Want to step inside a giant projection of binary code and pulsating digital soundscape? This Friday, Japan’s pride, joy, electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda brings the transfinite into the 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory, transforming it into an audio-visual environment that will transfix your physical senses. Read more »
We love supercuts, from blah blah blah to bang bang. Kudos to this tech-nerdy, high concept, totally random series of supercut supercuts. Behold! The Supersupercut. Read more »
The cops call it “Operation Lucky Bag.” It’s an on and off again sting operation whereby the NYPD leaves valuables/cash/credit cards in a public place and If someone picks up those items, they are placed under arrest, regardless if they were good intentioned or not. Read more »
In a creep move, the U.S. Marshals Service is auctioning 60 lots of domestic terrorist Theodore Kaczynski’s personal effects seized by the FBI, including rant letters, the typewriter Ted used to write his UNABOM Manifesto, his thrifty bank statement and DIY “tool kits.” The sale starts today. “The proceeds will go to his victims and, in a very small way, offset some of the hardships they have suffered” meanwhile fashioning some fetishist/ironic richie with the signature Unabomber gray hooded sweatshirt and aviator sunglasses.
It’s not easy to stand out amongst a crowd of 13,000 or yellow cabs, but six taxi drivers have managed to do so by way of low brow luxury vehicles. The New York Times reports on an “elite club of cabbies” who wouldn’t be caught dead driving a Crown Victoria and have decided to go with Lexus hybrids instead. They’re truly fond of their vehicles since they offer some semblance of “individuality,” but that could all come to screeching halt in a few years when the TLC implements its Taxi of Tomorrow program, unless the city grandfathers them in. Otherwise, it’s back to differentiating themselves using bumper stickers.
A Daily News reporter says that cops are entrapping subway riders by leaving emergency exit gates wide open in the hopes that they’ll walk through them instead of swiping their MetroCards.
Artist Jenny Morgan’s oils are part “pretty hyperrealism,” part “gritty psychedelia” – slightly-off portraits of her presumably arty friends. Their orb-obstructed faces and limbs melting into color are meant to reveal “spiritual cores.” See the dynamic, melting mugs with a side of mystical lingo at her solo show: “One and the Many,” Jenny Morgan, May 13 – Jun 19, Like the Space Gallery, Brooklyn
After spending more than three decades in captivity, Ming Ming, the world’s oldest giant panda is dead at the age of 34. The animal actually died at a zoo in China over a week ago of natural causes, but officials decided not to tell anyone till now.
We’re big fans of Cleon Peterson’s meticulously-constructed orgies of ultraviolence: His narrative panels are akin to graphic novels and his depressing social commentary is festively hued. Peterson’s latest series deals with wars between individuals: “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Read more »
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