labor day weekend is nearly upon us and, for those of us in the pnw, it means one thing: the rain is coming. of course, it also signals the approach of a little music & arts festival that we call bumpershoot. for 40 years, bumpershoot has showcased "the best in music, film, comedy, spoken word, [...]
we were pointed to this story by david thorne via our ever handy twitter feed. while testifying during his trial over hacking a certain former veep candidate’s email, 4chan founder Christopher “Moot” Poole was asked to define some of the terms the court had run across on 4chan’s boards. we’re still laughing at the idea [...]
the image displayed above was one of the category winners in the 67th annual Pictures of the Year International exhibition at The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. chosen from more than 45,000 worldwide entries, the 60 print and hundreds of digital images “reflect the important events and issues that shaped” the world last [...]
whether you see it as a portent for the coming apocolypse or simply the next step in the castration of modern art via pop culture, a 20 foot tall papier mache bust of Andy Warhol must truly be a sight to behold. created by “food artist” (we use that term dubiously, at best) jennifer rubell, [...]
we love pixar films, especially the way they are able to animate so much, dare we say, humanity into their non-human characters. we once had what could have been a near distastrous date except that we got to watch wall-e, which we absolutely loved. the robotic main character had almost no dialogue and, yet, won [...]