Year: 2013
What happens when you can’t connect to the internet on-the-go? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Ushahidi, a non-profit tech company based in Africa is hoping to change all that with what they call “a backup generator for the internet.” BRCK is not exactly a new technology, but it’s a great way to use older technology yet much more wisely. […]
Every March, some 40,000 people flock to Sweetwater, Texas to drink, party, BBQ, and cheerfully jostle with snake guts. Founded in 1958 to control Nolan County’s snake population, The World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup has become a raucous snake killin’ extravaganza, with a 3-day lineup that includes mass organized snake hunts, dismembering and skinning workshops, plenty […]
Last time we showed you one of Jake Fried’s maximalist hand-drawn animations, we could only speculate as to the insane amount of effort behind it. Now, we have some hard facts. At 60 seconds long and 25 frames per second, that’s a mind-boggling 1500 frames scanned into Photoshop and pieced together in Final Cut, a […]
How does the modern collector acquire digital works? Our friends at Art F City have an elegant solution — AFC Selects, a drool-worthy, fully-curated collection of work from 11 renowned, international artists, together on a luxury Mobiado USB drive crafted from a single piece of sapphire crystal, with custom printed ribbon and packaging from Bunny Rogers and a certificate of authenticity signed by all […]
Mother Nature might be a bit of a ring pop-sucking club kid, because she made bioluminescent bacteria. Woo. While it occurs naturally in aquatic settings, it’s become prime fodder for genetic engineers, who are constantly trying to reproduce that neon glow-in-the-dark splendor in lab settings. That’s pretty cool. But don’t you want YOUR OWN genetically engineered […]
With weed being decriminalized in numerous states across the country, “man’s best friend” is not being left out of the movement. Veterinarian Doug Kramer has been investigating the beneficial effects of medical weed treatment for pets. On his website, Dr. Kramer has been collecting case studies in support of this type of treatment with predominately positive […]
Fresh off of plastering the faces of New Yorkers and tourists alike all over Times Square, JR took to a location that’s decidedly more in keeping with his best-known work. The French street artist traveled to Rikers Island over the weekend to put his trademark large-scale wheatpasted photo posters on the prison’s walls. We’ve already […]
Happy 195th Birthday, Karl Marx! The artist Ottmar Hörl made you a present — 500 of them. These three-foot-tall Karls-gnome-hybrids in clusters all over Trier in west Germany, where Marx was born. People seem to be amused. It’s definitely going over better than when Hörl had planted an army of gnomes mid-Nazi salute in Nuremberg. See, anything Nazi is illegal in Germany. A […]
Attend South Africa’s OppiKoppi music fest this summer will be greeted by perhaps history’s friendliest UAVs: a fleet of drones that will drop beers by parachute to anyone who orders them. In the video below, the flying booze bots are operated by remote control, but festival organizers eventually hope to make them fully automatic, with […]
Those who are looking forward to the launch of New York’s bike share program finally have a date to start counting down to. Though the Department of Transportation is only officially saying the program will begin sometime this month, a source within the Citi Bike organization told Crain’s it will launch Memorial Day weekend, about two and […]
