The Work of Mariel Clayton: Barbie is One Violent Bitch (NSFW)

This NSFW-ish collection from Mariel Clayton, a self-taught photographer influenced primarily by Japanese miniatures and her grotesque loopy imagination, takes beautiful dolls and backdrops them against scenes of violence and filth: suicide, murder, sodomy, cannibalism, anything subversive really. The titles are as provocative as the images.

100 Seconds of World History According to Wikipedia Entries

Gareth Lloyd and Tom Martin thought it would be a fun idea to geo-tag every Wikipedia entry in existence and make a visually pleasing video of the result. Sorta makes it look like nothing of any consequence happened outside of Europe until the 1700s, which makes enough sense if you operate under the assumption that everyone that’s written or edited a Wikipedia entry is most likely rich/ educated/ Western/ industrialized.

Julia Roberts Gets Paid $1.5 Million to Smile, Drink Coffee

Starving artist, Julia Roberts, got paid $1.5 million to star in this Italian commercial for Lavazza coffee. Although Roberts doesn’t actually speak in the commercial, she does flash a $1.5 million dollar smile. I’m so happy Julia Roberts got this gig. For a second, I was worried about how she was going to pay her rent, how she was going to be able to survive in this terrible economy.

Enter the Sodge, A Radical New Take on the Refrigerator?

The classic refrigerator experience involves heavy, hinged doors. You open these doors to browse your food assortment and close these doors once you have made a selection. Like all traditional things though, this experience is deeply flawed.

Ted Sabarese – “Office Wear”

Ted Sabarese is New York City based portrait and advertising photographer. He studied at Parsons and describes his work as “clean, graphic, character-driven.” The following gallery “Office Wear” depicts workers with clothes made entirely of office supplies.

Damon Pablo: NYC Street Photographer

Los Angeles native Damon Pablo is a self-taught street photographer living and working in New York City. He uses a Leica rangefinder camera and shoots only black and white film, which he then has hand processed locally for the truest approach to street photography.

Stephen Hawking: God Did Not Create the Universe

In his 1988 book A Brief History of Time, Professor Stephen Hawking suggested he thought God had a role in the creation of the universe. In his twilight years, the physicist has gotten a little more candid about how he thinks this all got started.

Gore Vidal: 12 Quotes

Gore Vidal (1925 –   ) author, essayist, playwright, and political activist, has long been a celebrity on the American scene.  Son of a West Point graduate who distinguished himself in the Army and an actress, Vidal attended Philips Exeter before enlisting in the Army during World War II.

Ofer Wolberger – “Life with Maggie”

Ofer Wolberger (b. 1976) is an artist living and working in New York City. In the following 2009 project, Life with Maggie, Wolberger puts together a collection of images documenting “a character lost in space and time.” The result is something beautiful, and eerie.