Month: January 2013
Two and a half months after Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and over a week after House of Representatives leadership let the 112th Congress end without a vote, a $50.7 billion relief package has passed through the House. One hundred ninety-two Democrats and 49 Republicans voted “yes” on the […]
Dean, Bryant Park. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
BAST illegal beautifies an ad for a storefront space in Soho. (Photo: Jake Dobkin/Flickr) […]
Catch Wonderwoman with her pants down, see Spiderman get really into dental hygiene and peep some hot hero on hero action in this series of posters by Greg Guillemin. Private moments. Big personalities. Voyeuristic crops. And they’re all for sale. Because waking up to Batman and Robin macking on your wall is an em-super-powering experience. […]
We had so much fun putting our faces into things with Overlayer from ANIMAL favorite OKFocus… But wait, there’s more. From artsits Pinar&Viola, DAZED and OKFocus, here’s a fresh new set of webcam filters, featuring some complex net art trompe-l’oeils to mug through. Uh, so, we had a lot of fun again … and you can too! There was a demon robot for Bucky, […]
New York-based artist Matthew Matthew‘s project On a Human Scale has already turned the faces in the crowds of New York City and Guadalajara into a singing parts of a giant musical instrument. There’s an individual for each note on the scale, projected on a gridded screen and connected to a hacked mini-piano… Watch them get played. For the […]
Edmund Helmert, the creative mind behind BoxOfficeQuant, can be thought of as a kind of Nate Silver for the film industry–researching, plotting, and analyzing data about movies, with hopes to “report on the financial state of the industry and attempt to predict its future.” For his latest project, he used this beautiful circular histogram to […]
You are looking at a most exquisite pairing of lit city grids photographed from the International Space Station and neural networks imaged with fluorescence microscopy. The colossal, the minuscule the electric, the organic. They are the same. Something about fractals? Mind… blown. The duos assembled by Infinity Imagined should give you feelings, deep feelings of being one of a whole and […]
Not much to say with this one: the good people of Thrash Lab (who previously made this gorgeous document of pumpkin carnage) went to Tahoe to show you the 10 most brutal ways to destroy a snowman. Naturally, everything is filmed in gorgeous slow motion, and with the eerily warm winter we’re having, all this […]
In 1993, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin were convicted of grizzly torture, mutilation and murder of three prepubescent boys. There was no DNA evidence. The case was muddled with legal misconduct and overshadowed by the Evangelical Christian town’s Salem-style panic. They called them “Satanists.” The West Memphis Three were released from prison in 2011. […]
