Nightshot: June 12th. NYC City Hall @ 10:30pm.
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The official trailer for Kanye West’s video game Only One is here
Showing West’s mother’s journey into heaven, the game first appeared at his Life of Pablo event at Madison Square Garden in February.
THE 7th FROG SEX POSITION HAS BEEN DISCOVERED
In a sexy frog sex study.
The new position is used by frogs that want minimal physical contact. Their hands aren’t even touching — rather they’re probably holding onto a leaf or tree trunk. Sounds fun.
ART BY DAMI LEE for THE VERGE
I saw Pride stand against prejudice in the Castro
by LIZ LOPATTO
This is a community that has been defined by violence. Venus Xtravaganza. Matthew Shepard. Brandon Teena. Millions more, dead thanks to Ronald Reagan’s inaction on HIV. One-fifth of hate crimes in America are because of sexual orientation; it is the second-most common type. (The most common type, accounting for nearly half of all single-bias hate crimes, was racism.) The people in this crowd know Paul Ryan, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, and the other Islamophobic shills don’t give a shit about them.
In a way, the political moves after the massacre made sense: just pit Muslims against gay people and bring down the left by pretending it’s hypocritical to care about Muslim and LGBT lives at the same time. Except, of course, that “gay” and “Muslim” are more like a Venn diagram; there are people who are both. Maybe the straight community can be fooled by the faked grief from a group of people who consistently legislated against LGBT folks. But here in the Castro, the LGBT community and the Muslim community made a point of embracing. The anger in the crowd — and there was plenty — was aimed squarely at bigotry and at guns. When Tom Ammiano, a state assembly member, said “Fuck the NRA,” the crowd cheered. I did, too.
— June 13, 2016
VIRTUAL CLOSET CLEANER
THE SILVER AGE OF TOASTER PASTRIES
Certified Cool And Tasty Blueberry Pop-Tarts With Batman Comic Inside!
Circa 1966
THE VERGE REVIEW OF ANIMALS: THE RED-LIPPED BATFISH
It’s unusual and maybe even unkind to force you to consider the aesthetic appeal of a fish’s mouth, but please, consider this one.
DISHONORED 2
The majority of Dishonored 2 will take place in Karnaca, a blood-soaked city with a distinct Mediterranean vibe, called the “jewel of the South” in the game’s brutal world.
2001: A Space Odyssey looks phenomenal filtered through a Picasso painting
Neural networks analyze the visual qualities that make up the painting, and transfer this onto the film, as easy as adjusting an image filter on Photoshop.
“It always puzzles me when this issue of style comes up, because I don’t consciously have a style,” he explains. “This is not being disingenuous. I simply try to paint what is in my mind’s eye. If people recognize my style, maybe what they are seeing is simply a feeling or vision that is personal to me. Maybe that is why it appears to withstand fashion — because it isn’t a fashion.”
