Link About It: This Week’s Picks

COS comes to America, soccer mania at Dazed, a Plutonian moon's underground ocean and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Porcelain Pieces Combine Street Fighter with Ai Weiwei’s 1995 “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” piece and you get the work of German artist Martin Klimas. In his “Porcelain Figurines,” the Düsseldorf-based photographer drops the fragile statues to the ground and captures them as they shatter, injecting a dynamic quality into the rigid pieces. 2. An Ocean on Pluto’s Moon According to a new NASA …

Feminist Phone Intervention

COS comes to America, soccer mania at Dazed, a Plutonian moon's underground ocean and more in our weekly look at the web

An anonymous New Yorker has created a service for women in sketchy pick-up situations. The service—dubbed Feminist Phone Intervention—is a fake phone number to give out if feeling threatened, pressured or uncomfortable when asked for your digits. Give the number and when your pursuer calls or messages, they will receive a text with an automatically-generated quotation from feminist writer and social activist, bell hooks. It’s …

Porcelain Pieces

COS comes to America, soccer mania at Dazed, a Plutonian moon's underground ocean and more in our weekly look at the web

Combine Street Fighter with Ai Weiwei’s 1995 “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” piece and you get the work of German artist Martin Klimas. In his “Porcelain Figurines,” the Düsseldorf-based photographer drops the fragile statues to the ground and captures them as they shatter, injecting a dynamic quality into the rigid pieces.