Month: May 2013
Anyone riding their bike to the National‘s show at Barclays Center June 5 won’t have to worry about finding a place to lock it up. For the first time since opening, the arena, with the help of Transportation Alternatives, will be offering a bicycle valet service, free of charge. All attendees have to do is […]
Montreal producer Jacques Greene’s new “On Your Side” video is interactive! Yey. Interactive music videos are popular. Go to Jacques’ site and watch a soothingly hazy video boxes show you flowers, tv static, a lady, some windows and stuff. It’s works really well with the mellow electronic track and if you click and drag the dynamic video […]
As you may have noticed, we like Vine. We like it a lot. So much so that I’m inclined to tell you about Coub, a (terribly named) service that isn’t Vine, but behaves a lot like it. On Vine, users shoot six-second looping videos that they can share across social networks. On Coub, users make […]
Pirate 3D, a startup out of Sinagpore, raised $200,000 dollars in just hours on Kickstarter yesterday. Why? Because it promises to make 3D printing more accessible than ever, with a printer called the Buccaneer that will retail for just $347 and could begin shipping as early as December. Pirate 3D also hopes to lower the barrier […]
Tim, East Williamsburg. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Oh look, the sunset aligned to the Manhattan grid again. Manhattanhenge. Woop. (Photo: Atomix/Flickr) […]
This is just ridiculous. In a new music video for his song “Mon pote,” French rapper Flynt, née Julien Vuidard, seemingly teleports from one iconic movie scene to the next, all the while rapping in his beautiful, satiny French accent about what we can only assume is something endearingly uplifting — “mon pote” means “my buddy” […]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about Metzitzah B’peh, the controversial Orthodox Jewish practice that involves a rabbi sucking (with his mouth) the blood from an infant boy’s penis after circumcising him. At a Jewish Press-sponsored forum last night, a few of the 2013 mayoral candidates got to sound off on the very […]
Facebook Stories is a San Fransisco-based project that invites the internet to create something “extraordinary” from that treasure trove of unrelenting, banal social media over-sharing. Their latest project Beatmap uses data collected from song sharing apps that integrate with Facebook Open Graph to map out the ebb and flow of music popularity across our country. Inspired by “old-school graphic visualizers,” […]
Yesterday, at the Wall Street Journal’s eleventh annual All Things Digital Conference, Regina Dugan of Motorola unveiled a new “vitamin” that when ingested is capable of storing your password data for later use. The vitamin is ingested and “activated” naturally by your stomach acids to create a unique 18-bit signal — an instant password authentication enacted by simply by touching a […]
