Year: 2013
Giving signed dollar bills to newly-opened businesses has been a New York tradition for time immemorial. Of course, The Newsstand pop-up art/zine/record store — underground at the Lorimer/Metropolitan L/G subway stop — did this a little differently. Their good luck bills are signed by graffiti writers (and artsy personalities) such as CHINO, KUMA, NECKFACE, and […]
Captain Steve Rauchut was returning from a fishing trip in the East Rockaway Inlet Wednesday when he snapped the above photo of Humpback Whales feeding just off of Far Rockaway, Queens. He saw three at a time, and estimates there were three to five whales total. “It was 30 feet or less that they were […]
Earlier last week, Jeff Cantrell of Morehead, Kentucky started a petition to the National Football League requesting that the satirical heavy-metal band GWAR play the upcoming Super Bowl Halftime Show. The petition quickly took off and currently has the support of over 40,000 people who would really like the stage-adjacent Super Bowl spectators to be covered in […]
Nowadays, there are dozens of vaporizer choices. From fancy tabletop versions to state-of-the-art portable models, smokers have a bevy of options. But back in the day, there were “hot knives.” It’s a simple-but-efficient DIY method for smoking hash, but with the rising popularity of dabs, works well for them too. Here’s a step by step […]
The Verge’s entire video profile of the maker space i3 Detroit is worth watching, but if you’re in the mood for some spectacle, fast forward to about 6 minutes. That’s when i3 president Matt Oehrlein shows off his mind-controlled flamethrower, which, yes, throws flames and requires only brain waves as input. Watch it in action above. […]
The acclaimed London “David Bowie is” retrospective all Bowie everything exhibit is touring and going to Canada first. “Spanning five decades and featuring more than 300 objects from Bowie’s personal archive, this totally immersive multimedia show celebrates the groundbreaking artist’s collaborations in the fields of fashion, sound, theatre, art and film” and it’s… a lot of stuff […]
Art’s not dead, but it has left Gagosian. We tried but we can’t keep ignoring the “performance art” piece that Madonna bestowed on the upper crust of celebrity this week. The Gagosian Gallery — misreported as the MoMA — hosted the racial/social/artistic fiasco for the premiere of Madonna’s film project that I refuse to hashtag. Madonna, singing […]
Val, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Photographic evidence that the NYPD Mounted Unit’s job detail goes beyond just posing with tourists. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Kenyan photographer and activist Boniface Mwangi arrived in New York this week to speak on a panel at the United Nations. While he was in town, we asked him about last week’s Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi and some of the photos he took while there. “You see these things on TV, and other countries–you […]
