Month: September 2013
Street artist Cirio just put up a new piece on McKibbin Street in Brooklyn, as it looks like on Google Street view. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMAL New York) […]
This morning, I headed down to Zuccotti Park, formerly known as Liberty Plaza to witness what I assumed would be a massive celebration of Occupy Wall Street’s two year anniversary. Only about 120 people showed up — at least 30% of them were journalists — and protesters who carried large bags or held signs on […]
And now, a musical interlude! Hoover Boys are the world’s first vacuum cleaner band. Enjoy their newest recording, Tulips from Amsterdam (Tulpen aus Amsterdam). A beautiful waltz with 4 voices entirely played on vacuum cleaners! From the German Art Magazin: Vacuum cleaner salesman – they were used to be the boring types in gray. But after […]
By many accounts, Zuccoti Park is much quieter today, on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, than it was last year or during the movement’s 2011 inception. Still, that hasn’t stopped police from harassing protesters like they always do, or from taking advantage of a 150-year-old law that allows them to arrest anyone wearing […]
Last year, artist Andrew Ohanesian built a fully functioning replica of a suburban home inside Pierogi Gallery’s Boiler in Brooklyn. I was there, in a manner of speaking, before the overturning of the bed and ceiling punching and the “Punk Rock for Rich Kids” wall writing, but everyone wilded out. The artist pretended to be mad but […]
“We have something for you. You’re going to like it.” “What is it?… Oh? Oh!!! Uh oh.” When new media artist James George and tech-savvy photographer Alexander Porter popped the tiny appendage on my iPhone a few months ago for a test drive, I knew I was going to have too much fun with it. The #slyPhone is a single-mirror laser […]
After 11 years of waiting, the moment is finally approaching: Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s three-term reign comes to a close January 1, 2014. To celebrate, we’ve created HowLongUntilBloombergLeaves.com, a single-serving site that counts down the time–to the second–until El Bloombito says adios. Come through, watch as Bloomberg’s time in office drains out of a 17-oz soda […]
Have you heard? A gold iPhone coming out soon and people are freaking out. Apple re-re-re-re-release improvements may be incremental, but Apple fans enamored with the device are already searching high and low for the quickest to get their hands on the exclusive new upgrade. You’re in luck! Thanks to 3D-printing and F.A.T. lab’s Addie Wagenknecht, you don’t […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes from the spacey funk-soul band the Stepkids, who compiled a mix of classic funk, contemporary electronic music, and one incredible deep cut–a Wendy’s training video called “Grill Skillz” from […]
Bruce High Quality Foundation, an anonymous Brooklyn-based artist collective, have been pretty busy lately: there’s a BHQF exhibition on view at the Brooklyn Museum and a new round of free BHQF University courses beginning soon at group’s Manhattan based location. And now, BHQF is releasing a series of “How To” videos on MOCAtv’s YouTube channel that we’re big fans of. Judging from the short trailer […]
