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I don’t know what I just looked at. It involved a Nintendo 64 controller, that much is for certain. But then, what else? I believe there were dinosaurs? Gadgets? Disembodied breasts? I can’t say for certain. I just remember a psychedelic fever dream, one seen through a 13-year-old male gaze. Or perhaps a glimpse into the id of the internet itself. advertisement advertisement This is what it’s like to explore the work of Daniel Keogh, a 22-year-old self-taught illustrator out of Bendigo, Australia. His pieces are visual onslaughts of internet memes, famous cartoon characters, and a whole lot of other free-association 1990s kid junk piled in, too. “I suppose I’m just going for a sensory overload, whether it’s by color or sheer volume of content,” says Keogh. “I just want my art to make people stop and look, to be so full of information it’s undeniable.” In another frame, I see a portrait of Jesus next to an AR15, next … [Read more...] about Is it possible to draw the internet? This 22-year-old illustrator gets close

If you’re the scion of Hollywood royalty the way that Willow and Jaden Smith are, the best the rest of us can really hope for is that you’ll use the immense resources available to you to do something interesting in the world. If that’s the challenge issued to Willow–the fifteen year old daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith–then it’s one that she seems to have heard loud and clear. Despite some goofy, self-conscious pretensions (like the ones she and brother Jaden dropped in an interview with the New York Times’ T Magazine last year), Willow Smith surprised us all on Friday morning by releasing her debut album, Ardipithecus, without advance warning (and seemingly in direct contrast to her dad’s assertion that “kids don’t make albums any more”)–and it is a decidedly weird, interesting statement from a teenage artist who has no need to chase pop stardom on traditional terms. advertisement The album runs … [Read more...] about Willow Smith Surprise-Dropped One Of The Year’s Weirdest Records…This Morning

If you’re one of the 250 million people who has ever used Shazam, the app that first gained popularity for helping you name that tune, you may have also used it in the past year while watching television to unlock extra info about your favorite stars and athletes at live events such as the Grammys, the Super Bowl, and the London Olympics. Now, the company wants you to Shazam any TV show you’re watching at any time. advertisement advertisement Starting today, Shazam for TV will support more than 160 channels in the U.S. to 80 million viewers. Whether on cable, satellite, or broadcast over-the-air, you can Shazam any of your favorite live shows (save for local programming) by opening up the app on your smartphone or tablet and hovering it at your TV screen. (You can also Shazam shows you’ve DVRd for up to a week.) That will pull up an index of additional show details, which might include the latest celebrity gossip and trivia for a late-night drama, or the … [Read more...] about Shazam Already Helps You Discover Music, Now It Wants To Help You Discover TV Advertising

Few inventions have been as socially radical as the bicycle. It might not seem like it today, when cyclists are regularly barged off streets by outraged car drivers, but our metaled roads were originally built for the bicycle. The bike also gave freedom to women and made inter-city transport and commuting possible. advertisement advertisement But for the last 30 years, as humans in even the most remote or poorest corners of the world have switched to motorized transport, global bike ownership has declined, according to a new study out of Johns Hopkins University. At the same time, as humans have switched to motorized transport, the balance of human illness has shifted from infectious diseases to diseases like diabetes and heart disease–that is diseases we bring upon ourselves through our lifestyles. Coincidence? Probably not. By charting the decline in bicycle ownership and use, we can also chart the decline in our health. The Johns Hopkins study gathered data from 150 … [Read more...] about Global Bike Ownership Has Halved In Last 30 Years, But It Stands To Rise Again

Photo by Robyn Twomey; Hair and Makeup: Renee Rael; Styling: Tietjen Fischer; Shot on location at Fioli Estate, California Bill Draper’s salt-and-pepper eyebrows grow like weeds. They are the one feature on the venture capitalist’s handsome, square-jawed 84-year-old face that give away his age; they’re also a mark of the Draper gene pool, an optometric family crest. Bill’s son, Tim, also a venture capitalist, has similarly unruly patches. And Tim’s sons, Adam and Billy, both entrepreneurs, have a tamer twentysomething variation. “Those are some power brows,” Adam says of his dad’s and granddad’s facial hair. “You meet them and you just look at their brows for a little bit–they’re like visors.” advertisement advertisement Bill has the air of a vintage businessman. Dressed in a camel-hued sports coat and burgundy dress shoes, he looks like the kind of man who wouldn’t dare enter an elevator … [Read more...] about Can VCs Be Bred? Meet The New Generation In Silicon Valley’s Draper Dynasty