Britta Conroy-Randall
Will the Real Ben Frost Please Stand Up?
There are a lot of people in the world with the same name. I’ve heard that “Mohammed” is the most common first name worldwide, and that the most common surname is “Li” (though I’ve never heard of a Mohammed Li…yet). I’m not sure where “Ben Frost” ranks, but I’m amused by this nomenclature coincidence: Ben […]
MoMA’s Chicken Coup
Be careful what you wish for. New York’s MoMA thought it had commissioned a group of artists and architects to create a farm in the courtyard of it’s Queens outpost,P.S.1. And on opening day they didn’t disappoint. Surprise! Unbeknownst to MoMA, a “tool shed” the architects were building was actually a chicken coop. On the […]
15 Minutes of Shame
TheWinnebago Man videois the granddaddy of all viral. Foul-mouthed, vitriolic outtakes from a real promotional shoot starring an RV salesman named Jack Rebney, it circulated underground on VHS tapes in the 1990s, before YouTube turned “the angriest man in the world” into a phenomenon. Spike Jonze is rumored to have sent out copies of the […]
Don’t Forget Us: Photographing the Oil Spill
The biggest piece of bad news of the last 4 months seems to be getting less bad: the Deepwater Horizon oil well is plugged, and the spill is disappearing from the surface of the Gulf fast.As the catastrophefades the photographerZoe Straussis doing her part to keep our focus on the disaster — and how it […]
Getting Lost with Hand Drawn Maps
I like to collect old road maps, and when the need arises for me to draw a map for a visiting friend or relative, I’ll admit I fancy myself a pretty good cartographer. But sometimes I find myself the artist of a bizarrely scaled and oddly detailed map which names all the trees, statues, and […]
V.V. Brown Comes to Your Town
V.V. Brownvirtually exploded onto the music scene this summer – and followed up her popularity in the charts and online by touring with Owl City, doing the rounds on talk shows, and lending her songs to commercials andTV shows. So even if you don’t think you know her music, you probably do. The British singer […]