Year: 2013
This year’s Figment art festival on Governor’s Island will feature the Selfie Portrait Project, along with a bunch of other neat interactive pieces. Sort of like an IRL version of that Facebook portrait swap mixed with those Dove crime artist sketches, the self-portrait project will ask participants to take an actual selfie, write a description of […]
Pagan sacrifice! Violent flailing! SEX! When Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring ballet premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris 100 years ago today, there were fist fights in the audience. Indignant critics limped on home, cradling their jolted nervous systems. There is so much going on in this piece. Now, you can see it in Stephen Malinowski‘s beautiful visualization […]
I suppose it was always going to come to this. Deutsche Bahn, the company that runs Germany’s railways, plans to use drones equipped with super-sensitive infrared cameras in an attempt to catch graffiti writers in the act of painting trains. According to the BBC, the drones, which Deutsche Bahn hopes to test soon, will be virtually […]
A momentous occasion occurred in Brighton, UK very recently — momentous if that 1978 top hit by the siren Kate Bush that she wrote when she was eighteen about an Emily Brontë book still speaks to you. More than 300 Kate Bush lookalikes in drapey red garments re-enacted the “Wuthering Heights” video routine in Stanmer Park for “Shambush 2013.” Your […]
If your office looks anything like our office, it’s littered with coffee cups in various states of being covered by kinda-nasty, kinda beautiful drips, sitting on top of desks patterned with the rings those mugs leave behind. As I write this, I’m looking at a 16oz paper cup bisected by a single, lonely brown column […]
Horseshoe crabs–spiky, prehistoric-looking things like the specimens pictured above–it turns out, are more valuable than you might think. This week, four men illegally took at least 200 of the creatures from an island in Jamaica Bay, ostensibly to sell them as fishing bait (the crabs fetch about $5 a piece). Fortunately for the little critters, […]
Billy, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This falling water in the indoor Rain Room installation parts when a moving human is detected. It’s open as part of the MoMA PS1 EXPO 1: New York until July 28. (Photo: Katie Sokoler/Flickr) […]
Just when you think everything that could be 3D-printed has been 3D-printed and every “Unknown Pleasures”-related artwork has been arted, here’s a 3D-printed “Unknown Pleasures”-related art work. It’s perfect. Michael Zoellner intricately adjusted the file specifications to get the model just right: “I even tried to visualize PSR B1919+21’s waveforms, but in the end I spent an evening tracing the waves by […]
At last, something delicate and feminine for the refined masturbator. This lovely jewelry collection also doubles (quadruples?) as a set of sex toys. Fed up with the phallic-shaped dildo’s dominion over the sex toy industry, a team of female Italian designers created Ménage à Quatre to offer independent women a hands-on approach to self stimulation. […]
