Category: Misc.

The 10 year anniversary of the attacks on 9/11 was a couple of days ago, and it was a time when America and the world reflected on the attacks of 9/11 that literally changed the world and cost thousands of lives. Between analyzing the causes, the effects, and remembering those lost, the amount of material [...]

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Belgian photographer Anton Kusters spent two years in the Japanese underground, familiarizing and befriending the Yakuza—Japan’s secretive criminal organization. Few foreigners have managed to earn the trust of the secretive group, but Kusters was given the privilege of photographing some of their most secret rituals.

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London-based artist Stephen Wiltshire is a high functioning autistic who can recreate entire cityscapes from memory alone. He has drawn unbelievably realistic renditions of the New York cityscape with details of individual buildings sketched in to scale from his aerial view from a helicopter.

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New York-based Giuseppe Mastromatteo produced this series of thoughtful photographs, which depict humans as the ‘masks’ we tend to wear when we put on an expression for the public. In this case, he’s depicted them as literal masks.

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A mysterious man dressed up in a radiation suit has appeared on webcams set up by the Japanese nuclear company TEPCO at the site of their Fukushima power plant which melted down after the tsunami. Inexplicably, the man appears to be pointing straight at the camera for a good ten minutes before he steps back [...]

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Japan’s done it again. The Shibuya-based Goldwin has put out a pair of underpants called the MXP Calorie Shaper Pants that helps you to burn extra calories while you move around. The high-tech undies are based on a skin-tight resin material that puts an extra burden on your leg muscles as you stretch and move [...]

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