Thought Catalog

Bebe Zeva is a 17-year-old fashion-blogger/model/writer living in Las Vegas. On November 27, 2010 Megan Boyle and Tao Lin used a MacBook to film a feature-length documentary about her.

Gareth Lloyd and Tom Martin thought it would be a fun idea to geo-tag every Wikipedia entry in existence and make a visually pleasing video of the result. Sorta makes it look like nothing of any consequence happened outside of Europe until the 1700s, which makes enough sense if you operate under the assumption that everyone that’s written or edited a Wikipedia entry is most likely rich/ educated/ Western/ industrialized.

Needledicking: Making direct contact with a person of higher online social standing within a given community with no fixed intentions or propositions – mainly (merely) to say what’s up or indicate approval of “what they are doing” – under the impression that said action may result in unforeseen future benefit. Eg: “Biches are needledicking my fake Bill Gates account…”

You have two options when you get to be really old: Die or become fodder for YouTube.

On Saturday, February 26th, we will be hosting a reading series at Happy Ending Lounge in New York City. Starting at 7:30 P.M, Tao Lin, Ryan O’Connell, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Leigh Alexander, David (from Pitchfork Reviews Reviews), and more will be reading select pieces about life, love and the Internet.

Watch the granny pummel the bad guys with gusto and, in effect, raise the question, “Is 60 the new 30?!”

“Published in 1936, The Organizationsbuch der NSDAP (with subsequent annual editions), detailed all aspects of party bureaucracy, typeset tightly in German Blackletter. What interested me, however, were the over 70 full-page, full-color plates (on heavy paper) that provide examples of virtually every Nazi flag, insignia, patterns for official Nazi Party office signs, special armbands for the Reichsparteitag (Reichs Party Day), and Honor Badges.”

A comprehensive, collectively-written list of the different types of people there are on the internet, written by Bebe Zeva, Leigh Alexander, Lesley Arfin, Ryan O’Connell, Kelley Hoffman, Tao Lin, Megan Boyle, Blake Butler, Gene Morgan, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Molly Young, Jimmy Chen, Joshua Lyon, Alex Blagg and more.

Bleak? Depressing? Funny? Liberating? Check out this girl’s take on Black Swan style after the jump.

Improv Everywhere, a post-modern social movement group dedicated to spreading “joy and chaos” through a series of silly (and inane) missions, pulled their latest stunt yesterday: the 10th annual No Pants Subway Ride.    Over 3,000 bored, free-spirited kids rode the subway in New York City without pants, and thousands more participated in other cities across the globe.

The holidays, time to curl up next to an open fire and listen to Granny read tales from 50’s Twitter.

“WARNING: This jam contains extreme bass frequencies which may damage your speakers.”

When confronted during the postgame press conference, Anderson throws a hissy fit and informs the reporter he doesn’t want to be embarrassed on Monday Night Football in front of everybody. Watch after the jump.

Starving artist, Julia Roberts, got paid $1.5 million to star in this Italian commercial for Lavazza coffee. Although Roberts doesn’t actually speak in the commercial, she does flash a $1.5 million dollar smile. I’m so happy Julia Roberts got this gig. For a second, I was worried about how she was going to pay her rent, how she was going to be able to survive in this terrible economy.

Most Black Friday brawls involve trampling. The one above involves a Walmart parking lot, Four Loko, and several high kicks from a drunk fat kid. This is America at its best. Watch and weep.

David Wolf is pissed about the new “newly-minted and maximally-invasive TSA policies and practices” and has taken to his art as a way to profit, er protest, this gross breach of the third amendment.

The classic refrigerator experience involves heavy, hinged doors. You open these doors to browse your food assortment and close these doors once you have made a selection. Like all traditional things though, this experience is deeply flawed.

Ted Sabarese is New York City based portrait and advertising photographer. He studied at Parsons and describes his work as “clean, graphic, character-driven.” The following gallery “Office Wear” depicts workers with clothes made entirely of office supplies.