This film meets Ricky Powell, a native New Yorker whose photographs of iconic people such as the Beastie Boys, Keith Haring and Cindy Crawford made him a pivotal figure in the downtown party scene during the '80s and '90s. Now 50, Ricky’s lust for photography and music is still strong. Through his eccentricities such as his love for a transistor radio and feeding squirrels in the park, we gain an insight into his everyday life. Retrospective of New York City and how it has changed over his lifetime, he shows us around the city and contemplates what the future holds.

Decked out with a game room, a radio station, and a remote control tire swing, David Choe's Los Angeles warehouse studio is a testimony to the "bonus level" that he has reached in the art world. As a wildly popular and widely recognized international artist, Choe is also known for his reality TV show, the art he made while detained in a Japanese prison, and the mural he painted for Facebook, valued at over $200 million in Facebook shares. Inside his studio, the painter, muralist, and graffiti writer talks frankly with Alia about the new freedoms and challenges he's facing at this new stage in his practice.

An 11-page exposé about Lindsay Lohan and The Canyons, the Kickstarter-funded film written by Bret Easton Ellis and directed by Paul Schrader, co-starring porn heartthrob James Deen. The piece chronicles what a nice time everyone had on the short shoot—which took place over three weeks last July–with a lot of fond, funny anecdotes. Like the time Ms. Lohan took too many sleeping pills, locked herself in a closet, and refused to come out until Paul Schrader took off all his clothes.

The pitch was simple: “John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Blues Brothers, how about it?” But the film The Blues Brothers became a nightmare for Universal Pictures, wildly off schedule and over budget, its fate hanging on the amount of cocaine Belushi consumed. From the 1973 meeting of two young comic geniuses in a Toronto bar through the careening, madcap production of John Landis’s 1980 movie, Ned Zeman chronicles the triumph of an obsession.

Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a picture. Eventually that picture, known as Goatse, became one of the most venerable memes in internet history. Who is this man, and how did his ass take over the internet?

Die ersten paar Jahre war die Bar 25 noch ein ziemlich entspannter Ort mit peaciger Tür, trotzdem war der Laden der reine Rave-Alb, denn hier lag das Epizentrum der Miminalpest, die in den ersten Jahren des neuen Jahrtausends Angst und Schrecken über die Tanzflächen brachte: Unverdünnte Langeweile zu vershuffelt ausgebremsten Rhythmen. In der Bar tuckerte die Einfallslosigkeit in bassfreier Kofferradioqualität oft tagelang traurig vor sich hin, ohne dabei groß aufzufallen, vielleicht weil die Bar-25-Crowd durchs Musikhören über schepprige Laptoplautsprecher abgestumpft war, bestimmt weil es in diesem Club sowieso nicht um die Musik oder ums Raven ging, sondern um alberne Verkleidungen, schultheaterhafte Rollenspielchen und multitoxische Hirnerweichung, egal was, egal wie, Hauptsache mal die banale Tristesse der real existierenden Kreativklasse verdrängen. Weshalb die Unendlichkeit der Bar-25-Wochenenden, die sich gerne zäh und lustlos in den Dienstag schleppten, auch kein Ausdruck überbordender Lebensfreude waren, sondern kollektive Realitätsverweigerung mit Konfetti, Glitzer und Verstand im Ketamin-Erdloch ersäufen.

A portrait of Trash Talk, featuring skating, graffiti, weed, Odd Future, and mayhem.

MC Basstards Werdegang ist unweigerlich verknüpft mit der Gruppe BC - Berlin Crime, denn seit dem 15 Lebensjahr übernahm die Gang seine Erziehung, zumindest lautet so eine Textzeile aus dem Lied "Gehasst von vielen". Über den heutigen Hauptmann und Autoren Arye Shalicar alias Boss Aro kam der junge MC Basstard zu BC, außerdem verleihte Aro dem Tun der Jungs Struktur, lehrte sie gehorsam und Loyalität. So formierte sich mit der Zeit rund um Basstard, Mc Bogy, Manny Marc und Frauenarzt die Gruppe Berlin Crime. Eine Truppe aus Berliner Jungs die gemeinsam abhingen, malen gingen und um die Häuser zogen.

A$AP Rocky's A$VP C4 documentary was put together by Luke Monaghan for Channel 4 in the UK. In the doc, Rocky and his crew members A$AP Yams and A$AP Twelvyy take a look back at how the movement started, and tell the story behind the making of the "Peso" video. Rocky also talks about his first show in London, and growing up in Harlem in the 90's.

Perhaps no other living director has done as much for the art of the title sequence as David Fincher. The filmmaker’s work inarguably helped kickstart the title design renaissance of the 1990s, a revival that the medium still enjoys to this day. From the slumberous doom of Alien³ and the meticulous grotesquery of Se7en to the dreadful reminiscence of The Game, the electrical inner workings of Fight Club, and the majestic imposition of Panic Room, the director’s title sequences are as distinct from one another as they are distinctly the works of Fincher.

Reuters photographers and editors discuss their strategy for covering Olympics track and field events from every angle, such as the highly anticipated men's 100m final. Videography by Lucy Nicholson. Production by Jillian Kitchener.

Sometimes, as in the case with three men busted recently in New Jersey, recyclers will allegedly form a front business ("Metro Paper Inc.") to support their cardboard ring. A favored tactic of this particular heist squad, according to the authorities, was to back their vehicles up to stores while pretending to be licensed haulers. With nobody on the loading docks apparently questioning their authority, they're suspected to have made off with 900 tons of cardboard in just three months this year, a weight that represents $103,000 in free money.

MP3s are so natural to the Internet now that it’s almost hard to imagine a time before high-quality compressed music. But there was such a time—and even after "MP3" entered the mainstream, organizing, ripping, and playing back one's music collection remained a clunky and frustrating experience. Enter Winamp, the skin-able, customizable MP3 player that "really whips the llama's ass." In the late 1990s, every music geek had a copy; llama-whipping had gone global, and the big-money acquisition offers quickly followed. AOL famously acquired the company in June 1999 for $80-$100 million—and Winamp almost immediately lost its innovative edge.

This 20-minute film chronicles the influence that the video part has had on the skateboarding industry through current skater and filmmaker interviews along with footage from the most popular and respected videos of all time, ranging from Stacy Peralta's The Bones Brigade Video Show (1984), to Element's Rise and Shine (2011). "Skate on Film" combines in-depth interviews with industry greats, such as Andrew Reynolds, Matt Hensley, Heath Kirchart and Nyjah Huston, just to name a few.

Twenty years after The Dream Team dominated unlike any other sports team in Olympic history, NBA TV's behind the scenes look at the squad brought back many moments of nostalgia. The documentary entitled The Dream Team, narrated by Edward Burns, began by looking at the history of Olympic basketball, including how the Soviet Union team won the gold in 1972 and 1988 just when it seemed like the Americans'amateur players were good enough to win the gold every year.

If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world. It would far outstrip any regime past or present in how intimately it records the lives of its citizens. Private conversations, family photos, and records of road trips, births, marriages, and deaths all stream into the company's servers and lodge there. Facebook has collected the most extensive data set ever assembled on human social behavior.

Für unser neues BACKSPIN TV-Format, Stammtisch, haben wir niemand Geringeres als den Hip-Hop-Provokateur schlechthin, unseren geschätzten Kollegen Marcus Staiger, in dem Berliner Restaurant seiner Wahl getroffen, um bei türkischen Köstlichkeiten, über seine Aktivitäten nach Rap.de, seinen neuen Job bei Aggro.tv und Journalismus allgemein wie auch speziell im Hip-Hop zu sprechen. Der Royal Bunker-Gründer erwies sich ein weiteres Mal als redseliger Gesprächspartner, der mit seiner Meinung nicht lange hinter dem Berg hält.

Desillusion magazine and Nixon proudly present their latest video instalment “This is Andrew”, a video portrait paying tribute to US street skateboarder Andrew Reynolds. Growing up in a small town in Florida, Andrew started skateboarding at a very young age. Due to his exceptional talent – Reynolds won the first contest he ever entered – he drew the attention of the skate industry and landed on some of the top sponsored teams as a teenager. Following Tony Hawk and others to the Californian epicentre of skateboarding at the age of 18, he met fellow skateboarders like Jim Greco, Ali Boulala and Knox Godoy, later on known as the “Piss Drunx”, ruling the streets of LA.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a fast internet connection must be in want of some porn. According to Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner, which tracks users across the web with a cookie, dozens of adult destinations populate the top 500 websites. Xvideos, the largest porn site on the web with 4.4 billion page views per month, is three times the size of CNN or ESPN, and twice the size of Reddit. It’s probably not unrealistic to say that porn makes up 30% of the total data transferred across the internet.

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast. I have two protein shakes made for me by my doctor - they have a chocolate taste and no sugar, of course — and steamed apples. That's all. I don't like anything else in the morning. I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange. I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed. I can even drink it in the middle of the night, and I can sleep. I don't drink coffee, I don't drink tea, I drink nothing else.

Warn the US Embassy, because this has "International Incident" written all over it. After Thrasher Skate Rock torched numerous countries, China's next in line for the invasion. To give the gift of chaos, ringing ears, and amazing skating, Cons helped us send over a mob of 25 bros, including bands (LSDemons, Bad Shit) and the best skaters (Angel Ramirez, Don Nguyen, Dustin Dollin, Frank Gerwer, Justin Figueroa, Neckface, Nick Trapasso, Omar Salazar, Richie Belton, Sammy Baca, Sean Gutierrez, Shawn Hale, Thomas Bonilla, Tom Remillard, Tony Trujillo) in the world.

26. In den Siebzigern ist es in den USA schwierig, an Heroinspritzen zu kommen. Richards bringt die Nadel durch den Zoll, indem er mit ihr eine Feder an seinem Hut befestigt, die Spritze selbst besorgt er sich im Spielzeugladen, als Teil eines Arztköfferchens für Kinder.

From Valley Girls to the Kardashians, young women have long been mocked for the way they talk. Whether it be uptalk, creating slang words like "bitchin" and "ridic" or the incessant use of "like" as a conversation filler, vocal trends associated with young women are often seen as markers of immaturity or even stupidity. But linguists now say such thinking is outmoded. Girls and women in their teens and 20s deserve credit for pioneering vocal trends and popular slang, they say, adding that young women use these embellishments in much more sophisticated ways than people tend to realize.

OUTSIDE IN is a celebratory and historical look at street art through the lens of the Museum of Contemporary Art's groundbreaking exhibition Art in the Streets. The film features renowned artists Shepard Fairey, Lee Quiñones, Swoon, Futura, Mister Cartoon, Revok, Martha Cooper, Invader to name a few. Director Alex Stapleton (Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel) documents the artist's creative process, their pitfalls with the law, the poetic impermanence of their craft and the artists' evolution from the back seat of a cop car to the walls of a well-respected institution.