Month: May 2013
This is 0.5 seconds of Johnson & Johnson trading activity on May 2, 2013. It’s slowed down 720x and stretched out to six seconds. Woah woah woah. Explained: Each box represents one exchange. The SIP (CQS in this case) is the box at 6 o’clock. It shows the National Best Bid/Offer. Watch how much it […]
Kirin J Callinan’s video for “Embracism” by Cara Stricker might be too much for you. Might be a little too much lanky wet man for you, naked for the occasional strategically placed guitar and FUCK YEAH DATAMOSH. What him glitch himself out. Shout out datamosh music video pioneer Yung Jake. Shout out those cracy sci-fi theatre club kids […]
Ai Weiwei is powerful artist, badass, oppressive government agitator, metal musician… BARBER??? Sign me up, b. We’ve seen this scene in the doc Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. The much-liked artist has sidewalk soirees. Culture people come. Regular denizens too. They all, like, dine and chill and make gov goons unhappy just by existing, yeah? Well, here’s one journalist’s […]
It’s hard to imagine Times Square before it became the Disneyfied, Toys-R-Us-bag-toting-tourist-and-kiddie-infested postcard of Capitalist America that we hate so dearly today. Luckily, we’ve come across the photo collection of Gregoire Alessandrini to remind us that those days were more than just folklore. While attending a local film school in the mid-90’s, Alessandrini always carried […]
Bitcoin: Currency of the future! Speculative bubble! Somewhere in between those two! Wherever you stand on the viability of the hot-button crypto-currency, chances are you’ve seen (and potentially been beguiled by) references to Bitcoin mining, the process by which hyper-powerful computers work through a series of hyper-complicated computations in hopes of stumbling across some digital […]
Blueprint files for the world’s first fully 3D-printed gun were pulled offline this week after the State Department requested Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson pull them from his website. The gun, dubbed the Liberator, was being hosted on DEFCAD, a website created by Wilson to host files for firearms and other potentially controversial items, where […]
After coming across this video of a group of Hasidic men intimidating cyclist Rafael Huerta, we reached out to Huerta to ask for his perspective on the incident. He explained that he records all of his bike rides, Russian dashcam-style, for protection in the even of an incident like this one, and that it was […]
Today is the opening of not one, but two of three Paul McCarthy exhibitions that will run throughout New York City this Spring. The three related exhibitions will be scattered throughout the city and accompanied by an outdoor sculpture presentation. Well, we’re not complaining. Why can’t it always be “Paul McCarthy Season?” Today, at both of Hauser & Wirth’s […]
Three years after the debut of her sublimely bizarre web series Green Porno was received with critical acclaim, Isabella Rossellini is back with more animal mating ritual-inspired genius.Just in time for Mother’s Day, the third installment of Green Porno offers viewers some colorful reenactments “creatures’ rites of passage into motherhood.” See Rossellini simulate the scandalous […]
These are the people that make sure you get to work, safe and relatively on time. It was difficult to snap their portraits, as you may imagine, but I set up a stake-out around the Grand Central and Times Square stops this morning to bring you these photos of subway train conductors. Stand clear of […]
