When British street artist Banksy released his debut film Exit Through The Gift Shop it was interesting to see how much skepticism it met with among audiences and critics— many… Read the rest of the article: Banksy speaks about Exit, Thierry/Brainwash, and filmmaking

via i love charts

[Editors' note: Since this post was composed at 1230pm PT, additional reports have emerged about Jared Lee Loughner's web presence. Related reading: New York Times, Arizona Daily Star, Gawker, MSNBC.… Read the rest of the article: Jared Lee Loughner: social media footprints of Arizona shooting suspect

Brooklyn based Becky Stern was invited to contribute to a fashion show at CES 2011, so she whipped up this jacket with a built in TV-B-Gone. Wearable tech is cool… Read the rest of the article: TV-B-Gone jacket by Becky Stern

Artist Scott Blake, best known for his Bar Code Art (featured previously on BB here and here), has been working on a new project inspired by the events of 9/11.… Read the rest of the article: Scott Blake's September 11th Flipbook

The Studio City, CA home of legendary bassist Kira Roessler (Black Flag, Dos) was broken into yesterday. Among the belongings reported stolen: her custom bass guitar. While losing any of… Read the rest of the article: Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler's custom bass guitar stolen

The Wall Street Journal notes that cables released by WikiLeaks show the Japanese government repeatedly asked the US for help against anti-whaling activist organization Sea Shepherd (covered many times on… Read the rest of the article: WikiLeaks: cables indicate Japan asked USA for help fighting Sea Shepherd

Adorable! Wait… O_o Get your hands all over one from CatchaKuma for $24.99.

Suck at photoshop? No worries, CMY KILLA is about to drop some science on you with a little help from his crew Masta Bevel, Lens Flare, Filter Phil, DJ Dodge,… Read the rest of the article: Rad Rap Photoshop Tutorial from CMY KILLA

If you are one of those crazy people who believes the world will end in 2012, you've been sucked in by dumb Hollywood propaganda. Or so says civil engineer Harold… Read the rest of the article: Welcome to 2011. You have 5 months until the end of the world.

Spokeo is a new site that claims to not be your "grandma's phonebook." This is because it pulls a ton of info about you from all over the web into… Read the rest of the article: Spokeo may know more about you than you realize

Here are two long-lost Partnership for a Drug Free America produced video spots about Straight Edge. I'm not sure when these were made, but judging by the band logos in… Read the rest of the article: Partnership for a Drug Free America Straight Edge TV Spots

Over at Sleepy City, an absolutely amazing photo essay of the Paris Metro including all the stations you probably know about, many you don't, and some that have not been… Read the rest of the article: Breathtaking photo essay of the Paris Metro

My longtime friend Jason Mojica (Director of Christmas in Darfur) has been working with Vice Magazine on their video series "Guide to Everything." Together, they recently checked out the world's… Read the rest of the article: Vice Guide to the Business of War

Earlier this year I ordered a new bike from Freeman Transport – I really dug their style, and figured the compact-ability would match my travel-dense lifestyle better than a one-piece… Read the rest of the article: Freeman Transport Pouch Set: spiffy bags from hand-built bicycle makers

If you've spent the last 20 years wishing every day you had a life sized (6' 2") wax figure of Dalton, Patrick Swayze's dashing character from the 1989 smash hit… Read the rest of the article: Life-sized Patrick Swayze wax figure: Dalton from "Road House"

Afshan Azad, the 22 year old actress who played Padma Patil in the Harry Potter series, has gone into hiding after receiving death threats from her family. According to BBC… Read the rest of the article: Harry Potter actress in hiding after death threats

I know it's bad form to brag and all, but I can totally kick my son Ripley's ass at Drop 7. Sure you could argue that he's only 10 months… Read the rest of the article: My son sucks at Drop 7

Brooklyn-based illustrator and author (of classics like the fantastic "Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story") Andy Rash has been making super low res portraits that are short on pixels but… Read the rest of the article: Andy Rash's Iotacons are pixelated awesomeness