Year: 2013
Reddit is huge, almost unfathomably so. To a lurker like myself, it can be difficult to understand the inner workings and connections beyond a few big subreddits, like AdviceAnimals, IAmA, and, uh, NSFW Science. Thanksfully, redditor sharkbait784 created this interactive data visualization, which maps the connections between subs based on the number of times each sub […]
Next time you hit up one of New York’s newsstands, take a moment to look at the prices of the goods spread out before you. Besides the stand’s raisons d’être–newspapers and magazines–as well as MetroCards, phone cards, and cigarettes, you’ll notice that all of the prices top off conspicuously at $5. That’s because of legislation […]
T-Mack, Port Authority. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
As part of their “Big Brush Project” in Williamsburg, outdoor advertising company Colossal Media recreated artwork by Greg Lamarche aka SP ONE. (Photo: Colossal Media/Flickr) […]
As the great scholar Rick James once said, cocaine is a hell of a drug. Alas, it’s also very expensive, is responsible for more annual U.S. emergency room visits than any other drug, and turns users into selfish, paranoid, sexually impotent jerks. Er, so we hear. And yet, according to the National Survey on Drug Use […]
This hot new Facebook “game” might be your last. With Social Roulette, you have 1 in 6 chance of getting your Facebook account deleted. The collaborative “game” by Kyle McDonald (shout out F.A.T. lab!), Jonas Lund (shout out Eyebeam!) and Jonas Jongejan functions like the traditional Russian Roulette would, without the gun. If your “chamber” is loaded, you will lose your precious […]
In Sonic Water — an interactive installation from media artists Sven Meyer and Kim Pörksen — audible frequencies are translated into striking kinetic imagery. Small vats of water act as 3D liquid sculptures. Visitors can create different sound effects by adding fluids into the mix. These user-modulated noises are then transformed into ever-changing visual patterns, recorded by a camera and projected. The video […]
To create Venus of Google, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez first took a photograph. Then, he uploaded that photo, of “a box filled with feathers and LEDs,” into Google’s reverse image search. After this image of a woman in a “Body Wrap” arrived in the results, Plummer-Fernandez used his own algorithm, similar to Google’s, to sculpt a blank digital slate […]
Ever wish you could see the other side in the massive dance of privacy violations, data collection, and all-around snooping that characterizes our life online today? Data Dealer, a new free online game, hopes to let you do just that. You play as an aspiring data mogul, mining people’s personal information through variety of legitimate and illegitimate sources, […]
This… is “dickhead.” Quite literally. In potēntia is a recent, ethically-challenging project from researcher/artist Guy Ben-Ary and academic/artist Dr. Kirsten Hudson. The artists purchased human foreskin cells online and reverse-engineered them back into their embryonic state, then genetically manipulated those stem cells to grow into a neural network, a “brain.” Or, you know, force-chopped off flesh from living human […]
