BY: DANIKA MOIR Images by Oliver Wainwright Since the 1950s North Korea has maintained complete cultural isolation. From the 14th to 20th century Korea followed a policy of isolationism, believing that their culture was superior. When the country split into…
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Watch what happens when people are told they are beautiful from a stranger
BY: JESSICA BEUKER How do you react when a stranger calls you beautiful? Do you kindly and humbly thank them for the compliment, or do you laugh, because you think they must be joking. Maybe you blush and shy away…
Children with Down Syndrome transform into iconic art through this incredible photo series
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Often people with disabilities are only seen as their disability. This photo series featuring children with Down Syndrome allows us to see them as so much more. Soela Zani, an Albanian photographer has children with Down Syndrome…
There’s an entire religion inspired by The Dude from The Big Lebowski
BY: TREVOR HEWITT In a material based society, so much emphasis is placed on the accumulation of physical wealth. Well, say what you will about the tenants of Capitalism, at least it’s an ethos. But not for all. Dudeism is…
Cat Cafés are saving lives in the most adorable way possible
BY: REGAN MCNEILL The whole concept of a cat café was literally foreign to me until I passed a store window filled with frisky felines playing with one another. I thought that maybe I was looking at a pet shop,…
Watch Pussy Riot’s controversial new video, full of riots, rebellion and police brutality.
BY: ROB HOFFMAN “Fuck the police. Like we are in Greece.” This is the chorus of Pussy Riot’s controversial new song “Refugees In,” accompanying a video that was shot in the post-apocalyptic gloom of Banksy’s famous art installation, Dismaland, which…
The residents of this unique town literally live under a rock (Photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER For some, the expression, “Have you been living under a rock?” is nothing more than a rhetorical question expressing that a person is out of the loop. But for others, the expression is much more literal. Photo…
It turns out that selflessness is the easiest way to save you from stress and extend your life
BY: ROB HOFFMAN “A little bit of stress is productive, but a lot isn’t worth it.” I remember this advice clearly from one of my professors during exam season. Although I had taken an ‘easier said than done’ mentality back…
This Toronto school is giving the middle finger to political correctness – and for good reason
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Recently we’ve seen a rise in media, public institutions, universities, and just about everyone else in the public sphere contributing to the “coddling of the North American mind.” The article for The Atlantic explains that the rising…
It turns out that selflessness is the easiest way to save you from stress and extend your life
BY: ROB HOFFMAN “A little bit of stress is productive, but a lot isn’t worth it.” I remember this advice clearly from one of my professors during exam season. Although I had taken an ‘easier said than done’ mentality back…
The dirty truth behind growing up in rich kid suburbia
BY: REGAN MCNEILL I actually understand that song “Jesus of Suburbia” by Greenday. I am St. Jimmy pissed as fuck at the small world caving in around me and wondering what else (if anything) this life has to offer. I…
If you hate confrontation (or decency) you can pay this store to break up with someone for you
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Breakups are hard. Very rarely does the situation allow for a mature, amicable separation, where both parties walk away unscathed and on the path to friendship. No, more often one person will awkwardly stumble through a 10-minute,…
Watch this man experience the world for the first time after 44 years in prison
BY: JESSICA BEUKER When you’re a baby you experience everything for the very first time. You’re curious and perplexed; each day is a new adventure. Now, imagine having to go through that all over again at the age of 69.…
Income inequality in America has created a vicious cycle of poverty, homelessness and hunger
BY: Jack M. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” Franklin Roosevelt. First off, this is…
A new film series called Born Wild asks kids to put down the computers and get the hell outside
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Three moms are trying to break technology’s grip on many of our young people, which is especially frightening for a generation that cannot imagine life as anything else. They’ve proposed Born Wild, a film series with a…
These kids from a slum in Paraguay make beautiful music from recycled garbage
By: Jack M. “The world sends us garbage… we send back music.” Favio Chavez. The small town of Cateura is situated a few miles outside Paraguay’s capital city of Asunción, and for most of its existence, Cateura, with a population…
See Tibetan Buddhists gather to achieve collective bliss in an isolated, treeless valley (Photos)
BY: MELISSA BOODOO Every year, thousands of Tibetan Buddhists, nuns and lay people gather in the mountainous area of China’s Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in a far-off town called Seda, known as Serta to Tibetans. Every ninth month of the…
This trans model was disowned by her family, and the Internet adopted her
BY: SWIKAR OLI Tschan Andrews doesn’t want you to see her as a vanguard for black trans models. “It’s not a trend. It was always here,” Andrews tells Dazed. Indeed, since Paris is Burning thrust the struggle and celebration of…
The unintentional photojournalism of Google Street View (Photos)
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Panoramic shots of Thailand prostitutes, mountainous Iceland landscapes, suburban kids bearing guns, and secluded waterfalls surrounded by lush wildlife. These are some of the images one can find through Google Maps’ Street View feature. While many use…
This art dealer only sells homeless artists’ work because talent is found in unlikely places
BY: SWIKAR OLI Buy some art and help someone in need—that’s the mutually beneficial idea driving ArtLifting, a startup that recently raised $1.1 million and provides a platform for homeless and disabled artists to sell their art. Liz Powers, who…