SMITH Magazine

The hyperbolically-titled "bloggers revolution" has changed publishing. Virtually free to publish, the internet phenomenon has created digital publishing, a medium that is simultaneously wholly democratic yet often schizophrenic. Now there's a mag that's unabashedly harnessing the infinite pool of online writing talent into one monthly publication. SMITH Magazine, launched earlier this month, seems to operate on the age-old adage that "everyone has a story to …

Crown Angels T-Shirt

The elegiac Crown Angels T-Shirt by Brooklyn-based Roxy's Tee Parlor takes New Orleans imagery as its inspiration. In pale green for men or on a grey American Girl tee for women, twenty percent of the proceeds go to the rebuilding efforts of Habitat for Humanity on the gulf coast. $24 from Artez'n.

Pees on Earth

In one of Tom Robbins' famously trippy diatribes, he theorizes that humans were invented by water as a means of transport. The mythology of pee is one way to read New York-born photographer Ellen Jong's photo-essay, Pees on Earth, a document of her worldwide outdoor pissing project. Another is as a practice in the spirit of Duchamp, a giggly, slightly subversive appropriation of public space …