Entertainment

Inside Kanye’s Seven-Screen Movie Pyramid

When Yeezy premiers a film, it’s safe to assume he’s not going to gather some people inside an auditorium and hit the lights. Why do that when you can commission a massive pyramid to house a seven-screen cinematic palace?


May 19, 2012
Entertainment

Kanye Makes Good On DONDA Promises, Will Premiere Epic Seven-Screen Movie Next Week

Remember when Kanye went on an epic rant back in January about his new technology-fuelled initiative DONDA? Remember the talk of his quasi-sci-fi short film set in 2016, which would be projected onto seven screens? Yeah, he wasn’t lying. It’s happening, and it’ll see the light of day next week.


March 29, 2012
Online

That New "Donda Media" Site Is Fake As Hell

Everyone’s chattering about Whodat.biz, the new site from Kanye West’s insane tech startup Donda. By everybody, I mean The Washington Post and Twitter, which went bezerker over it, and, well, us. But Whodat.biz? Oh come on, now. If this ain’t a hoax, I’ll eat Kanye’s doo-doo.


Online

What The Hell Is Kanye’s Insane Tech Start Up?

Earlier this year, Kanye West went on an epic Twitter berserker barrage that was so insane it promised to revolutionise tech, architecture, education and everything in between. Apparently, his first project with his new start up, Donda Media, popped up in beta last night and it’s… uhh… what the hell, Kanye? Update: It’s a fake.


January 6, 2012
Geek Out

Kanye’s Insane Tech Startup

Like a Mount Vesuvius covered in Louis Vuitton, Kanye West just ended his Twitter dormancy with an enormous late night rant. The subject? Not Taylor Swift, but tech, architecture, education — the list goes on. He’s assembling a superteam.


August 16, 2011
Entertainment

Jay-Z And Kanye Sample The Apollo 11 Launch

Watch the Throne has been knocking around Twitter, headphones and radio stations since it dropped last week. The production is great — Yeezy, can you do no wrong? But one beat stands out. Probably because it samples NASA’s moon launch.


August 10, 2011
Entertainment

How Did Jay-Z And Kanye Keep The Biggest Album Of The Year From Leaking?

Kanye and Jay-Z, rap’s Zeus and Athena, have finally released their buzz-flinging collaboration, Watch the Throne. And it’s pretty good! But more impressively, unlike virtually every single album ever these days, it didn’t leak online first. How’d they do that?


August 3, 2011
Entertainment

Kanye West Dancing On Police Cars Surrounded By Rainbow Lights

Many people already hate Kanye West, because he does things like shoot extravagant music videos in which he, in a frenzy, stomps across police cars in a seizure-inducing supernova of light and magnificence. They resent it! But it is wonderful.


April 26, 2011
Computing

Why Is This Person Taking Concert Pics With An iPad?

The reality of any concert today is that your vision is probably going to be locked by hundreds (or thousands) of arseholes holding up cameras and phones to capture an event they’re already attending IRL. Fine. But with an iPad?


April 14, 2011
Entertainment

Kanye West Transported To Swirling Nebula Of Mind-Altering GIFs

Kanye West, long-time ruler of the internet, has been given a proper tribute in the web’s most gorgeous artistic medium – the animated GIF. This (mildly NSFW) video, by WE ARE FROM L.A., turns old files into… power.