Month: February 2013
That big one in Siberia wasn’t the first meteorite to touch down on Earth. French journalist Jean Abbiateci and developer Pablo Navarro created the below animated visualization, which maps every meteorite fall from 1900 on onto one global map. And what do we learn? That lots of space rocks have touched down in the U.S. […]
Spanish creative agency Lola Madrid would like to make the most ecologically friendly bike possible, and to do so, they’ve turned to an unlikely source: cars. In the above video, a frame is fashioned from recycled metal, turn signals become reflective lights, a transmission belt becomes a chain, and upholstery gets turned into seat and […]
Subway and bus riders can load both unlimited passes and single ride fares onto the same MetroCard, according to the MTA. The change is designed to help straphangers avoid the $1 charge that will come with all new MetroCard purchases starting March 1st. The new cards will automatically draw from unlimited rides first, then begin […]
A Park Slope good Samaritan is offering to digitally restore damaged photographs for anyone whose home was flooded in Hurricane Sandy. Through Cherished Albums Restoration Effort, an organization she founded after the storm, Lee Kelly organizes drives for people to bring up to 100 waterlogged prints, then farms them out to her global network of […]
Ricardo, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Someone painted block letters, literally, in Red Hook. (Photo: NewYorkStreetArt/Flickr) […]
In December, Houston-born and worldwide recognized graffiti writer NEKST passed away. The prolific art-bomber left him mark in countless cities and eventually aligned with LA’s mighty MSK crew. After his death, NEKST tributes began popping on streets from Houston to New York City and beyond. And now he has been immortalized online by one of […]
I’m not much of a games guy, but I would play the absolute shit out of Riot, a forthcoming title that allows you to play as either protesters or police in a global clash of forces. Of course, whenever real-life conflicts with direct impact on many, many human lives are “ripped from the headlines” for our entertainment, there’s […]
The Library of Congress has added another tour de force to its collection: Emoji Dick, welcome to the literary canon. The 735-page “book” is an adaption of Moby Dick, fully “translated” into emoji form by NYC micro-engineer Fred Benenson (along with thousands of contracted helpers). The Kickstarter-funded project is the first emoji book ever to […]
The “balding brazen” art thief who slipped past several guards and cameras at Venus Over Manhattan gallery last June with a $150,000 Salvador Dalí drawing in his bag, was taken into custody by Homeland Security at JFK on Saturday, after an undercover detective posing as a gallery manager lured him back to New York with […]
