Caroline Stanley

These dramatic superhero silhouettes by Macedonia-based illustrator and graphic designer Marko Manev aren’t just lovely to look at, they also capture the mystery of beloved vigilantes like Batman and Wolverine. Clearly Manev — whose minimalist…

An incredible creative force in experimental cinema who inspired everyone from Warhol to John Waters, Jack Smith is considered a pioneer of America’s post-war underground scene — and yet he was largely unknown outside of the art world in his…

Kelvin Okafor’s drawings are meticulous — so richly detailed that it’s almost impossible to believe that the image that you’re looking at was created by a graphite pencil and some charcoal, and not a camera’s lens. But these drawings were all done…

Spotted by PetaPixel, this series by New York-based photographer and videographer Ben Franke uses flour and dramatic lighting to capture the gravity-defying movements of parkour like you’ve never seen them before. “It’s a challenge for any…

Can we all agree that February is the absolute worst? Not only is the winter weather usually at its most brutal, but we’re also in that awkward lull in the TV schedule, with nothing new and exciting to look forward to until spring. Then there’s…

To celebrate the 55th anniversary of LEGO, Montreal-based creative agency Brad came up with a series of 55 minimalist posters illustrating some of your favorite books, songs, movies, children’s stories, and bands — all in colorful little bricks.…

As most New Yorkers have probably heard already, this weekend marks the 100th anniversary of Grand Central Terminal, which officially opened its doors at midnight on February 2, 1913. Designed by the architectural firms of Reed and Stem and Warren…

[Ed. note: In celebration of the series finale of one of our all-time favorite TV comedies on Thursday night, we’re going to be celebrating 30 Rock all week long on Flavorwire. Look for a new feature each day, and be sure to check out all of our…

As Jennifer Senior recently explained in New York Magazine, we never truly leave high school — it’s a scientific fact. Whether or not you’re still haunted by the thought of your prom portrait or cafeteria politics, there’s one part of adolescence…

How does a well-off but totally disconnected married couple living in Silver Lake spice up their marriage? By taking in an exotic dancer as their nanny, of course. As Jason Bailey mentioned in his Sundance 2013 recap, Jill Soloway’s debut feature,…

This week on Flavorwire, we were a little more obsessed with famous people than we usually are around these parts, examining everything from their fascinating business cards to their final photographs to the evolution of their private jets. We met…

“D is for Don Draper. Old Fashioned-supping alpha and legendary mad man/remover of bras.” Many thanks to A Parliament of Owls for tipping us off to Alphamales , an ongoing design project by Stuart Jackson that pays homage to “the world’s manliest…

There’s no debating that David Pelham’s cover for the Penguin Books UK paperback edition of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange is iconic — that cog-eyed face is impossible to forget. But the British illustrator was far from a one-hit wonder; in…

Everyone is freaking out because Beyoncé lip-synched “The Star-Spangled Banner” at yesterday’s inauguration; you can even compare a clip of her rehearsing with the final version. As Kristin DuBois, a representative for the United States Marine Band,…

The famed Martha Graham once described dance as “a graph of the heart.” In her ongoing series Viv(r)e la Vie!, which we spotted thanks to Feature Shoot, Spanish photographer Ana Galan captures old couples dancing in different countries across the…

Talk about your unexpected eye candy: the pleasing geometric shapes and rich, over-saturated colors in these photos by Los Angeles-based artist Ed Freeman transform abandoned fast food restaurants and gas stations into objects of startling beauty.…

You know what there simply aren’t enough of? Children’s books that lampoon the Cubist movement. As Will Schofield over at 50 Watts explains, “The Cubies’ A B C is a mostly light-hearted jab at the Cubists in the guise of a children’s book. Brancusi,…

Earlier today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the “third pillar” of his social network — a new search tool called Graph Search, which will leverage Facebook’s one billion members’ 240 billion photos and 1 trillion interpersonal connections.…

You might know Anthony Hernandez for his beautiful landscape photography, but back in the ’80s the artist turned his lens on a rarefied subject: the shoppers of Beverly Hills. The resulting images — which mark the first time he had worked in color —…

Let’s face it: The real reason that most of us are tuning in to tonight’s Golden Globes ceremony before watching the season premiere of Girls or the new Downton Abbey is to see what kind of craziness the evening’s hilarious co-hosts, Amy Poehler and…

If you couldn’t stomach watching the entire Golden Globes last night, have no fear: we asked Flavorwire pal Jesse Pynigar to put together a much shorter version of the show that’s got all of the important parts — no, we’re not talking about Jodie…

This week at Flavorwire, we looked at some epically bad plans for New York City over the years — and by “epically bad,” we mean putting a two-mile-wide dome up over midtown Manhattan and filling in the Hudson. We revisited some of the scariest…

Making a map of New York City’s complicated subway system that is geographically accurate and easy on the eyes is no simple task — just ask Massimo Vignelli. Spotted by ANIMAL, these minimal beauties by designer Andrew Lynch aren’t just pretty to…

If there’s one thing most New Yorkers find impossible, it’s slowing down. For his City Stages series, photographer Matthew Pillsbury imposes a hushed calm on normally busy settings, shooting hour-length exposures with a large format 8 X 10 view…

“The last time Austria and Germany co-produced something was Hitler, so this is much better.” Was this morning a preview of what we can expect when Seth MacFarlane hosts the Academy Awards next month? Some of our favorite people on Twitter seem to…

New York City-based photographer Henry Grossman shot The Beatles extensively in the mid-60s, covering their initial 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, visiting them on the set of Help! in The Bahamas and Austria, and even venturing into their…

By now you’ve probably read that Hasbro plans to either retire the race car, iron, Scottie dog, wheelbarrow, shoe, top hat, thimble, or battleship — and they’re putting the decision in the hands of the public via the Monopoly Facebook page. Along…

Well, Will Schofield over at 50 Watts has done it again, finally posting the promised sequel to his fantastic roundup of Swedish film posters for 1930s Hollywood. This time around, he widened his scope a bit, assembling a gorgeous stash of posters…

Unearthed by Pop Focal, the unaired pilot of 30 Rock is basically the same as the version that we’ve all seen before, but with one major exception — Jenna was played by Tina Fey’s longtime pal Rachel Dratch. “The internet, magazines and news stories…

Herod. Hitler. Hussein. History is full of notorious baddies — and those are just the H’s we can think of off the top of our heads. We asked Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, author of the newly-published The Desktop Digest of Despots & Dictators: An A-Z of…

Danny Quirk makes the kind of art that we could imagine finding in a serial killer’s basement. Or maybe hanging on some very intense pre-med student’s walls. With the goal of “painting what the camera can’t capture,” the Pratt Institute illustration…

Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you…

Jake Fried is kind of a wizard. Using basic white-out (and in the case of his most recent work, coffee), the Boston-based artist and animator creates layered “moving paintings” that are actually made up of one drawing scanned consecutively and…

You need look no further than recent debate over women’s reproductive rights for proof that America remains a pretty puritanical society. But you could also argue that in spite of what the “grey-faced men” with “$2 haircuts” might prefer, sexuality…

Spotted by Colossal, the latest pen and ink illustrations by Japanese artist Sagaki Keita are sure to make your eyes cross if you stare at them too long. Thousands of tiny, intricate doodles make up each of his complex pieces, so it’s hard to know…

We probably don’t need to tell you guys that Season 3 of Portlandia debuts on IFC on January 4 at 10/9c with back-to-back episodes. If you’re like us, then you’ve been counting the days and passing the time by revisiting some of Fred and Carrie’s…

To work with Aurelie Curie, you’d have to be quite brave — and you definitely wouldn’t want to have a fear of heights. Why? The urban and industrial photographer’s subjects pose precariously atop some of the city’s most impressive rooftops. “I…

As Julian Barnes writes in The Sense of an Ending, “I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true…

There are many advantages to city life, from conveniences like 24-hour delis and reliable public transportation to all of the culture that’s right at our fingertips. But there’s one thing that’s sadly missing from our lives: starry skies. In Thierry…

Les Miserables managed to beat out Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained at the Christmas Day box office, bringing in an estimated $17.5 million and setting records for both the highest opening day for a musical and the top weekday Christmas opening…

It has been a really weird week, hasn’t it? But seeing as how we all managed to survive the Mayan apocalypse — at least so far — how about revisiting some of our favorite features that went up over the last few days before you head out for the…

Spotted by Retronaut, these stereoscopic holiday portraits of Richard and Anna Wagner — taken every Christmas Eve from the first year of their marriage in 1900 until just three years before Anna’s death in 1945 — were sent out as Christmas cards to…

You wouldn’t think that images of seeds would be very compelling, but thanks to Sarajevo-born, Washington DC-based photographer Svjetlana Tepavcevic’s incredibly detailed, perspective-altering shots, it’s as if we’re seeing them for the first time.…

Here’s a clever idea for a photo project: Travel across the globe and ask the grandmothers who you meet along the way to prepare their favorite dish for you. In his series Delicatessen with love, which we spotted on Visual News, Italian photographer…

1. Call it the John McCain bump: Even though it opened in extremely limited release yesterday, Zero Dark Thirty is already breaking box office records. [via Deadline] 2. This photo from the set of 30 Rock is giving us mixed emotions. On one hand,…

First things first: I’ve adored Mindy Kaling since the first time Kelly Kapoor opened her mouth and said something interesting on The Office. Admittedly, it took a while for them to figure out how to use her (outside of Michael Scott making lame…

Earlier today we learned that President Obama had been named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” — for the second time! As managing editor Richard Stengel explained, “Obama is the first Democratic President since FDR to win more than 50% of the…

1. In spite of 4chan’s best efforts, Time Magazine has named Barack Obama — and not North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un — its “Person of the Year”. [via Gawker] 2. Could Daft Punk, The Rolling Stones, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs be headlining Coachella 2013?…

While our friends in the UK count the days until this year’s Downton Abbey Christmas Special airs, those of us across the pond still have months of waiting to do. But that doesn’t mean we can’t drum up some Downton-style Christmas fun of our own…

And now for the latest addition to the typography we’re totally obsessed with file: Spotted by Visual News, this simple, handmade typeface created by Malaysian designer Mei Linn Chan really caught our eye. Using an exacto knife to carefully carve…

1. NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and his production team have been freed after spending five days in captivity in Syria. While the identities of the kidnappers and their motives are unknown, it appears that they were loyal to…

We’ve all had the experience of walking down the street and spotting a person who looks just like someone we know, only to realize — often too late for it not to be completely awkward — that we’re absoultely wrong. Or maybe you frequently find…

1. Over a year later, a new inquest is being held into Amy Winehouse’s death because the assistant deputy coroner who oversaw the original examination lacked proper qualifications. [via ArtsBeat] 2. Odd Future has been accused of brutally attacking…

If tried to sweet talk your way into a sold-out screening of The Hobbit over the weekend, then you might not be surprised to hear that there are a ton of hardcore J.R.R. Tolkien fans out there. What we imagine might surprise you is how many of those…

1. Was Alec Baldwin trying to break out heart when he tweeted this photo of Jack Donaghy’s last day at the office? Probably. [via BuzzFeed] 2. “He’s giving everyone shit the whole time, and he’s a big pain in the ass.” You’ll never guess who Jon…

Don’t worry, there’s no need to adjust your computer screen. There’s a reason why the people featured in Grégoire Cheneau’s Altered States portrait series all seem a bit off. Look a bit more closely. These photographs are composites, created out of…

If you’ve been reading Flavorwire for the past few years, then you already know that one of our favorite holiday traditions is doling out gifts to 100 boldfaced names in culture — it doesn’t matter whether they’re dead or alive; naughty or nice;…

1. Watching Stephen Colbert, Michael Stipe, and Mandy Patinkin sing “Good King Wenceslas” just made our morning. Absolutely delightful. [via Pitchfork] 2. If you skipped Barbara Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People” special last night, then you…

You may have noticed that we’re already getting a little bit giddy about the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, even though it’s still over a month away. Adding to our excitement: Sundance Film Festival A to Z, a very cool new book edited by famed design…

1. It’s Google Zeitgeist time again! Here’s an exhaustive look at some of most popular searches and search trends throughout the year, a list topped by Whitney Houston, Gangnam Style, and Hurricane Sandy. 2. Mick Jagger stopped by Letterman last…

1. James Franco explains that his band Daddy’s new song “Can’t Say Goodbye” was inspired by his father’s recent death. Watch the music video for the track — which features childhood home movies of the actor — here. 2. The National debuted four new…

Minneapolis-based art director Brock Davis does things with food that will blow your mind. He’s the kind of visionary who can magically turn a broccoli stem into a tiny tree house, a plate of spaghetti into an iconic album cover, or a handful of…

1. Beyoncé just inked a $50 million deal with Pepsi that includes “a multimillion-dollar fund to support the singer’s chosen creative projects.” 2. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs debuted a new track over the weekend at a Hurricane Sandy benefit that Spin…

Billy Wilder, who directed Marilyn Monroe in both Some Like it Hot and The Seven Year Itch, once described her rare, magical quality on camera like so: “She had flesh which photographed like flesh. You feel you can reach out and touch it. Unique is…

1. “You and Hillary are going to have a hell of a battle in 2016.” — Jon Stewart grilled Chris Christie about everything from his love of Bruce to his sudden 180 on President Obama’s leadership skills on last night’s Daily Show. Watch the full…

Yesterday temperatures here in New York City were about 20 degrees above average. Today it’s freezing outside and they’re talking about how it might snow. So! You can either sit at your desk totally freaking out about the evils of climate change, or…

1. Famed architect Oscar Niemeyer, the man behind many of the buildings in Brazil’s futuristic capital, has died at the age of 104. [via Guardian] 2. It turns out Taylor Swift as just as good at beatboxing as you might imagine. [via Gawker] 3. James…

Hello Readers! Welcome to the brand new Flavorwire. A little over four years ago, we decided to launch a culture blog that would cover everything from the front lines of emerging culture to the classic names you all know. We’ve made it our mission…

Today at Flavorpill, we watched a video featuring Nathan Fillion in a doctor’s outfit, some puppets, and Neil Patrick Harris’ trouser weasel (don’t worry — it’s not as dirty as it sounds). We were thrilled to hear that Katheryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark…

1. Presented without comment: “The British hospital treating the former Kate Middleton admitted Wednesday it was victimized by a crank call in which information on her condition was given out to a woman impersonating Queen Elizabeth II.” [via…

Recently unveiled at Venice’s Biennale Architettura 2012, The Detour Book is a collection of more than 250 notebooks that have been “decorated, hacked, and sketched” by an impressive list of creative types that includes Spike Jonze, Sigur Rós,…

They cut off their hair, wear masculine clothing, and may even take a new name. Spotted by Feature Shoot, Jill Peters’ Sworn Virgins of Albania project looks at women in the Balkans who have chosen a life of celibacy in order to avoid the oppressive…

1. Last night Stephen Colbert gleefully kicked off his week-long celebration of The Hobbit by interviewing Gandalf himself. Watch Sir Ian McKellen get trounced in a vicious game Tolkien trivia, and later admit that “Gandalf is more powerful than…

Spotlighted by Petapixel, photographer Tom Olesnevich’s NYC By Bike project gives viewers a perspective of the city that most of us have never experienced before; he shot the series using a DSLR that he strapped to the bottom of his bicycle. (Yes,…