Year: 2013
Marina, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Ayman Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Under the boardwalk, down by the sea…” in Coney Island. (Photo: Steven Siegel/Flickr) […]
Just in time for Amurrica day, here are some nice little visual odes to our nation’s dialectical disunity. To visualize the vast regional differences in ways we refer to things like carbonated beverages and shoes designed for sports, Joshua Katz from NC State University made this amusing series of colorful infograpic maps. Conclusion: down south, people are […]
You’ve probably heard voice actor Don LaFontaine say “one man” thousands of times. It is, perhaps, one of the most blatantly overused lines in all movie trailers and it’s about time that someone gave it the “supercut” treatment. You heard it here first: All movie trailers are the same always and forever, pretty much. (Image: Yify Torrents) […]
New York City murders for the first half of 2013 totalled just 156, down 25% percent from the first half of 2012. Homicides hit their lowest number since the early 1960’s in 2012. The NYPD claims that this is a result of placing extra police officers in certain high crime “impact zones” and its anti-gang program […]
Morsi, Cairo. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
New York City’s Department of Investigation tasks straphangers with the impossible. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
If today wasn’t in full Franco overload mode already, here’s ~0.67 seconds of James Franco as Hugh Hefner. It’s not very convincing. There’s also another ~1.34 seconds. He is tilting his head. There is a pipe in his mouth. Ah, good. Amanda Seyfried stars as Linda Lovelace, the porn performer of the socio-cinematically important Deep Throat, which […]
The people of Egypt have spoken. Well, their military has. President Mohammad Morsi was told his services are no longer required and was whisked away for his own personal safety. Meanwhile the constitution was suspended and it was declared that an interim government would be installed until elections are held. As crowds packed what appeared to be […]
Phototrails is a new research project that uses simple media visualization techniques for exploring patterns and trends found in photos shared on Instagram. A joint venture between the University of Pittsburgh, The California Institute for Telecommunication and Information, and the Graduate Center at CUNY is “seeking to map our city-specific behavior by looking at the thousands of images that pour in […]
