BY: M. TOMOSKI The Cross Bronx Expressway is a slow-moving six-lane wall of traffic that cuts right through the centre of the northern New York borough for which it was named. It was the brainchild of urban planner Robert Moses,…
Expression & Culture
This artist stitches human faces to animal bodies to prove a disturbing point about animal rights
BY: SHAY ANSARI These chilling sculptures of human faces on real animal corpses are artist, Kate Clark’s, way of uniting mankind with the wild. When you think taxidermy, you probably aren’t thinking ‘what a great way to connect with our…
The friend zone has deep-seated roots in rape culture
BY: SAREEEMA HUSAIN The infamous “friend zone” is a desolate place, corroded with bitterness. When a woman makes the choice to not get involved with a man who is trying to initiate a romantic or sexual relationship, the man is…
Cheap suburban thrills have weighty consequences
BY: SAREEMA HUSAIN It’s a Wednesday and I find myself sinking into my living room couch. If I stare at my ceiling long enough without blinking, it’ll start to move. An unexpected giggle lurches out of my throat and my…
Cop who didn’t know the law gets owned by three topless sisters
BY: JACK M. What is it about North America’s antiquated, puritanical, prudish and tight-assed attitude towards women’s breasts? Why is it still taboo to even open up the topic? Fuck, it wasn’t long ago – 2002, to be exact –…
This street-art reminds us that life is short and nature is one sexy stone-hearted vixen
BY: SHAY ANSARI Destruction can be a beautiful thing. Artist, DALeast, illustrates the transience of life, both elegant and fragile, through a number of commanding murals painted across the globe. His art mainly consists of animals and snapshots of nature,…
These photos of the flawless figure of Mother Nature will make any sane person go outside
BY: SHAY ANSARI Photographer Trey Ratcliff is blind in one eye. Maybe that’s why he makes more of his vision than most, venturing to capture some of the most sublime landscapes on Earth. Ratcliff is based in New Zealand, the…
Top 7 childhood memories that are secretly sadistic
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA When you’re a child, things go over your head. But once the cold hard world has pissed all over your cotton candy dreams, sometimes a reassessment of childhood memories will forever change their connotation. Brace yourself.…
This video will challenge you to stop working your mundane job and start living your life
“This is the real secret of life. To be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” – Alan Watts British philosopher Alan Watts posed the…
Street artists are turning America’s most dangerous city into the world’s greatest open-air gallery
BY: M. TOMOSKI As the crowds emerge from Comerica Park and move onto Woodward Ave. clad in orange and blue they pour out of the city and back to the suburbs leaving behind the rusted arteries of what was once…
This village has a homemade-rocket war once a year to keep the peace (Video)
BY: MELISSA GONZALEZ “For about a month people see some tension. There is a state of unrest. Everyone knows that something is going on.” In the small village of Vrontados the month of March is no more than a grand…
14 women pose naked to challenge the elusive definition of “American Beauty”
BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN Raised on a cookie-cutter image of beauty, whether it was your favourite movie star, super hero, or the band-poster you had taped onto your wall, the role models that are meant to inspire us often have the…
Children around the world with their favourite toys capture the transition of childhood innocence
PHOTOGRAPHER: GABRIELE GALIMBERTI From Texas to Kenya all kids have one thing in common: they’ve got big imaginations and an undying love for their toys. Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti has taken photographs of children from all over the world with…
Uni-Degrees in Medical Clowning are changing the way we treat children for cancer
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Yolana Zimmerman is not your typical doctor. Sure, she spends most of her time in Israeli hospitals, working right beside the other doctors and nurses. She works with the patients one-on one, and accompanies them to CT…
Photographer uses infrared film to capture an invisible war that’s killed 5.4 million people
BY: CONNOR BRIAN So many times have Westerners been confronted with sensationalized coverage of systematic murder and sexual violence in Africa, that many editors appear to view the bloody political conflict of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with glazed…
Why I quit my high-paying corporate job to live off-grid lost in a desert eco-village
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA I graduated from a top school, came from a well-off family, and got a high-paying corporate job. Today, I’m what some like to call a hippie. Two years ago, I was living in Dubai, in an…
This man grew an entire church out of trees to create a holy green oasis
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA After years of traveling abroad and observing a multitude of churches, Barry Cox was inspired to build one of his own. Using his New Zealand backyard as the canvas, he began to create a church full…
This is what cheating death by jumping the gaps between city roof tops looks like
BY: SHAY ANSARI Hidden by a grey hoodie in the shadow of skyscrapers, a lone man races across cement roof tops clearing the gaps between buildings without a twitch of hesitation. He is a free runner, a type of underground…
Street art comes alive when street artists of the world gather to collapse the box (video)
BY: MELISSA GONZALEZ “Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” ― Banksy, Wall and Piece A diverse group of artists from around the world gather together during one week in order to…
This Instagrammer will make you seriously consider converting to veganism
BY: SHAY ANSARI We’ve all rolled our eyes at one point at the mention of veganism, but maybe the joke is on us. Instagrammer, Moky, posts mouth-watering photos of her vegan meals and makes us reconsider our daily diets. Not…