We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...

  At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...

In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”  In Sig...

A selection of forgotten homes, Ireland, in various states of decay.

I come from a country where people were living with iron curtain for decades. People were living with a lot of rules and fear. People had to fit and sometimes it meant to hide what is inside under a thick cover. You had to be modest. Humble. Nowadays some of this rules can look ridiculous and Russian people  joke about that there were no sex in USSR.  In conditions when expression of your thou...

Famous man burning as a protest of war, and me cooking a marshmallow

Warning: This essay contains spoilers, mentions of pedophilia, infidelity, suicide, drug use, and abuse. Disclaimer: This is strictly based on my opinion along with the thoughts of others. So, if you liked what happened in the show, then there’s nothing wrong with that. I personally did not. Greenleaf was a scripted primetime drama that aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), following the l...

Slab City in California once called lawless is now a place filled with so much scrap art. With in the area there is a Gallery named East Jesus, the epicenter of artistic wonder. I was able to capture this image of a piece of mirror and what’s reflected which only proves that no matter where you look you’ll come across an art piece.

The number of poems from Seamus Heaney’s collection of poems called ‘North’, which he wrote in the age of prominent turmoil in Ireland essentially in his mid thirties, falls under the umbrella term of “Bog Poems”. The bog, for Heaney, formed an exclusive repository for the Irish past where the swampy land engulfed and preserved the historical evidences of the history of Ireland. ‘Bog Poems’,in ...

 by Katya Kan “This is a body described through the language of surface and force, weakened through a "Single drama" of domination, inscription, and creation.”    Judith Butler, “Subversive Bodily Acts”   Dear Gallery, Congrats on your delicious salary. And your unlabelled sexuality ...  Watch this uncultivated space At your own pace  Mouth-wateringly hypnotic: Your queer narcotic  Those sugar...

A mock-up of my Tarot deck concept, for a classic Rider-Waite with a cute and playful doggie twist. Follow my Insta @m_rose_snow

It is about the Turkish custom of the heart of a person and there is a spot a black spot at birth from in the womb where our soul our essence starts and where the purest of love resides it will stay with you and is there to the end when you die in that very spot Suveyda.

It’s Terminator Two’sday part 39: “Hasta la vista, baby”•All shot in camera except terminator eye which I added digitally along with adding a bit of glint to Arnies other eye.•#terminator2 #neca #T1000 #terminator2judgmentday #hastalavistababy #toyart #toyphotography #scifi #90smovies #toyartistry_elite #toyartistry #toyartphotography #toysaremydrug #toypops3 #practicaleffects #scifimovies #arn...

“They're watching Snow White. And they love it.”•I’m having a Gremlins fest this week this one is all shot in camera, this took some time getting all these guys positioned, there is a tiny bit of digital detail but ill see if you can spot it its kind of an easter egg. •#toyphotography #gremlins #gremlinsmovie #toypops3 #gremlinsart #creativephotography #creativephoto #toyshutterbugs #toypic #to...

That’s the curious pull of Shiloh Dynasty – we can’t square her in our heads because she is a somebody and a nobody all at once...

There is something about a man who carries around a prosthetic of his own head at a gala while dripping in Gucci. It’s not just me, is it?

For the record, I’m not saying Ed Sheeran is abhorrent. He’s fine. He plays an instrument. He does Glasto on his todd and has cool tricks with a pedal

Who doesn’t love a healthy dose of female rage? It’s a real palette-cleanser.

Spotify might’ve legitimised anti-pop for the sake of inventing it. You might ask what anti-pop is. An easier answer might be what it isn’t. Fans quibble, yet they seem to locate a genre that embraces popular tastes while dismissing them.

Tumblr page Heavenly Wings & Heart reveals that one spouse tapped into their past lives and discovered they had two children with Hermes centuries ago

Will Toledo is a furry. He came out onstage in Brooklyn, dressed as Mortis Jackrabbit, a gasmasked mammal with a coat like an old fox. His eyes glowed, plucked from a Fallout dream. Limbering up to ‘Bodys’, one of the best songs by his quite good band, Car Seat Headrest – and we can only assume with a smirk beneath the mask – he looked as if he was just getting used to himself at last. “Do yo...

Musical improvisation with a Selloum (Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum; reclassified from Philodendron bipinnatifidum)Have you ever wanted to make music with your plants? Biosonification is the process of turning biological data into music or sound. Here, I use a midi device that runs electricity through electrodes attached to the plant. The device reads changes in micro-conductivity, or how wel...

Getting screwed by an artist never felt so pricey. But one day, you may find yourself somewhere special with someone who can’t get their hand off your junk. Neither can you. Kissing and blind, you hush them off with a grin. They stop. You know what they’re thinking. It’s the first time they’ve been at your place, but they’re really knowledgeable about you. Sometimes you achieve radical insigh...

 Female revenge narratives are no stranger to Hollywood, but their success is. In 2009, Diablo Cody’s Jennifer’s Body was released and received poorly by audiences and critics alike. The film was first marketed as a sex-filled fantasy created for the male gaze, but its true message is far more complex than that. Jennifer’s Body is a scathing, metaphorical, social commentary on sexual assault, r...

To the vibe that is Japan: As an American, it's easy to fetishize or commodify or whatever when thinking of the Land of the Rising Sun, but perhaps what is most synonymous with it for me will resonate with others. For one , there is a grime, a specific texture: the scales of a swirling, full-body dragon tattoo on a Yakuza boss, green and hazy like a murky bowl of miso. Or perhaps the sleek, fu...

A cream charger is a cylindrical canister or cartridge that’s mostly made of stainless steel and stuffed with nitrous oxide (N2O). N2O accelerates the whipping process and prevents bacteria from growing in the dispenser.These chargers can be used in a whipped cream dispenser to make whipped cream or other toppings. They also accelerate the infusion of oils, sauces, syrups and marinades.Cream Ch...

 L'échange culturel est l'échange d'idées, de valeurs et de coutumes entre des personnes de cultures différentes. C'est une composante essentielle des programmes de familles d'accueil qui sont conçus pour favoriser les relations entre les personnes de cultures différentes. L'échange culturel offre aux individus la possibilité d'élargir leur compréhension des différentes cultures et de développe...