I know, I know; can you really steal art from somebody as dangerous and transgressive as Banksy? Two of his pieces, put together during his 2007 project on the West Bank, Bethlehem Santa’s Ghetto, have popped up in a show called Banksy: Original Street Works, at the Keszler Gallery. In the Hamptons.
Being a teen mother is tough! especially if you’re also having trouble finding an outfit to wear for later when you go out with your friends. The solution, according to Jessica Callaway from the US, is to blow marijuana into your ten month-old baby girl’s mouth to “calm her down”.
Sleek, compact design, leather seats, carbon fiber chassis. This is what a baby needs in a stroller today, right? This is the future? Swedish designer Dawid Dawod thinks so, having collaborated with Porsche Design to put together the P’4911 for parents with their fiscal priorities in order.
Relations have never been better between the media and ANCYL followers. With supporters threatening journalists with comments such as, “We are going to beat you all by the end of the day because you are writing lies,” and rumours this morning of people gathering stones to throw at media reporting on the Malema discplinary hearing, the vibe between league supporters and journos is just awesome right now.
I love Postsecret. I’ll just put that right there. It’s an ongoing community art project that started in the States in 2005. Now, after almost seven years of receiving the secrets, Postsecret are releasing their very own app for iPhone.
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]
The president and CEO of Texas Armoring Corporation wanted to put potential customers’ minds at ease about the efficiacy of his company’s bullet-resistant glass. So, like any other sane person, he got one of his employees to shoot at him with an AK-47 while he stood behind the glass.
SABC Probe Finds R1,4bn In Misuse Of Funds, Fraud – The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is investigating misuse of funds and fraud amounting to R1,4bn at the SABC. The extent of the fraud and misuse of public funds comes as the SABC is once again appealing to the government for a bail-out. [businessday] The Fight For […]
You’re not all on Twitter. I get that; I know people who don’t drink alcohol, either, and I don’t judge them for that. To all you cool social media cats, though, this is troubling: Twitter is readying a new ad product that will serve up ads to users from company accounts they don’t already follow.
Where were last month when Jack Daniels and 2oceansVibe treated almost 100 hard working Capetownians to an afternoon of popcorn, whiskey, mustangs and movies? You were at WORK? Shame. Shame. Well here’s another bite at the cherry: listen close. WIN! FRIDAY DONE JACK’S WAY – FRIDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2011 WIN a ticket for you and […]
Two weeks ago Precious Msibi was forced by her HR manager of all people to strip naked in front of colleagues, including males – during Woman’s Month! The strip was done to “prove that she was female”. After assurances by the police that the guy would be arrested, she claims that nothing has been done so far.
Researchers in Gothenburg, Sweden, met this week to launch a new “meat without slaughter” initiative – with plans on being able to release bio-sausages in the next six months. Bio-sausages made from exotic animal cells, too, because vat-grown tiger meat isn’t any less ethical than vat-grown bacon.
A Florida funeral home has unveiled an ‘alakaline hydrolysis’ unit, which dissolves dead bodies in heated alkaline water. Which is, apparently, something you might want to do; the process is being billed as a far greener alternative than cremation, producing far less greenhouse gas and requiring far less energy.
The sex tape that made Kim Kardashian, well, Kim Kardashian has a bidder who desperately wants it off the market. It’s been mere days since Kim’s marriage to Kris Humphries, and an anonymous buyer now suddenly wants Vivid Entertainment’s rights to the infamous 2007 tape of her and Ray J. And those rights ain’t cheap.
Still trying to find your perfect match? Look no further than your own face! Find Your FaceMate is an online dating agency that pairs couples up by matching their facial characteristics to someone with the same (or near-enough) looks.
The Dalai Lama has applied for a South African visa to visit Desmond Tutu on the Arch Bishop’s 80th birthday. He is due to give a lecture here on 7 October as part of the celebrations. Why does he need a visa? Because he was barred entry to South Africa in 2009 to ensure that ties with our key trade partner, China weren’t jeopardised.
It’s pretty neat – the new pen by Wacom draws like a regular pen, but has a pressure-sensitive receiver that records your actual drawings for digital import and computer manipulation. So when you doodle obscene images, they show up directly onto your screen. Welcome to the future.
Foo Fighters don’t actually have to promote anything to get people to shell out cash for their upcoming North America tour, but because they had a fat wad of cash to spend on advertising and some guy in marketing wouldn’t stop saying the word ‘viral,’ they’ve put this video together for you. Take a look.
Huang Nubo, the sixteenth richest person in China, has offered $100 million to buy 300 square kilometres of Icelandic wilderness. He calls himself a “poet and adventurer,” so it would make sense that he’d want to buy the property to develop a golf course and tourist destination.
Hundreds of people have been gathering this morning outside the ANC Youth League headquarters in Johannesburg, following the league’s promise that supporters would behave well in the lead up to Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing. Rubber bullets have already been used by police to contain the crowd. Twitter is alive with reports of violence and mayhem going down.
A music producer from the UK sat patiently for 24 hours while a tattooist recreated a scene from the popular Where’s Wally book series on his back. The artwork features 150 characters in normal dress and historic and fantasy figures like Vikings, pirates, a caveman, cowboys and Star Wars characters. Wally is hiding among them – can you find him?
I’ll just leave this here: A female doctor from Brazil has reacted to the frequent robberies Sobardinho property by studding the walls around her property with HIV-infected needles to keep burglars away. We know this because she’s kindly put up a hand-written sign,saying “HIV positive blood. Do not trespass.”
A picture of a white guy posing as a “hunter” on his Facebook page next to a “dead” black child has – thankfully – turned out to be a fake. The man who calls himself “Eugene Terrorblance” was apprehended by police in 2007 for this image, but told them at the time that he paid the child to pose as his “trophy”.
Recession reschmesssion. Russia has unveiled an ambitious (read: $65 billion) plan to build the world’s longest tunnel under the Bering Strait – as part of a railway corridor linking North America to Europe, via Siberia. Because ships and planes just weren’t cutting it. Also, this sucker’s going to be entirely fueled by green energy, apparently.
This week we take a look at another cult classic dragged from the mists of time, rebooted with some big effects and bigger chests (as many D-cup pecs as D-list names) and presented in a cinema near you, in glorious 3D. Conan The Barbarian.
Scientists have made a unique discovery in the Brazilian rainforests of the Amazon: a subterranean river that flows underneath the Amazon River, some four thousand metres below the actual Amazon River. It’s also roughly the same length of the Amazon River, according to the scientists.
In the fashion world you’re either in or you’re out. And Bryan Boy is most definitely in, what with him being a top international fashion blogger and all. Sunglass Hut, along with Marie Claire will be bringing him to South Africa for a series of workshops and appearances. Details after the jump.
Chris Anderson, graphic design student, is installing 1 000 broken surfboards in the sands of a Sydney beach to inform people of the unsustainable practices in surfboard manufacturing. I’m not sure how breaking a thousand surfboards helps this problem, but the installation looks pretty cool.
The Chinese government, in a not-unusual display of authoritarian petulance, has banned the download of over a hundred music titles from popular online music sites in China.
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]