Wear Your History On Your Sleeve: 10 Ways to Bring Real Meaning to Your Wardrobe

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Michael Cepress is an artist and fashion designer based in Seattle, Washington.  His eponymous label is going strong and aiming to launch its first complete men’s and women’s collections in 2013. Today is the last day of his Kickstarter campaign, and

Arts and Athletics

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Athletics have been the subject of movies, songs, books, sculpture and paintings. Over the course of history, athletics have bloomed into a booming industry and are televised and analyzed 24 hours a day, creating rabid fan bases in cities around the world. When combined what does the

This Week in Art News and Internet Eye Candy

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Included in this installment: Obama fights conspiracy theory with humor, a photographer captures how NYC subway cars became plankton penthouses and an artist solicits voice mail messages to inspire works of art. Consider this post a short ride through the

Top Ten Art Films

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While there are a lot of well known documentaries about artists and art movements, I thought I’d focus on films for this top ten list. The lives of artists are often a mixture of the inspiring and the tragic. I

Top Ten NYC Public Art Installations

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New York City is one of the best places in the world for all kinds of art. As I’ve found in my travels around the city, you don’t need to be inside a museum or gallery to find great and interesting works.

This Week in Art & Internet Eye Candy

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This is the week in random internet eye candy and art news. Should the universe cooperate, I plan to post on this subject on a frequent basis and add to Popten what the internet provides in the visually interesting from art world and away from it. Enjoy!

Sleep No More

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You wander into the dark hotel on eleventh avenue and walk through a dimly lit hall. They take your coat and ticket and motion towards a dim light in the distance. You walk through pitch-blackness, hands in front of you,

Popten Art launches today. Artists exposed, sketches and all.

Popten has been host to some great posts by incredibly talented authors, and until today that was the only way to consume our media. It’s a historic day though ~ today we’re launching a brand new way to experience our

The Desktop Wallpaper Project

Recently I found a site where artists are desperately trying to rescue the masses from boring wallpapers, fractal designs, comic book backgrounds, and the like. In this place they have some really beautiful art to stare at for hours, and

The Fansub Controversy

A fansub (short for fan-subtitled) is a version of a foreign film or TV program which has been translated by fans and subtitled into a language other than that of the original. As Tanya stated, fansubbing can be illegal according

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The Top Ten Board Games of All Time

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By Josh Edwards I love board games. I mean, really, who doesn’t?    In fact, I love them so much that I have a blog dedicated simply to board games (it’s called Board Game Reviews by Josh.) So, when I was

Top Ten air guitar songs

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We all do funny and embarrassing things when we have the house to ourselves, some people have conversations with their pets, while others pretend their hairbrush is a microphone and sing along to their favorite songs. In the past, Pop

Top Ten Wedding Songs

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So when your high school BFF (Jeanne) gets married (tomorrow), really the only appropriate thing to do is make a wedding-y mix. Here are my 11 favorite wedding/marriage/love is forever songs in her honor. 1. Ben Folds – The Luckiest

20 Weird Records Set By College Students

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By the time you hit college, you know whether you can ever expect to set a world record in track and field, be the youngest Ph.D. in history, or achieve some equally impressive distinction. But take heart: there are all

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