This feature via L.A. Weekly It was a little after 2 a.m. on December 10, 1958. One minute Dorothy Hamm was snug asleep in her bed, the next she was wide awake, having been thrown to the ground by some powerful explosion. She ran outside and saw a “wall of

In the final part of this retrospective of the shock site Ogrish, we look at its sudden end and its replacement by LiveLeak, which all happened on the same day.  The design overhaul of Ogrish from the nihilism and gothic adornments of its ‘Can you handle life’ guise to its

I’m sure you’ve spent way too much time scrolling through the amazing feed of Awkward Family Photos. So instead of rolling your eyes right now, just admit you enjoy looking at other people’s terrible photos. And let’s be real – the era of the awkward family photo is going to

Marco Malattia is the mastermind behind VLF Laboratories – the true porn collective that takes its art to the next level. Below check out some of their most recent photos plus an excerpt from an interview we did with Marco. I find your work refreshing, as I have always found appeal in

In this 3rd instalment of a 4 part Ogrish retrospective, we take a closer look at the form and content of the shock site and how it repackaged itself as an alternative form of news service for the digital age.   The original look of the Ogrish site was dark

The first part of this four part retrospective provided a brief history of the Ogrish shock site which ran from 2000 to 2006, this second instalment looks at the censorship problems the site encountered and its implications for free speech in the new media age. Although Ogrish was never remotely