Photographs of 1950s and 1960s Hong Kong
A gallery of Fan Ho’s photos of Hong Kong from the book, Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir. (Thanks, Clarice!)
“Video Games, Misogyny and Terrorism”
At Badass Digest, Gaming Editor Andrew Todd writes about “rampant issues with sexism, homophobia, and racism within the gaming industry.”
Google Streetview Camera’s Museum Self-Portraits
Quartz writes about “Camera In The Mirror,” an Mario Santamaría’s Tumblr art project collecting the Google Streetview camera’s photographs of itself in museums. “Collected together, the Google-camera selfies are at turns unsettling, revealing, and absurd—unintentionally upstaging the art they’re meant to quietly document.”
Female Friendship and the Slenderman Stabbing
“[The Slenderman Stabbing] appears to echo patterns of behavior—belief in culturally-supported fantasies, tightly-cathected bonds between young women, an intensity of connection that has occasionally led to violence—that have occurred repeatedly, in various forms, throughout history and around the world. And they happen outside the heterosexual framework we use to understand […]
A House Based on Biogenetic Forms
Behold the creepily organic splendor of Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez’ design for a house. “Organic louvred panels incorporated into the building’s skin open and close like gills, while other openings stretch and widen to adjust the amount of light entering the interior.”
“Googling Nazca”
A gallery of images of the Nazca Lines taken via Google Maps. (via @mattstaggs)
The Cultural Gutter 