Month: May 2013
The MTA celebrated restoring A train service yesterday with this at the Rockaway Park-Beach 116 Street station. (Photo: Patrick Cashin/Metropolitan Transportation Authority) […]
Whether you hunt and slaughter your own meat or won’t eat anything that casts a shadow, this is the most life-affirming video on Reddit today and you should watch it. See, little Luiz Antonio just realized that the octopus he’s eating is “real” and it doesn’t have a head because a man at the market chopped […]
In a seemingly unlikely and wonderful collaboration, artist Gary Baseman teamed up with South-African duo Die Antwoord to make… The Buckingham Warrior, a tale inspired by Gary Baseman’s father Ben Baseman who survived the holocaust, fighting the Nazi invasion in Ukraine’s birch tree forests for almost 4 years. Big up to the MOCAtv YouTube channel which has some amazing […]
Last night, Christine Quinn’s Twitter follower count jumped from about 3,500 to about 24,000 overnight. Most of those new followers are almost certainly fake. Fake followers, you ask, but how? Here’s how. Should you care? Probably not. I’d be willing to bet it was some clueless staffer or volunteer who made the call, not Quinn […]
As most ANIMAL readers can attest, we think pigeons are complex, intriguing creatures. Maybe it’s rapid evolution caused by living in harsh urban settings, or a special wisdom inherited from their great messenger pigeon ancestors — but we’ve always suspected that they will one day conquer us all. A new study from the University of Iowa just confirms […]
Austrian-based designer Francesco Morackini has designed “Dildomaker” — a device that’s capable of turning just about anything malleable into a phallus, just in case you didn’t know what to do with all those extra vegetables you’ve been meaning to get around to cooking. The invention works pretty much just like a pencil sharpener. The Dildomaker’s purpose is to provide the […]
Someday, weed will be a major American industry. We’ve known that for a while. Now, one company hopes to be that industry’s first serious player. Dubbed Diego Pellicer, the upstart brand is helmed by a six-year veteran former Microsoft executive Jamen Shively, and hopes to become the first national cannabis chain. They’ve started by buying […]
For Munich’s public art project A Space Called Public, Turner Prize 2013 nominee David Shirgley has been invited to create “outdoor artistic interventions” within the city. And so, Shrigley is creating a shrine to Michael Jackson’s beloved pet monkey Bubbles. The proposed shrine will sit not far from an existing monument to the “King of Pop.” Shrigley eloquently explains that […]
In an exploration of the “relationship between digital and biological fabrication in design,” the MIT media lab joined forces with 6,500 silkworms to create the “Silk Pavilion.” First, the research team developed software that imitated silkworm spinning patterns to create a primary CNC-fabricated 3D structure from 26 polygonal panels. From there, the worms took over, […]
Artist Daniel Edwards has built a career on naked, pregnant and recently dead celebrities with his bronze sculptures and bronze-colored computer renderings. Using leaked 3D ultrasounds, allegedly, he presents to you his latest masterpiece Baby Kimye And The Royal Heir — a sleeping fetus duo. It’s an improvement on his last masterpiece Special K, a sleeping fetus. Lacks a […]
