BY: ROB HOFFMAN At 9am you stumble into your office through a sea of relentless morning “hello’s!” from cheery co-workers who evidently don’t know how to enjoy a late night cocktail. Though you show up at 9:00, work doesn’t start…
This terrifying new app is like “Yelp” for people, where others can rate and review your life
BY: JESSICA BEUKER We are obsessed with rating things. We rate restaurants, movies, hotels, our workplaces and professors. A new app will let us take the obsession even further—allowing us to rate people. That’s right, Peeple (basically “Yelp for people”)…
A new Airbnb-style website lets you rent an adventure mobile and become a vagabond for a week
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Perhaps you’ve felt the pressure of the rising culture of road-hipsters. They’re exploring the continent while living out of vans or rigged-up trailers and making you feel like shit about the $1,000 you pay every month to…
American universities are using hilariously simple-yet-effective ways of eliminating food waste
BY: SWIKAR OLI A study out of University of Michigan says that just in 2010, Americans generated 35 million tons of food waste–97 per cent of which gets thrown away–making food waste “the single largest component of the municipal waste stream…
Here’s what happens when average people are forced to face their own carbon footprint
BY: CONNOR BRIAN All Photos and Captions: © Neil Baird As we point our fingers, aiming our blame for climate crisis at governments and corporate giants, is there an unseen area that we suppress from our field of vision? It…
This surreal artist ditched his studio so he could paint with light and movement instead (Photos)
BY: ELI ROSS Artist Julien Breton has mastered the art of gesture, working silently in urban environments, using the world around him as his canvas, recording it with a long exposure on a film camera. When he is drawing, it…
Watch James Franco read the Ginsberg poem that captured the spirit of a generation
BY: CONNOR BRIAN The first time I read Howl my chest exploded, the words were a ticking time bomb that sent shockwaves down my spine, it cracked open my skull and out poured out my imagination like a bag of…
A tribe in South Dakota is opening America’s first marijuana resort
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Back in June, the United States Department of Justice granted Indian tribes permission to grow and sell marijuana on Santee Sioux land in South Dakota. The Santee Sioux tribe operates a number of successful businesses including a…
LA takes a radical new approach to combating homelessness—actually helping them
BY: SWIKAR OLI While some cities tackle their homeless crisis by removing them from public spaces, Los Angeles is going with a totally novel approach to addressing the rapidly-growing issue—actually helping them. Over the next year, the city has pledged…
New photo series proves that the hippie movement is alive and well – and as vibrant as ever
BY: ROB HOFFMAN A new photo series by Steve Schapiro shows evidence of a hippie movement that did not die out in the wake of the ’60s and ’70s, but has rather transformed into a thriving community of vibrant neo-hippies…
For under $500, this man built a dream micro-cabin using salvaged materials
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The tiny house movement has been growing for quite some time and is a popular living choice among many, likely because of the low cost of utilities, simplistic lifestyle and reduced ecological impact. Whether you build your…
This tiny floating garden is successfully cleaning the most polluted waterway in the U.S.
BY: JESSICA BEUKER For more than a century the Gowanus Canal in New York City has been the victim of extreme pollution. It’s notorious for being one of the most polluted waterways in all of the U.S., thanks to sewage…
This Cockfighter wants to save the dying sport, because animal cruelty is just “family tradition”
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Somewhere in Ixmiquilpan, Mexico a cockfight could be going on right now. People gather around a cockpit to watch two roosters face off with razor blades attached to their legs. The first gamecock to brutalize the other…
The golden era of skateboarding in 1970s California (photos)
BY: CONNOR BRIAN In the mid-1970s an endless summer struck Southern California, evaporating water in drainage ditches and suburban swimming pools, catalyzing what would change the face of counter-cul- ture forever. Maybe it was the dehydration, or maybe it was…
WOW Air just unveiled $99 flights from Canada to Iceland, and $149 flights to Europe
BY: ROB HOFFMAN WOW Air just unveiled shockingly cheap airfare prices that will allow Canadians to visit Iceland and Europe for less money than it costs to fly between Toronto and Montreal. The first cheap flights will launch out of…
Sex, drugs and open-highway—this time-lapse proves hitchhiking is the ultimate way to see America
BY: ROB HOFFMAN From Venice Beach, California to the coast of Maine—Benjamin Jenks traversed 5,000 miles across America to pursue his dream of seeing the country through the eyes of a hitchhiker. Aside from the obvious cost benefits of crossing…
Take a peek into the surreal custom house of a 65-year-old Russian clown
BY: JESSICA BEUKER On the outskirts of Paris sits a house with a psychedelic caravan parked outside. Lush gardens line the perimeter and the inside has a design so surreal it must have been dreamt up by the severely mercury-poisoned…
This all-in-one sleeping bag and tent hybrid is about to revolutionize camping forever
BY: TYLER FYFE Whether you are backpacking against the relentless winds of the High Sierras or just heading to a campsite a few hours north for a couples getaway in an overloaded midsize sedan, setting up a tent is the…
Sweden just proved that a 6-hour workday is more productive, profitable and less mind-numbing
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Peppered with periodic texting-breaks, daydreaming sessions and excessive water consumption to increase bathroom time—the eight-hour work day is beginning to look more like an excuse to waste time than an opportunity for increased production. In Sweden, a…
Base jumpers hand knit a spider web of highlines dangling 400 feet above a rocky canyon
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Moab, Utah, with its abundance of off-road trails, jagged mountains and rugged terrain, is a dream come true for extreme sports enthusiasts. Every year adventurers from around the world flood the city and take part in whitewater…