Month: May 2013
Watch artist Narcelio Grud forage bins and gutters for squishy, festering, rotting fruit to tropical music. Watch him smear it all over a wall. But wait. That’s a not bad-looking mouth. Look at those red-orange gradients. And he stayed clear of the Rolling Stone-ing or Rocky Horror Picture Show-ing. Not bad for playing with trash. Now go […]
The moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here, people. Watch Jody play his Franco-skewering/celebrating “shady art dealer” character in the One Life to Life clip above, performing circles around a crew of truly dismal actors. Seriously, without RiFF RAFF this thing would feel like softcore porn without any actual sex. Thankfully, I can […]
After the town of Mantoloking, New Jersey was devastated by Hurricane Sandy last year, its citizens decided at least one thing wasn’t worth rebuilding: its telephone lines. The plan seems extreme at first, but when is the last time you actually picked up a landline phone and made a call (incoming calls don’t count)? I’ll wait. […]
Ah, the Met Ball. It’s like, um, various celebrities getting garlanded and vaguely commenting on whatever the Metropolitan Museum of Art happens to be high-profile-hyping at the time. This year they resurrected punk just so they could kill it again. Ok, I’m not really old enough to say that with any validity. I am, however, old enough to […]
Earlier this spring, we told you New York state legislators were moving to ban the sale of shark fins, a process that often targets abandoned species, subjecting them to what the Humane Society calls “extreme cruelty.” Today, we can happily say that the state Assembly has unanimously voted to pass the ban, and that the […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is pretty much the last place you’d expect to find a festering, piss-ridden, poster-and-grafitti-covered bathroom. But those who attended yesterday’s press preview for PUNK: Chaos to Couture found just that: In fact, the Costume Institute exhibit has dedicated an entire room to recreating the late CBGB’s legendary bathroom. Basically, the microcosm of […]
Hugh, Bushwick. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
The ever-changing graffiti spot on the Williamsburg Bridge is currently being held down by CASH4. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
For her project The Real Life Models, Budapest-based photographer Flora Borsi imagined what the subjects of abstract paintings would have actually looked like if they’d been painted with anatomical precision. She Photoshopped images of herself to recreate models painted by Picasso, Modigliani, Hausner and Malevich, warping her features and proportions down to the last bizarre detail. If Borsi’s […]
What happens when you can’t connect to the internet on-the-go? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Ushahidi, a non-profit tech company based in Africa is hoping to change all that with what they call “a backup generator for the internet.” BRCK is not exactly a new technology, but it’s a great way to use older technology yet much more wisely. […]
