10 Bewilderingly Underrated Post-Punk Bands You Need to Hear
| Today’s a day for Flavorpill central to get excited about music, and not just because it’s the day the new of Montreal album comes out. February 7th also sees the re-release of A Trip to Marineville and Jane from Occupied Europe, the two studio albums that represent the career of hugely underrated UK post-punk band [...] |
20 Epic Disney Princess-Inspired Tattoos
| We’ve noticed that people really seem to love the Disney Princesses — whether they’re striking a pose on the cover of a magazine or getting a historically-accurate costume makeover. But we had no idea how deeply that obsession went for some of you until we spotted this epic Snow White back tattoo over on Slashfilm. [...] |  |
Amusing Portraits of Alter Ego Personalities During a Filmic Bank Robbery
| You’ve probably seen Jonathan May’s subjects in films like Killing Zoe or Heat. The photographer’s archetypal characters illustrate a bank robbery in his Heist series, which explores villainy and innocence in alter ego-style portraits. The images are shot head-on, showing how one’s calm and neutral demeanor can quickly transform into something aggressive or fearful. Of [...] |  |
The Best Costume Dramas on Film
| Barbed wit, saucy humor, mindf*ckery galore, and ravishing costuming and production design — we can only be talking about one film: Dangerous Liasons. James Acheson’s elegantly crafted ensembles won the Best Costume Oscar and were a perfect complement to the film’s seductive games and drawing-room antics. The 1988 movie hits Blu-ray today, and considering everyone’s [...] |  |
What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
| Today at Flavorpill, we learned about one young man’s journey to live “Amish-style” for 90 days. We read about Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut, which will feature Scarlett Johansson. We enjoyed this guide to literary Tumblrs. We followed the adventures of the Devil. We voted for Batman. We listened to what Feminist Frequency had to say about the Lego [...] |
Exploring the Thermal Baths of Budapest
| It was cold outside in Budapest on the day I visited Széchenyi Bath (or fürdő in Hungarian), a Neo-baroque-style bathhouse built in 1913. Snow flurries were intermittent and wondrous, the chill broken by pockets of bright sunshine streaming between the cloud cover. It was about 34 degrees Fahrenheit and I wore only a swimsuit, my [...] |  |
Literal Remixes of Classic Atari Video Game Covers
| This one’s for first generation gamers, for the ones who remember Pong, for those for whom the Atari 2600 opened up a brave new world of pew-pew-pew — we salute you… with this parade of parody Atari video box covers. As spotted by Juxtapoz, these classic covers remixed by Mightygodking offer all the heavily stylized [...] |  |
Check Out John Waters’ Inspiration Board
| Is it weird that since it launched last fall, Rookie — a site purportedly geared toward teen girls — has quickly become one of our favorite destinations on the web? Let’s not overanalyze it. Instead, we direct you to their latest feature to catch our eye, a guided photo tour of John Waters’ Baltimore home. [...] |
Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron Will Design This Year’s Serpentine Pavilion
| Since launching back in 2000 with Zaha Hadid, the Serpentine Gallery’s annual pavilion series has featured work by some of the most noted architects in the industry — from Oscar Niemeyer to SANAA. Today it was announced that controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will be reteaming with the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron [...] |
Fashionable, Lifelike Photos of ‘Plastic Girls’
| Roberto Bigano has been photographing the stylish lives of mannequins since 1978. His Plastic Girls may be trapped behind glass, but their lifelike personalities and unique beauty knows no bounds. “I find they tell a lot about the culture of a country and the evolution of fashion and style,” Bigano shares on his website. The [...] |  |
