Month: September 2013
Last night, a crazy guy was running in the street near Port Authority and trying to get hit by cars, so he was confronted by NYPD officers at the corner of 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. He reportedly reached into his pocket, and pulled out his MetroCard and mimicked shooting police with it. Two officers […]
A Times Square Elmo unmasked… and he’s a woman. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Italian artist Filippo Minelli became fascinated with smokebombs after viewing them in use during various political protests. Keeping that in mind, the artist chose to photograph many of these smokebombs in a rather unusual setting. Instead of seeing these immense color saturated plumes of smoke arising from the chaotic scenes of a protest, the artist chose […]
In August, we noted how researchers from the University of Maryland stirred up some controversy when they said evidence now indicates that the Voyager 1 spacecraft–launched in 1977–has left the Solar System and is cruising around interstellar space complete with a gold plated record detailing man’s existence intended for extraterrestrials. NASA announced on Thursday that […]
Here’s a wonderful photo series from Marc Hermann, who took vintage crime scene photos from the Daily News’s archives, then edited them together with current-day location shots. There’s the Sacred Hearts & Stephen Church burning above the BQE, a big 1940’s car slamming into a lightpole at Classon and Pacific, a fire at 31 Grand Street, […]
The gas station on the corner of 24th Street and 10th Avenue looks different, now with grassy knolls and artificial sheep. It officially opens next week, but here’s your sneak peek at the installation from earlier today. These sheep are the sculptural works of the late French artist Francois-Xavier Lalanne. The completed “Sheep Station” installation will […]
From the guy who brought you superhero post-punks like Superman Morrissey and Batman Ian Curtis comes Smells Like Hadouken!, a series of prints that, for whatever reason, reimagines grunge-era rockers as characters from the classic fighting game Street Fighter. Seeing Billy Corgan as Dahlsim justifies the entire bizarre concept. […]
Seeing as privacy is quickly becoming more of a concern in our daily lives, the simple act of charging your phone or any other USB equipped device in a public place now comes along with a set of risks. In a type of attack known as “juice jacking,” malicious parties can siphon data from your […]
The stated aim of the University of Houston Digital Library is to “showcase digital collections of materials documenting the history of the University of Houston, City of Houston, and State of Texas,” and on that note, they’ve recently acquired the collected album art of legendary Houston graphic design firm Pen & Pixel. Most widely known […]
The mechanical gear as we know it today was invented a very long time ago (sometime around 300 B.C.E.) and has since become an tool in the operation of modern machinery. However, it’s become apparent that mother nature may have beaten us to it many ages ago. Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton, biologists from the University of Cambridge, […]
