Month: May 2013
For a borough that’s literally an island, Manhattan’s waterfront access is pretty bleak: NYC’s waterways are generally more notorious for easy corpse disposal and abundant toxic waste than for fun in the sun. But (possibly) not for long! Last night, the full proposal were released for the long-awaited East River Blueway The vision has been brewing for […]
Need to make a wish but can’t leave your desk? Sit tight and head to wishingwell.biz, a website by Harm van den Dorpel that allows you to toss in your “coins” with a simple Paypal interface. There is no information on the site, but it seems pretty self-explanatory. Just select your currency of choice and make as many wild […]
Ooh, maps, magical old maps. They whisk us away to far off lands, to times of adventure and mystery, when there were no satellites or planes and we weren’t all a bunch of jaded google-it-alls. They’re also just really cool looking. The Digital Public Library of America just hit the jackpot, acquiring over 38,000 antiquated maps and other […]
These photos were captured by three smartphones as they orbited the Earth onboard the Antares rocket last month. The gadgets were in space as part of NASA’s “PhoneSats” project, a mission that sought to test whether a piece of consumer electronics could serve as the “main flight avionics” –that is to say, the brain–of a […]
For After Hours 2’s “Murals on the Bowery” project, several artists transformed security gates into… security gates with art on them. A few have already been bombed. Here are some of those gates on the Bowery, from Houston Street to Grand Street. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in […]
In case you’re wondering, Russian dash-cams don’t just capture terrible crashes, fist fights, meteorites, tanks and crooked cops. Here is a beautiful, beautiful reel of the good people doing the good things Jalopnik found. Watch drivers hop out of their cars to walk old ladies across the intersection, catch stray animals, brush off snow from their […]
In, perhaps, trying to one up the Palo Alto Facebook HQ’s very expensive David Choe murals, Facebook’s Seattle office got a really cooool hot tub with cooool graffiti by “Weirdo” on it. The landlord of the building doesn’t get down with a hot tub in that office, and had them drill a hole in the tub […]
When Mayor Bloomberg gave his seething defense of stop-and-frisk this week, one thing he touched on was the murder of Alphonza Bryant, a 17-year-old who was gunned down in the Bronx last month. Opponents of the stop-and-frisk would allow more deaths like Bryant’s, Bloomberg’s logic went, because the controversial NYPD practice curtails gun violence. Jenaii […]
Music fans have always been obsessive categorizers, but lately, the endless parade of genres, subgenres and scenes feels like it’s nearing critical mass. Fortunately, Massachusetts-based designer and developer Glenn McDonald created “Every Noise at Once,” an interactive musical map that covers everything, from new weird America to neue Deutsche welle. One click of a genre […]
Why do Americans know so little about the real goings-on of their country? Fox News has the answers, right after this commercial break. […]
