Month: October 2013
Massive Attack V Adam Curtis (2013, at Park Avenue Armory) Adam Curtis “documentary” W GIANT IMPORTANT WORDS — a beautiful pulsating super-cut of found-ish footage re: NEWS/GOVERNMENTS/DONALD TRUMP/THE SARCOPHAGUS OF DATA/RUSSIAN PUNK MUSIC FROM SIBERIA/ALGORITHMS OF SUBMISSION/WAR IN AFGHANISTAN… USA/RUSSIA/YOU.. etc. on many LARGE screens. U stand 4 movie but its really a concert. Massive […]
What a way to go. An unidentified man died instantly after crashing his car in Brazil, but the force of the impact wasn’t what killed him; it was the 500 kg (1,100 lbs) of weed he had in the car with him, falling onto and crushing him. The man was reportedly trafficking the cannabis from […]
Reader Jeff Owens sent in this picture of a billboard that seems connected to the NSA-skewering sign in Tribeca we showed you yesterday. This one reads “The internet should be regulated,” and is on the corner of 27th Street and Broadway. Clear Channel confirmed that yesterday’s billboard was part of a teaser advertising campaign, but […]
If you’re a major auction house like Christie’s and Sotheby’s (who isn’t!), you should be looking over your shoulder: China is coming for you. As its middle class grows, the country is doing to high-end art sales what it once did to manufacturing: adopting it and profiting from it. Today, the New York Times profiled the […]
I’m not so great with names but I never forget a face, neither does Facebook with its automatic tagging for newly uploaded face-images. But what if you don’t want to be recognized in last night’s drunk and shameful party photo? Too bad. In an effort to subvert this fact of #life, designer Simone C. Niquille has […]
Artist and composer Ben Grosser created a new Google Chrome extension that, when enabled, automatically adds a passage of additional algorithmically generated text to your emails containing many of the keywords known to trigger the National Security Agency‘s email surveillance systems. This extension, in theory, works as a trap to not only force these systems to […]
Well, this is very strange: Lil Bub, Famous Internet Cat, has a YouTube “talk show,” and her latest guest is Steve Albini. They “talk” about miracles, comedy, and, of course, music, before Albini gives Bub a tour of Electrical Audio, his studio. Bub says Kelley Deal wants her to produce her next single, and we […]
Oh, sorry. Did you not watch the final episode, still? Breaking Bad fans residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico bought a charming little obit mention for the late fictional character. WHITE, WALTER aka “Heisenberg,” 52, of Albuquerque, died Sunday after a long battle with lung cancer, and a gunshot wound. A co-founder of Gray Matter, White was a research […]
It was only a matter of time before Better Out Than In, Banksy’s month of working on the streets of NYC, ventured outside of Manhattan. And unsurprisingly, the first outer-borough works arrived in Williamsburg and Bushwick. The street artist gave a few pieces of citizen graffiti a “Broadway makeover,” slapping the phrase “The Musical” over existing […]
Life in NYC during the federal government shutdown has felt mostly like business as usual, but a few things have changed. The most widely felt effect may be the closing of national parks and monuments, meaning New Yorkers and visitors can’t visit the Governors Island National Monument, Hamilton Grange, or, most notably, the Statue of […]
