Month: May 2013
Look at that. That minimalist Dan Flavin knew what he was doing, am I right? Sure, his signature sculptural fluorescent light installations looked good at the Dia or, say, at the Wissenschaftspark Rheinelbe in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, but don’t they look hot in a SoHo loft? Fellow famous minimalist Donald Judd lived here and you can now rent the renovated loft from […]
Our friends at Complex put together this list of the “25 Douchiest Bars in NYC Right Now,” a pretty spot-on assessment of everything fratty, loud, and wrong with New York nightlife. Just when you think they’re doing a little too much grabbing at the low-hanging douche in Murray Hill and Midtown, some more contentious picks […]
Still freaking out about NASA’s latest efforts to 3D print a pizza, there’re even sweeter developments in the emerging technology. It is now possible to 3D print with sugar as a medium. New micro-design firm the Sugar Lab originally intended to 3D print an entire birthday cake for a friend. Due to their initial failed attempts, the team decided to compromise […]
Net neutrality–the idea that internet service providers shouldn’t limit or regulate or throttle access to specific websites–is essential to keeping the freewheeling openness that made the internet so great in the first place. Here in the U.S., the net is pretty much neutral, but there are no laws protecting it. That is to say, Time […]
Almost two years after his release from Chinese prison, dissident artist Ai Weiwei addresses his politically motivated 80 day incarceration with S.A.C.R.E.D., currently on view at the Venice Biennale. It’s a series of six dioramas, each representing a scene from his time behind bars — in fiberglass and iron, 377 x 198 x 153 cm. Set inside boxes which […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. It seems fitting that James Murphy should face off against Beck. Both were musical omnivores, both serially repurposed bygone sounds toward their own ends, and each is entirely of the […]
In this YouTube clip from Russia, a grizzly bear tumbles through the grass, hula hoops, plays the trumpet while dancing and appears to be gesturing obscenely while sitting in a chair at around 2:00. Isn’t this bear amazing? Isn’t this bear impressive? Wow. That’s really amazingly impressive. *Insert joke about all that jet fuel they’ve been huffing […]
Can Kenneth Goldsmith do wrong? For his latest endeavor, Museum of Modern Art’s first poet laureate and founding editor of the unstoppable, renegade avant garde media archive UbuWeb wants YOU to print out the entire internet. The idea is simple: print out as much as of the web as you want — be it one sheet or a truckload — send […]
Lately, donation boxes have been popping up around Brooklyn–this Brooklyn Paper article mentions Bay Ridge; I’ve seen them in Sunset Park–run by companies like USAGain, Spingreen, and Green Tree, that collect old clothes from neighborhood residents and vaguely “reuse” them, without much explanation as to what that reusing entails. And while it’s true that […]
Look at the image above, the logo for Everyman Espresso, a coffee shop with locations in SoHo and the East Village. Does it remind you of the state of New York’s iconic “I ♥ NY” mark? Enough for the state to take legal action? That’s exactly what’s happening, as the state’s Department of Economic Development gets its […]
