Month: June 2013
According to New York City Administrative Code § 17-172, basically every place that serves food has to hang “a sign graphically depicting the Heimlich Maneuver or a comparable technique instructing on how to dislodge food from a choking person” in an area where it can be easily viewed by the public, or face a fine. […]
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. Between a new single, a new album coming (we hope), and an awesome rebuff to those who dismissed her last record, M.I.A. seems poised for a full-on comeback. In […]
If you like immersive GIF landscape work of Nicolas Sassoon and Emilio Gomariz, here’s some new work from Alex Bond aka Enso.In the fourth installment of the second series of net exhibitions, the ANI GIF online gallery presents… ALEX BOND, an artist residing in Philadelphia, PA. He creates bright psychedelic artwork and live visuals, bathing walls in light […]
Put on a bucket hat, do the cooking dance, add some net art aesthetics and #90sKid pop cultural references, and you’ve got yourself a pretty banging rap video circa 2013. Technically, Yung Lean is from Sweden, but really, he’s a child of the internet, and as such, all of the above make appearances in “Hurt,” his […]
The sizable slice of all articles people seem to be reading and sharing on the internet are formated as “listicles” — short form, single-serving lists, paginated into long-form clicking to create the maximum amount of pageviews. It can quickly become a nuisance to click on each and every slide in order to view the entire contents of […]
Lone cowboy with wanderlust embarks on soul-searching adventure, meets girl who wants to settle down, gets torn between love and the open road… It’s a story we’ve heard before, but somehow, Janapar manages to come off as fresh and original. Maybe it’s the gorgeous shots of the exotic, off-the-beaten-path landscapes that protagonist Tom Allen bikes […]
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of a library,” Jorge Luis Borges famously said. But did the author and librarian imagine that paradise would struggle with constant budget cuts, feel stale and municipal, neglected and slowly decaying as the world’s collective attention span is reduced to 140 characters? Or, maybe, he […]
Susan, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The protest against the development of the Domino Sugar Factory into a condo complex continues in Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s the first documented goose slaughter of 2013’s molting season. Volunteers with GooseWatch NYC encountered a roundup of about 10 birds and their goslings in progress at Inwood Hill Park this morning and snapped the above photo as USDA agents were leaving. The city contracts the USDA to kill off geese each year in an attempt […]
