Month: May 2013
Several sections of the subway that support elevated tracks are in dire need of inspection, according to a report from the MTA Inspector General’s office. No records exist of detailed inspections of elevated A, C, 2, 3, and L train sections in Brooklyn, and three sections of the 7 haven’t been looked at in 15 […]
Gillian, East River. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A platoon of seemingly child-soldiers invade the Flushing Avenue J/M station. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
How did you live so long without a device that sends you a tweet whenever your infant urinates all over him or herself ? It’s a difficult question, but thankfully not one that you’ll have to wrestle with any longer, thanks to Huggies. That company’s Brazilian wing is responsible for TweetPee, a little plastic device […]
Language is constantly changing — if you were to travel just a few decades back in time and tell someone that, say, your boo’s got mad swag when she twerks in those jeggings, they’d look at you like you were batshit (there’s another one) — and that’s just within recent American English. And now, a […]
Next week, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center — shout out Eyebeam! — will present video_dumbo’s eight annual moving image art festival. The ongoing exhibition will feature work from 106 international contemporary artists, including fourteen video screenings and eight works that make up the concurrent installation — Re-Return to Sender. The collection explores the history and metamorphosis of moving image as an artform, from […]
Sick of people on Twitter constantly spoiling your favorite tv shows before you even get the chance to watch them? Today is your lucky day, because Jennie Lamere — the only female to participate in the Boston Hackathon — has created Twivo. This simple Twitter add-on filters your newsfeed, eliminating any spoilers of last night’s episode of Whatever That […]
Amanda Ghassaei, the woman who brought you 3D-printed records, is back with yet another impressive alternative to vinyl: laser-cut maple and plywood. And not only do the wooden records look real pretty, they sound a hell of a lot better than their printed-plastic counterparts. But wood is still nowhere near bona fide vinyl, unfortunately. With […]
The artist Tino Sehgal is widely known for his one-time social encounters, producing an artwork that only occupies space and time in the process. These works are often referred to by Seghal as “constructed situations” and are not exactly the type of thing you usually see occupying the booths of art fairs. Yet, this year […]
Andres Serrano rehashed controversy with the NY showing of his classic Piss Christ last September, and now the artist has moved onto something slightly more mainstream. The Belgian road safety organization Parents of Road Victims, in collaboration with Happiness Brussels, has given him the creative reigns for their latest anti-texting-and-driving campaign. Serrano’s response: Three dramatic, macabre photo […]
