Unexpected videogame adverts celebrate women, fashion, and dance
A more fiercely feminine type of game marketing.
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"Backseats in Videogames" finds the serene beauty of racing games
Racing up front, beautiful road trips in the back.
Photo series captures the "existential despair" of GTA V
Grand Theft Auto V is an ugly mirror held up to modern-day America, and it’s plenty dark as it is, thanks. But Danish photographer Morten Rockford Ravn has taken to capturing the game’s inherent “existential despair” in striking black-and-white snapshots with the in-game camera phone. It’s an ongoin
Best light show ever takes place in cathedral
Sometime in the 1820s, Nicéphore Niépce created “View from the Window at Le Gras,” an image from his countryside estate that would later become the world’s oldest surviving photograph. Nearly two centuries later, people snap, discard, and forget about pictures more precise and vibrant than anything
A professor attached emoji to selfie sticks to help us combat vanity
Selfie sticks are extensions of a person’s power more than their arms. They are tools of conquest, a way for their owners to claim dominance over a larger swath of space in the name of better self-portraiture. If you frequently give in to the siren song of thinkpieces, you’ve seen this selfie shtick