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- Irony In Stone: Ancient Greek Statues Dressed as Modern Hipsters
June 19, 2013 | 9:40 amAfter a day spent wandering around the Louvre in Paris, France, studying the idyllic nude bodies of ancient Greek statues, photographer Léo Caillard got to wondering about the nature of clothing. Each of the statues represented the maximization of human perfection—the human body taken to the extreme. But most people don’t have the ideal Greek [...]
- When in Rome… Make Better Concrete: How An Ancient Mix Beats Today’s Best
June 18, 2013 | 10:40 pmFrom the Hoover Dam and the Burj Khalifa to the Panama Canal, concrete underlies the greatest of modern architectural achievements. But modern concrete, it seems, doesn’t hold a candle to Ancient Rome’s. A little history for you: the Romans were the first to engineer concrete in mass, and it was upon this concrete that they [...]
- Google Wants Balloon Internet for Everybody
June 15, 2013 | 11:06 am“Balloons. That’s right. Balloons,” says the voice of a young girl in a video for Google’s latest endeavor: bringing the world online with massive balloons. The initiative, called Project Loon, comes from Google X, the experimental lab within the company whose sole purpose is to dream up big, borderline insane, ideas. Google X created self-driving [...]
- Watch Researchers Discover a Sunken Egyptian City
June 13, 2013 | 9:36 pmThonis, the legendary port city that served as an entryway to the Egyptian empire, was long considered to be a myth. The tales of its immense power and vast riches conflicted with the evidence of its existence—mainly that there was none. Cities of such grandeur do not typically disappear off the face of the earth. [...]
- “I Am The Nucleus” and Other Bizarre Quotes By Kanye West
June 12, 2013 | 10:06 amKanye West says the darndest things. On his unrelenting quest to become his own species of hip-hop artist, he has established a reputation as irreverent, controversial, and unapologetic. Though he makes time for public grandstanding by claiming a US President “doesn’t care about black people” or interrupting the VMAs, he remains mostly quiet when it [...]
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Kanye Tweets, Now Embroidered
One of the greatest pop culture phenomenons was Kanye West’s entrance onto Twitter, resulting in such great tweets as “why girls from Stockholm be so fresh????!!!!,” “French fries are the Devil,” and “I Make awesome decisions in bike stores!!!.”
It also sparked the spin-off memes from Aziz Ansari, “#PredictingKanyeTweets,” with such gems as “Da cufflinks gotta look like BABY tigers! Who da fuck gonna have a full grown tiger as a cufflink?! Lol” and this:
If that weren’t enough, we were also blessed with #kanyenewyorkertweets, wherein Kanye West tweets were set against New Yorker cartoons.
That was a long introduction to the latest, likely overdue addition to the spin-offs, embroidered and framed Kanye West tweets. Etsy designer Supervelma is now selling such items, so you can forever commemorate the beauty and wisdom of Yeezy on Twitter. With a Ye tweets for nearly any occasion, the possibilities are endless and all the stitching is hand done.
Basically, Kanye West tweets are the greatest.
Purchase here.
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Prefix Mag