Poledancing has gone from the lapdancer’s world into the frontier of fitness fads, but is here represented for its artfulness in Nowness‘ “Pole Positions” art video. Directed by George Harvey, award-winning poledancer Sarah Scott is shown in black and white, in slow motion, depicting the pole art as one evocative enough to tug heart strings just as much as […]

Make Your Franklin is a community art project inviting artists to change up the $100 bill. The design aesthetic of the contributors comes alive with entries that are witty, subversive and at times downright bold. Whether he’s inked with Native American tattoos, covered up by a gas mask surrounded by nuclear silos, redone as a […]

Instead of taking money and buying jewelry with it to bling up one’s life, artist Tine De Ruysser has cut out the middleman and just turned the cash itself into the jewelry. Her Banknote Jewelry Collection features everything from thick bracelets and pins to necklaces and brooches, all made from folded legal tender from across […]

It’s hard to believe that the above car is for real, but apparently it is for real (although I’ll beleive it when I see it). According to GTSpirit, this is not an official Aston Martin, but rather a coachbuild project by Star Electric Cars France — a company best known for building golf carts shaped […]

I’ll just let Thomas Traum describe this work, aptly titled Boats*Cars*Dollars*Girls*Helicopters*Jewellery*Skylines: “[This is] a typology of rap videos and an attempt to construct the most generic Rap and R&B video out of many. Musical genres are always heavily codified and rap seems to be one of the most extreme ones, each video has similar if […]

It’s perfect that they sell the Loaded Wallet in Kitson — in some circles, the quintessential Los Angeles boutique. L.A.: the City of Fronters. Nobody fronts like Angelinos — we are literally World Class at it. And what better way to front than to have a wallet that looks like a stack of $100 bills […]