Month: October 2013
Cascos, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Street artist Phlite is responsible for this wheatpaste in Soho depicting a very sophisticated version of Animal, a traditionally primitive Muppet. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Not all of New York’s aerosol-wielding denizens are out to destroy the work renowned street artist Banksy has been putting up as part of his Better Out Than In campaign that’s currently underway in the city. Witness Krystyna Printup says she snapped photos of a guy in an orange vest and hard hat fixing the […]
“Your data should belong to the NSA,” reads a new billboard on West Broadway near Canal Street. There’s no indication of who put it up–just that phrase, all-caps, against a plain white background. It’s the kind of sly commentary one might expect from Banksy, if he wasn’t busy painting dogs peeing on things. A similar […]
Press play and try to imagine you’ve just taken some very good drugs and just hopped on the subway on your way home. You’re not quite ready for the claustrophobia of the train, but once you’re on, you relax, and it’s actually quite nice. Sit back and enjoy. (If you’re interested, it’s actually Metro, a piece […]
Last week, apartment-finding company Rentenna shared their NYC Green Heatmap for Manhattan, a simple map highlighting farmers markets, city parks and all other things green. Unfortunately, they left a few important things out, like the other boroughs. Seeing as the median rental prices in Brooklyn are have caught up with those across the river, the company […]
To create Pot Shots, their aptly-titled photo zine, Ryan Mungia and Jim Heimann simply drove around with their iPhones. Whenever they saw a cannabis dispensary, they’d snap a cell phone pic from the car, then keep driving. The photos are sparse and strictly documentarian, showing the dispensaries as they’d appear on any normal day. To hear Mungia tell it, […]
The shock of the new is a difficult thing to renew. This is an era in which continued exploration of outer space is expressly whelming, intellectual incuriosity wins friends and influences people, and thousands of musical instruments lay broken in city schools while hotly heralded iPads are promised and then somehow mislaid. There comes a […]
Silk Road, the “deep web” service that allowed its users to anonymously buy and sell things like illegal drugs and weapons, was shuttered this week, leaving countless users without their usual connect. A redditor posting from what looks like a throwaway account took to the site yesterday to issue a “PSA” about the relative purity […]
From a flattened, remixed kid-face shuffling on a video billboard in Detroit, to the epic mutant on the exquisite corpse Tumblr project Cloaque, Rollin Leonard has been exhibiting photography-based work since 2004. It’s body horror… if body horror was very nice to look at. His first solo show of polished plexiglass’ed sculptures, looped moving images and digital collages “Trunks, Stems and […]
