We don’t have any more rock stars. Sorry kids, thems the facts. Sure we have plenty of fame-reluctant indie bands floating around, talentless attention-starved pop stars clogging the airwaves, and more than enough material-obsessed rappers to fill the Mall of America, but we don’t have any Rock Stars. You know, guys like David Lee Roth […]

Remember in 2007 when Damien Hirst took that skull and encrusted it with a bajillion diamonds, and then put it up for sale for $100,000,000? And then remember how nobody bought it, and then at the last second a “mystery” buyer came out of nowhere and salvaged the value of his entire oeuvre bought it? […]

You know that when Tom Ford and Terry Richardson collaborate on a photo shoot that some magic is going to happen. Such is the case with this Western-themed shoot highlighting Ford’s clothing and shot by Richardson for January’s issue of Vogue Paris. Starring supermodels Crystal Renn, Eniko Mihalik and Abbey Lee Kershaw (and styled by […]

In the age of Craigslist and eBay, when I hear the terms “interactive” and “past, present, and future users” associated with a chair, I immediately think it’s creative advertising for a used piece of junk. That was before I was introduced to David Lee’s interactive Continual Chair. Lee’s vision is to transform this ‘common object […]

Last week we previewed the highly anticipated 2011 Pirelli Calender, and this week the Italian performance tire manufacturer released a video showing the Making Of process behind the calender. Featuring interviews with this year’s chosen photographer and curator Karl Lagerfeld, as well as interviews with models Daria Werboy and Abbey Lee Kershaw and actress Julianne […]

Today in Moscow Karl Lagerfeld unveiled the first few calender images from Italian tire giant Pirelli — whose limited edition creation has been one of the most coveted calenders by straight men everywhere since 1964. As is the case every year Pirelli commissions a new photographer to curate the calender, and this year Lagerfeld takes […]

At first I was really confused about this documentary, because I couldn’t figure out if the death scenes depicted in these dollhouses were recreations of real murders, or simply the manifestations of someone’s really fucked up imagination. Turns out, it’s both: “The new documentary film, Of Dolls and Murder, explores our collective fascination with forensics […]

The San Diego Comic Con is quite unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before, be thee commoner, X-Man, vampire, mutilated zombie, Star Wars cretin or garden variety fanboy. It is the ne plus ultra Mecca for geeks worldwide — but you don’t need me to tell you that. We attended it last week and had 3 […]