NYC Airport Overhaul

Frank Gehry tells off contemporary architecture, Google maps the desert on camelback and Marcel the Shell returns in our weekly look at the web

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced plans to greatly improve NYC’s two airports, both LaGuardia and JFK. While specifics have yet to be announced—like when construction will begin and who will fund it—a design competition will begin by the end of November, giving participants 60 days to develop their plans.

The Disaster Issue

Skateboarding Helsinki airport, picking Jeff Koons' brain, JetBlue stocks cricket bars and more in our weekly look at the web

The witty DIS Magazine, subverting the hierarchy and language of over-styled fashion and art magazines, ignites an atypically hopeful discussion on the “unpleasant and unattractive subject” of ecology from the perspective of art and culture. This “disaster” issue features interviews with Christian environmental groups, reporting from the People’s Climate Change March, a “music for plants” mix and more—and it’s probably unlike any climate change-related coverage …

From Jack-o’-Lantern to Pumpkinstein

Skateboarding Helsinki airport, picking Jeff Koons' brain, JetBlue stocks cricket bars and more in our weekly look at the web

California farmer Tony Dighera is giving the traditional Jack-o’-Lantern a run for its money by bringing “Pumpkinstein” to life. Dighera grew over 5,000 Frankenstein-faced pumpkins in his first year, which he created by growing the pumpkins in a plastic mold that he designed. The entire crop of monstrous squash has already been sold, at $75 a head.