Year: 2013
Lars von Trier’s hotly anticipated two-part epic Nymphomaniac did not make it to Cannes because they weren’t ready. They — parts of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, and various fucking pornstars — were still being rendered together into a seamless, hardcore celebrity experience. Producer Louise Vesth explains: We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had […]
If you’ve been waiting for interesting art within the virtual space since Eva and Franco Mattes re-performances in Second Life, here’s something. Cloud Party is a new, free virtual platform that looks and feels familiar, but remains completely in your browser, without any pesky installation processes. Since the people at Cloud Party have been so kind as to give […]
These microscopic crystal flowers were grown by Harvard researcher Wim L. Noorduin by dissolving barium chloride and sodium silicate into water. When the carbon dioxide diffuses the solution, intricate patterns form in the barium crystal. The resulting nanoscale blossoms seem to have been picked right out of a fairy’s garden. Varying levels of acidity drastically impact […]
Hidden within the sterile, long-abandoned second floor rooms of the Farley Post Office in Midtown, there is a vast and impressive collection of art. Works by Picasso, Warhol, Basquiat, Condo, Manzoni and others — some never before exhibited in public — contrast stunningly against the decrepit walls and outdated decor of the labyrinthine space. Decades ago, there […]
This is one of those projects whose premise basically speaks for itself. A group of digital artists developed a program that runs Google’s satellite images of Earth through facial recognition software, finding the faces that are hidden on the planet’s landscape. Watch the brilliant software at work below, and see some of its findings in […]
Scorpions, spiders, lobsters, millipedes, and flies — they all evolved from a common ancestor, the “scissor-armed” Cambrian-era arthropod kooteninchela deppi, whose recently discovered 505-million-year-old fossil may vastly change our understanding of how all modern lifeforms emerged. But how does one aptly name an extinct, sea-dwelling, pincer-clawed megaceiran mofo? Same as how boy-crazy tweens have named […]
The promise of Defense Distributed’s Liberator 3D-printed handgun–that it would “free” firearms from the firearms industry, putting a gun in the hands of anybody who wants one–is really a dot on the horizon. Cody Wilson and co. got one to fire, yes, but they did it with an $8,000 printer that looks like a vending […]
This week, Printed Internet goes inside the mind of a Torrent junkie. Previously on Printed Internet. […]
New York-based, internationally-sprawling Aboveground Animation collective is showing new work at MOCA at the end of the month, presented by MOCAtv. Casey Jane Ellison’s crew consistently produces solid, varied work that pushes media boundaries and fucks your brain into a different dimension. The latest commissioned works from Kathleen Daniel, Barry Doupe, Erin Dunn, Lauren Gregory, Jacolby Satterwhite and […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. For their edition of “Listen In,” the Canadian electronic outfit Gold & Youth compiled a playlist that mixes classic new wave with ambient techno, shoegaze, and jangly guitar pop. Befitting the band’s name, […]
