Month: May 2013
This is not a cartoon. This is real, almost. The MTA is currently testing a giant thirty-foot inflatable “plug” that when filled with air would protect cities’ most vulnerable subway stops from the threat of floods and extreme weather conditions. It would, effectively, “seal off New York’s subways” if natural disaster strikes. This balloon was tested […]
Avoiding much of art fair season havoc, some of us may found ourselves at Chelsea Waterside Park when for a few hours on May 10th, the park featured a collection of curious, unique 3D-printed objects, each designed by a group of artists. Concurrently, the objects were offered for sale via the Shapeways website, a service that allows customers to upload […]
Hey, New York. Enjoying the weather today? The warm temperature, the lovely breeze, the breathable atmosphere, the lack of gravity storm vortexes swallowing up the sidewalk as it thunders along towards you? Being on Earth is pretty nice. Now, here’s artist Nickolay Lamm of StorageFront and astrobiologist Marilyn Browning Vogel, taking you through the unpleasantries of interplanetary New Yorks. […]
For her ITP class project, NYU student/designer Xuedi Chen used 3D-printing software and chia seeds to spawn these mossy fashion accessories. Their origins are somewhat grotesque: The Invasive Growth Series was directly inspired by a parasitic fungus. The cordyceps operates by infecting an insect with spores, growing inside the insect while performing a sort of “mind control” […]
The artist Haroon Mirza — best known for his artwork featuring “found electrical appliances together with audio compositions to create site-specific installations” — is in a new solo exhibition /o/o/o/o/ at London’s Lisson Gallery, opening today. However, there’s no reason we can’t enjoy a bit of it on our side of the pond. As part of the show, the artist […]
The East River Ferry isn’t only for tourists. It’s actually a convenient and scenic way for New Yorkers to avoid the subways and see the city from the water. All aboard! Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
When you’re shopping, are you aware of exactly what it is that you’re buying, and which parent company benifits? It would be pretty crazy to have all that information on hand, but luckily for us, “there’s an app for that.” Buycott is a new app available on iPhone and Android that allows you to scan […]
Meet “the ultimate god mode.” From Special Stage Systems, here is Ming Mecca. Essentially, it is a new hybrid analog machine — a synthesizer that allows you control, manipulate, and hack the laws and visuals of vintage video games. Watch that trailer. With the heart of a video synthesizer and the brain of a videogame console, Ming Mecca […]
The week-long Brooklyn festivities celebrating beautiful creep Henry Miller are mid-swing. Through Sunday, City Reliquary is showing off the writer’s “original manuscripts, letters,” etc as Henry Miller’s Memorial Library project hangs out on the East Coast. It’s called “Big Sur,” after a place that Miller actually liked, unlike Brooklyn. The New Yorker reminds you that Henry Miller […]
Ellis, Chelsea. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
