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Feds defend request for special housing during Burning Man
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal Bureau of Land Management officials are defending their request for special housing accommodations during the annual Burning Man counterculture festival in Nevada, disputing comments by Sen. Harry Reid and others that the plans are unnecessary and extravagant. Burning Man organizers have refused the request, saying amenities such as flush toilets,…
George Takei Is Out for Justice – The New York Times
Photo George Takei Credit Andrew T. Warman for The New York Times You’re very busy for someone your age. You’ve written three books; you have a web series; and your musical, “Allegiance,” based on your family’s time in an internment camp during World War II, will debut on Broadway in November. As a matter of…
The Female Gaze – The New York Times
Photo Beth Hoeckel’s “Lips” (2013). Credit Image from “Babe” Last year, the pop star Rihanna posted a series of photographs on Instagram from a shoot for the French magazine Lui. In the photos, she’s sporting striking tan lines — and little else. Instagram objected, and the photos were deleted. Shortly after, Rihanna posted another image…
Here’s What Happens When Some Yale Bro Steals Your Art
The day before my friend Tayler Smith and I found out our photo series was appropriated into the New Yorker, I woke up to a text message from another friend. We’re psychic sisters; she has a nightmare one night, I have one the morning after. Her message was a two-liner: “I see your imprint everywhere….
Insane million block Minecraft pixel art sets world record – PC Gamer
Thorlar Thorlarian describes himself as a “Pixel Art King,” and that’s not an empty boast. Witness his recreation of this BlizzCon 2010 wallpaper in Minecraft: It’s made up of over 1.1 million blocks, and took him more than 23 weeks to create. Even crazier, he did the entire thing by hand, without the aid of…
Kenneth Cole Personally Replaces Stolen Bag After Reading DNAinfo Story – Park Slope – DNAinfo.com New York
Kenneth Cole Replaces Stolen Bag For Brooklyn Man Thanks to Google Alert View Full Caption BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn man whose Kenneth Cole messenger bag was stolen is getting the $300 tote replaced thanks to the designer’s Google alerts. Kenneth Cole — the person, not the brand — decided to replace the stolen bag…
How Minions Destroyed the Internet – The Awl
Do you know what Minions are? I’m serious. I keep thinking that I know what Minions are, and then I’ll lose three hours on poorly maintained Facebook pages and Pinterest tags and emerge from my trance sweaty, short of breath, and somehow more baffled than I was before. It probably doesn’t help that there’s a…
This Instagram profile is one giant canvas of pop culture | The Verge
If they showed up in your Instagram stream, micahnotfound’s photos wouldn’t look like anything spectacular. They’d look cool of course — bright colors, collages, paper cutouts, and pop culture references galore — but they wouldn’t look amazing. That’s because the photos are meant to be viewed from the artist’s profile, all at once. It’s one big…
The Interval | Kelli O’Hara
You know how when you’re applying to college people always ask you those cliché questions like, “What is a moment that changed your life?” and you think they have to be really big and grand answers like about death or international travel? Then you get older and finally have some real answers, only nobody ever…