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Moving Pictures
Williamsburg on DVD: Buy it Now
Writer/director Brad Saville's first feature is a dark comedy about seven Brooklyn artists and their intertwining stories. The Collector's Edition DVD is out now, featuring Splice Today's own John Lingan in conversation with Saville on the director's commentary. Buy the DVD now.
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Digital
Nov 20, 2008, 04:43PM
YouTube Maturing?
Part of YouTube's insiduous allure is how perfectly low-fi production values mesh with low-quality video. I mean, most of this stuff you simply don't want to see in high def. That might change.
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Pop Culture
Nov 20, 2008, 03:49PM
Art is life is art is death
Cremated ashes have been made into diamonds and pencils. Now, paint.
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Politics & Media
Nov 20, 2008, 01:36PM
The key to think-tank profligation is through its stomach
Another chapter in the niche genre of "politics & food" commentary.
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Music
Nov 20, 2008, 12:49PM
Another type of mandate
Did McCain's loss signal a cultural refutation of country music? Despite the fact that this article comes from TNR, it could have been a lot more preachy and condescending than it actually turns out to be. Take a look.
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Politics & Media
Nov 20, 2008, 11:33AM
Some not-so-pretty graphs for Conservatives
While not a doomsday prediction, this column offers some pretty sober demographic breakdowns over the past 50 years or so.
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Pop Culture
Nov 20, 2008, 10:03AM
Salon coughs up a harbl
LOLcats are as ubiquitous as Internet memes get. They're out there; you either love them or hate them and even use them as a pop culture reference while making small talk at the keg. And yet, there is a case for their legitimacty. (I mean, come on, Dixit gets the New Yorker's cartoon editor to wax philosphical over them.)
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Pop Culture
Nov 19, 2008, 04:46PM
Dance Dance Revolution: the Musical
No, this is not a joke. And with Guitar Hero significantly affecting the public zeitgeist, we have cause for great worry. Who's camping out for tickets with me?
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Sex
Nov 19, 2008, 02:43PM
Finally: Sober Advice For Men
A dose of dating/relationship/fellatio advice from a woman that cuts into both genders.
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Writing
Nov 19, 2008, 01:51PM
Back to Littler Basics
Books are just too big—not in terms of length, but in literal size.
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Music
Nov 19, 2008, 11:55AM
Mixed-media blues and folk
The duo Quote isn't content to simply drop a record. Their most recent release, The Pace Of Our Feet, includes a 130-page book of poetry, art and fiction. The music is just as eclectic.
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Consume
Nov 19, 2008, 10:58AM
Trickle-Down Bailout
The Web's two most prolific octogenarian bloggers have a perfect solution to the failing auto industry: let Big Oil bail 'em out.
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Music
Nov 20, 2008, 10:12AM
FAST FORWARD: Tape Cassettes Back with a Vengeance
They've been lame long enough to be cool again: here's a couple of cassette-recorded tracks to get your first mixtape started.
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Consume
Nov 20, 2008, 09:30AM
Down the Chippie
Every culture has its own brand of acceptable-only-when-drunk behaviors. When in England, expect to eat the blandest chips imaginable.
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Politics & Media
Nov 20, 2008, 09:13AM
In Defense of Generation Y
The recent presidential campaign upended a number of common misconceptions about the “young voter” demographic.
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Sex
Nov 19, 2008, 09:57AM
Dating Tips for the Unemployed or Unsuccessful
You know who you are.
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Writing
Nov 19, 2008, 09:39AM
Pinocchio Bound
The 1940 Disney version rightfully stands as the definitive American Pinocchio, but a new translation of the original 19th-century book has depths that no movie can express.
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Writing
Nov 19, 2008, 09:25AM
Phoning Larry King
How do you go on when even Jay Leno thinks you're unfunny?
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Politics & Media
Nov 18, 2008, 09:34AM
Sarah Palin is Not Secretly a Genius
And other obvious truths that shouldn’t need proving.
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Pop Culture
Nov 18, 2008, 09:44AM
Tranny is the New Black
Beyonce took a bold step by putting a transexual in her newest video, but is the black community ready for it?
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Politics & Media
Nov 18, 2008, 10:07AM
The End of Empathy
How the media’s oversaturation of violence makes us care less and less about what’s happening globally.
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Pop Culture
Nov 20, 2008, 04:36PM
That tingle? Envy. Burning envy.
Eight of the world's best treehouses.
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Pop Culture
Nov 20, 2008, 03:18PM
Pop cultured sculpted with politics, or vice versa
Chris Kuksi's sculptures are as intricately made as they are bluntly themed. At the least they'll effectively pull you in.
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Consume
Nov 20, 2008, 01:37PM
This spot pretty much nails it
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Politics & Media
Nov 20, 2008, 12:07PM
Lame duck, limp wrist?
The commentary is a bit much, but the clip is certainly disconcerting.
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Pop Culture
Nov 20, 2008, 11:35AM
Bottled Buddha
From Treehugger: Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple.
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Music
Nov 20, 2008, 10:15AM
Go Back to Sleep
Good Graces have the good kind of sleepy quality in their music. Via to die by yourself, here's "Disassembled."
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Pop Culture
Nov 19, 2008, 04:48PM
Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg
Nothing but painfully awkward dialogue that borders on the offensive.
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Digital
Nov 19, 2008, 02:46PM
What the...
From the files of "Too Much Time On My Hands": a real-time Guitar Hero simulation.
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Consume
Nov 19, 2008, 01:54PM
Add this to the expense account
O.G. ergonomic chairs.
