Month: May 2013
Yesterday we told you the federal civil rights trial of stop-and-frisk was drawing to a close, and that Judge Shira Scheindlin gave an interview saying that she wouldn’t go soft on the city government just because it’s the city government. Today, we’re pleased to say that the judge was true to her word. During yesterday’s closing […]
In an effort to produce snacks that are fit for long-distance space travel, NASA awarded a $125,000 to mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor to develop a 3D printer for food. Their first endeavor, naturally, will be pizza. According to the Verge, each “building block” of a particular food will exist as a powdered “ink,” and building […]
Over the weekend, mayoral candidate and music video maven Jimmy McMillan attended the opening of a brand-new Papaya King on St. Mark’s, where the historic hot dog chain formally endorsed him for mayor. To mark the occassion, McMillan whipped up a signature frank–sauerkraut, relish, and mustard–and handed out a few to the throngs of people who […]
Brad, Chelsea. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The NYPD is on the scene in Hell’s Kitchen to protect, serve, and text while driving a tow truck. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Why waste your vacation days on afk trips to exotic lands when you can take a birds-eye tour from Russia to South Africa, without leaving the comfort of your work desk? NASA just created this incredible 19-Gigapixel sweeping filmstrip by stitching together series of images of Earth taken by Landsat satellites since 1972. The mind-blowing natural […]
Venus Webcam was a stand-out new media piece at the F.A.T. Gold 5-Year Retrospective at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. It also got ANIMAL kicked off Facebook for two days, after we posted the project documentation — “art boobs,” sort of. Today, Eyebeam’s booth for Internet Week New York (#IWNY) at the Metropolitan Pavilion got censored. In physical space. With a curtain. Yes, […]
We’re one step closer to a beautiful, terrifying utopia in which we stop staring into computers all day every day and simply become them. A team of MIT researchers led by Rahul Sarpeshkar have developed a working calculator built entirely from living E. coli bacterial cells, capable of “performing addition, division and power-law computations,” according to SciLogs. It’s not the first […]
Need an extra caffeine jolt in the morning but have no time drink a cup of Joe? Good news. Here’s a recent patent filed by Colgate/Palmolive for a new type of toothbrush equipped with additional substance-dispersing widget embedded into its design, just below the bristles in the “body” of the toothbrush itself. The patent is not all about […]
Whether or not these photos instantly trigger flashbacks of your repressed, guilt-ridden Catholic youth, there’s something about Billie Mandle’s Reconciliation that’s both sad and quite lovely. Hoping to capture the “relationship between the tangible structure of the confessional and the intangible ritual of the space,” Mandle, who is a Catholic, began photographing confessional booths all around the U.S. […]
