Month: May 2013
GOREY, HORFE, TOMEK, ESSO, and SKUB of the Peace and Love graffiti crew out of Paris painted a wall on the LES to promote their exhibit at Klughaus Gallery and the New Museum’s New Ideas City Festival. (Photo: Klughaus Gallery) […]
Over the past 30 years, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade has become the country’s largest art parade. With its shimmering, extravagant floats, fabulously zany performers, and pastie-plastered nips as far as the eye can see, there’s really nothing like it. But after Sandy destroyed the freakshow, museum, and performance space whose revenue provides funding, this […]
So, Seinfeld is like some new artist inside joke now? WHATEVER RICHARD PRINCE. Fine, don’t tell me. Here’s a fresh and amazing datamosh mash-up of dozens of Kramer entrances. Look at him moshing up pixels with that door swing. Look, look. PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (2013) is described thusly: the satellite connection to jerry’s memory goes out. kramer […]
Ever wonder how that Russian meteor from earlier this year stacks up against history’s other giant space rocks? This interactive visualization from designer Carlo Zapponi might help. Dubbed Bolides, it tracks every meteorite that’s touched down on Earth since 86 A.D. with classy 8-bit visuals, placing special emphasis on those that were witnessed by someone firsthand. […]
Oculus Rift — the very same virtual reality platform that that 90-year-old woman enjoys so very much — has gotten its very own guillotine simulator. The artificial dismemberment add-on called DisUnion was developed at the Exile Game Jam, a five-day game development “retreat” in which developers meet, hang out, and collaborate on their own independent projects. The creators insist […]
Great news! NYC has seen a decrease in violent crime during the first quarter of the year, with shootings and murders dropping by 24% and 40%, respectively. Incidentally, the number of Stop-and-Frisks carried out by the NYPD has also gone down significantly during this time period. “From January 1 through March 31 of this year, […]
Yelp is great and all, but it’s seriously lacking in the get-me-to-the-nearest-pizza-as-soon-as-possible department. I mean, think about it: First, you have to open search, then type “pizza,” then figure out which result is the closest, then select it and ask Yelp to give you directions. Thankfully, Pizza Compass, released this week, simplifies that process significantly. […]
Dutch design group Trapped in Suburbia has just released an interactive poster that doubles as a musical instrument. Sound Poster 1.0 is apparently the first in a series of “analogue meets digital experiments,” and was created using a touch-responsive “conductive paint” that allows you to create different sounds by moving your hand over the poster’s […]
“Misunderstanding Focus” is a very clean series of portraits from Japanese collaborators Hiiroshi Manaka and Yoshiharu Ota, aka Nerhol. Nerhol shot continuous photographs of each subject for three minutes, instructing them to stay as still as you can but they can’t. They fucked up. They moved, a little bit. The slightly different portraits were then cut and stacked in a […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes from our friends in the Boston garage trio Banditas, whose 2012 release Save the Rats I’d recommend to any fans of boozey, bluesy rock and roll. The mix, curated by bandleader […]
