The internet had a nice...
View ArticleScientists Have Identified the Most Irreplaceable Areas on the Planet
Scientists Have Identified the Most Irreplaceable Areas on the Planet
View ArticleThe Creators Project Premiered the New Queens Of The Stone Age Video
The Creators Project Premiered the New Queens Of The Stone Age Video
View ArticleTyphoon Haiyan Turned Me from Tourist to Medic
All photos courtesy of Mark Dashwood When you're preparing to set off on a backpacking trip from Devon to Southeast Asia, you probably make a decent effort to plan things properly. I'd imagine that...
View ArticleAnonymous Spent Saturday Shouting at the BBC in London
Last week on Bonfire Night, Anonymous paid tribute to the final scene of V for Vendetta with their Million Mask March. But rather than blasting Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and obliterating...
View ArticleWhy Were Vietnam Elected to the UN Human Rights Council?
A Vietnamese man in downtown Hanoi, where ever-tightening state restrictions are making it harder for activists to communicate freely (Photo by Bui Hoang Long) Last week, the UN elected serial human...
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