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ICONOCLASTS Season 5 will feature Cate Blanchett + Tim Flannery, Hugh Jackman + Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Charlize Theron + Jane Goodall

(L to R) Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron with UN Messenger of Peace and primatologist Jane Goodall in season 5 of ICONOCLASTS. Produced by Sundance Channel and Grey Goose Entertainment. Sundance Channel and GREY GOOSE Entertainment® today announced the return of ICONOCLASTS for its fifth season. The critically-acclaimed program, described as “one of the best [...]

Music video: Heaven can wait

The new music video for Charlotte Gainsbourg’s “Heaven Can Wait” in collaboration with Beck appeared to result from someone suggesting “Hey, lets throw every weird non sequitur imagery (including quite literally a stack-of-pancakes-headed man…mmm stack of buttery blueberry pancakes…) against a wall, set it to music, and call it day.” And you know what? It [...]

Bio-accessories

Australian duo Ben Landau and Brittany Veitch created a series of “bio-accessories” or wearable jewelry and adornments injects a bit of nature into an urban experience and lifestyle. The artists explain: Each piece of Bio-accessories incorporates a living organism to accompany the wearer throughout their day, creating a symbiotic relationship. The human tends to the [...]

Redford Center’s Art of Activism Program with Rosario Dawson: June 9 in San Francisco

Don’t miss the Redford Center’s upcoming Art of Activism program: June 9 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas in San Francisco. The evening will examine and celebrate the leadership efforts of award winning actress, Rosario Dawson (Rent, Kids, Seven Pounds), and two extraordinary Bay Area activists, Martha Ryan and James Burk. Rosario Dawson will discuss the [...]

Green tech finds (6/3/10)

Monster bikes, phosphorous from sewage, and hybrid luxury yachts… your green tech finds for the week.

• Pedal-powered police patrols? Yes, some police departments have bikes in their vehicle mix, but the low-tech patrol vehicle designed by the Hampshire Constabulary and students at the Ringwood Comprehensive School will be used for competition in the upcoming British Pedal Car Grand Prix. (via Greenopolis)
  
  
• Social media and the oil spill: Mashable has a round-up of four social media efforts aimed at helping with clean-up of and recovery from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Jeff Koons debuts his BMW art car

You don’t have to be a gear head to appreciate Jeff Koons’ design for BMW’s 17th artist collaboration, a tradition dating back to the seventies that includes artists Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg and more recently, Olafur Eliasson. Koons revealed the finished car, an M3 GT2 with a warp-speed striping effect, in France two days ago. Koons will donate his artist fee to a children’s charity, and will double that amount if the car wins.

10 thoughts on the separation of Al and Tipper Gore

1. Really? The Gores? The couple most likely to make it to old age on a rocker-for-two on the front porch?!
   
   
2. Not the Clintons? We have to admit, it’s a little refreshing to know that even such public marriages can have their secrets and mysteries.
   
   
3. We now feel truly bad about the number of times we made fun of the Gores’ ew-Mom-and-Dad-are-kissing smooch at the 2000 Democratic Convention.

Frederique Daubal, “Hide and Seek”

Graphic designer and artist Frederique Daubal tackles the overlap between fashion, politics and religion in her series “Hide and Seek.” Frederique cut out pages from fashion magazines, sliced them into fringe and made them into masks resembling Muslim niqābs. It’s a statement on identity, transformation and what it means to be French today. [Via]

Eurovision: There’s a Reason it’s Called Euro-trash

A streaker (center, wearing a red cap and a t-shirt reading “Jimmy Jump”) appears on stage as Spain’s Daniel Diges performs. (Photo credit: DANIEL SANNUM LAUTEN/AFP/Getty Images) So last Saturday I put on my sparkliest pair of pink hot pants, paid a cab with a three dollar bill and sat under a tree full of [...]

PERSIAN CATS: Can music set you free?

Bahman Ghobadi’s NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS continues to play in art house venues across the nation — it’s billed as a docudrama, but I found it to be a fairly interesting amalgamationof drama (some of it melodrama), documentary, music video and almost a fantastical road movie, the roads, in this case, being exclusively in Tehran. Young indie rockers Ashkan and his girlfriend Negar are on a mission around the city, looking for a few things – a way out of the city to play a London concert, more musicians, and their new hustler friend Nader who is busy talking his way out of an arrest. Most interesting about the film is its nearly impossible-to-resist energy, harnessed mostly from a restless camera that swoops, gazes and jerks about the hazy, massive city, and the accompanying edit technique that yanks us around from our protagonists to vendors to traffic to faces to pedestrians and back again. It’s exhilarating to spend time in Tehran.

Last Night’s Party with Conan O’Brien

I felt lucky last night to attend Conan O’Brien’s “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour” at Radio City Music Hall last night. It really lived up to the hype, especially with all the surprises. Highlights included (Spoiler alert): Reggie Watts warming up the crowd with a killer set. CoCo defeating Steven Colbert [...]

Naked News: Soccer vs. sex, free birth control, and sex parties in China

• A study of Germans found that only 5% of them would choose sex over watching a German World Cup final game.
  
  
• Sex education will become part of regular high school lessons in the Philippines for the first time.
  
  

Michael Jordan’s Hitler Mustache

Here’s one for the “WTF” column.  Michael Jordan, basketball legend cum underwear pitchman has embarked on what could perhaps wind up being the most bizarre comeback of his career…the return of the Hitler mustache.  In his latest  turkey of an ad for Hanes,  Jordan perplexingly sports a  Hitler mustache.   Don’t believe it? Take a [...]

Eco-fashion: off the runway, and into the exhibition hall

Green couture has shown up in designers’ studios, fashion magazines, and on runways from New York to Milan. But nothing lends cred like a museum exhibit… and eco-friendly fashion now has one.

Eco-Fashion: Going Green opened at the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology on May 26. If you want to get a look at some of the latest designs, they’re there: the exhibit features work from well-known names in the space, such as Edun, Ciel, and Bodkin. But curators Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill didn’t stop with the design houses’ discovery of “green”; rather, the exhibit takes a long look at the history of fashion’s relationship with the environment.

Australia goes 3D at the Venice Biennale

With 93% of its citizens living in cities, Australia is among the most urbanized continents in the world, and its entry in the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennale, “NOW + WHEN” reflects the growing need for a retooling of its biggest cities. The NOW part highlights 6 of Australia’s “most interesting” urban and rural areas, but the WHEN part is clearly the focus, with 17 proposals that anticipate or fantasize (you be the judge) about the state of Australia’s cities in 2050, many of which are presented in 3D stereoscopic for extra wow factor.

Party trick and math jokes

Your today’s “this talent will help me how in life?” segment spotlights this viral video of YouTube user Booksonmyhead who has the ability to recite pi to 100 digits while solving a Rubik’s cube puzzle and balancing 15 books on her head. I have a neat party trick I like to do where I too [...]

50 Tokyo taxi tops

Los Angeles Times Magazine has a cool gallery of 50 Tokyo taxi cab tops by photographer Alexander James, which are also on view at Ann 330 Gallery in LA. Alexander explains “I want to capture that light play with the energy and bustle of city life and the stillness of individual with it” Which is [...]

Come to “Big Top”: New York’s Hottest New Party

Photo credit: Wilsonmodels

With the extravagantly colorful crowd it attracts, “Amanda’s Big Top” doesn’t even need a carnival décor. It’s already a three-ring extravaganza, with club kids, muscle bears, wandering tourists, and a guy with masking tape on his mouth all convening every Wednesday to put the carnal back in carnival.

But even if it seems a bit redundant, the physical setting is YouTube-perfect, making this the de rigueur event of the week for those on the edge and not afraid to dangle there. Held on the “Carnival” level of Bowlmor on University Place, the bash (promoted by Kenny Kenny and Joey Israel) is set under a pseudo tent in a post-modern amusement arcade lined with Coney Island-style games to work out your aggressions on. Throw a ping pong ball in a goldfish bowl or knock down a clown doll with a softball and you win an assortment of aptly esoteric prizes like paisley dolphin dolls and neon anal beads.

Italy’s Greensburg, Kansas

While Greensburg, Kansas may have fallen off the media radar just a bit, the Midwestern town’s determination to rebuild green after an EF5 tornado leveled it in 2007 still provides a lot of inspiration. While I can’t say it for certain, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that Greensburg’s vision provided a model for the tiny village of Pescomaggiore, Italy.

The Times Square cool down

Before After A permanent solution for the pedestrian walkway on Broadway in Times Square is scheduled for 2012, but in the meantime Mayor Bloomberg and the Department of Transportation are keeping their February promise to enter into phase 2 of the promenade’s redesign this summer. The winning design is Cool Water, Hot Island by conceptual [...]

House votes to allow repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Just in case you missed it over this long holiday weekend, at the end of last week the House voted to allow the repeal of the military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy against gays, as did the Senate Armed Services Committee. It’s [...]

Epicure Office Snacks : Turn junk food into gourmet meals

Emilie Baltz gets creative with junk food found in offices or vending machines. She combines them to make decidedly gross gourmet creations such as Truffled Berry Praline Purses (Reese’s peanut butter cups, fruit roll-up, potato chips), Tom Khaa Ramen (Instant shrimp cup-of-ramen, Mounds bar, ketchup), Mocha Nougat Fondant (Mounds bar, instant coffee, Snickers bar, hot [...]