Mad Art Lab Live-Tweet Event: The Cosmos
In an effort to prove that live-tweeting exists for reasons other than snark, your Mad Art Labbers have decided to partake in a live-tweet event of something we’re actually excited for – the reboot of The Cosmos! Full disclosure, there will probably still be snark, but if you’d like to join in the fun, you can find us on Twitter using #MALCosmos. The reboot will be hosted by the ... »
Mad Quickies: Stop riding that penguin. We’re leaving.
It’s the Weekend Quickies! Cocktails down; surf’s up! Jeff Schmuki describes his work as “Horticultural Installations, Interventions and Performances.” His vimeo bio reads: “His installations, interventions, and collaborations combine activism, research, and science in order to foster discussion and generate action in the area of ecological awareness.” Yes to al... »
An Oscars-Inspired Dinner
I didn’t watch the Oscars this past Sunday, but I couldn’t avoid catching some of the buzz via Facebook and my other social media channels. By far my favorite thing to show up in my feed on Oscars night were–unsurprisingly–food related! My friend Laura Hepburn Engert planned a nine-course meal to help her celebrate the awards show, with one course inspired by each Best Pict... »
Mad Quickies 3.5
Portrait of a Community Inside Barneys’ groundbreaking campaign featuring 17 trans* models Stuff Being Thrown at My Head via Anne Astronaut Mae Jemison talks about women in STEM. I love her. LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS COPEPOD. It’s little and it flashes blue with the right light. The Last of Us True tales of the last members of doomed species. Color photos of the inside of the Hindenburg Re... »
Operation Flawless: A Confessional Recap
I want to thank every single person who contributed even a single selfie. You are all amazing. You are all beautiful. And it is your faces that helped me keep going. I love and respect all of you. I know it was hard. I bow down to you. Monday was the end of Operation Flawless, a social media campaign encouraging women to reject conventional beauty standards and post “unattractive” selfies. I spent... »
Band Riders and the Legend of the Brown M&Ms
New York-based photographer Henry Hargreaves and food artist Caitlin Levin have done something amazing. No, I don’t mean their gingerbread recreations of famous art galleries and museums or photographs of deep-fried tech gadgets, though both are equally cool. I mean Band Riders, a photography project depicting the catering requests of various musicians’ riders in the style of a Flemish... »
