Month: May 2013
Of all the porny Tumblrs that Yahoo purchased for $1.1 billion last year, Just Another Ikea Catalog (NSFW) is off the BJÄRNUM aluminum folding hook! Peruse “scandinavian modern style furniture and accessories in amateur pornography” in GIF form, complete with annotations and links to where one might find this EXPEDIT shelving unit (NSFW) upon which “a hairy brunette” could get “fucked” […]
When Casey Neistat’s bike was stolen, he decided to take action. The New York City filmmaker lost his ride after locking it up through the stem rather than the frame due to a lack of good spots on his block. As Neistat himself explains in the video above, “what this means is that any enterprising […]
Each time you step on to the subway, you’re joining quite a large crowd of bacteria. How large? Microbiologist Norman R. Pace published a study this week detailing the roughly one billion tiny organisms living in every two cubic meters of air in the transit system–about the amount one person breathes each day. But don’t […]
David, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The coveted Williamsburg Bridge spot is no longer CASH4’s. (Photo: Sheryl Yvette/Flickr) […]
In a vacant New York City water tower, four experience designers created a modern speakeasy called the Night Heron. It was only open for an eight week run, each night risking arrest — the owner of the building never knew of the bar’s presence. Guests were led on a trespass journey through a series of vacant […]
When it comes to Mexico’s drug cartel crisis, we rarely hear any news that’s short of devastating. Canadian photojournalist Brett Gundlock, however, tells the incredible story of one small village’s victory against the cartels through his series La Puebla seen on Wired. After successfully driving away a cartel-backed group of loggers who’d completely destroyed their surrounding forest, […]
The Nuclear Safety Authority in France came down on the usage of X-Ray machines in art. This decision came following an exhibition titled Hand Games by French artist Marc Ferrante, featuring some 100 radiographic images of participants’ hands. The ASN recalled that Public Health Code prohibits the use of ionizing radiation for non-medical purposes under Article L1333-11 and… Although […]
Back in the day, when graffiti writers painted subway cars, it was the elevated lines — as you can imagine — that gave them the most exposure. Trains became rolling canvasses that would traverse New York City, from end to end, bearing the namesakes of these outlaw artists. To celebrate the pioneers from this iconic […]
At some point during his Google Maps-scouring endeavors, German artist Daniel Schwarz noticed a strange phenomenon: the apparent coexistence of two contrasting seasons in the same place. Juxtapose is a collection of these glitched-out images, mostly of remote locations, taken directly from Google Maps. Although the satellite images give users a godlike power in jumping from […]
