Year: 2013
Benjamin Muzzin‘s work evokes the third dimension by rigging flatscreen television screens to a machine capable of spinning them at very high speeds. This creates, beautiful fleeting structures of light. Watch the sculpture change its entire fluid digital shape with only small variations on the thickness of the lines presented on the spinning 2D screen. With this project […]
How many twerkers does it take to break a world record? 250, according to the Guinness World Record judge, but New Orleans musician and the Queen of Bounce Big Freedia got 358 people to twerk simultaneously in Herald Square. We were to capture the magical moment. “It would open a lot of doors and set history for […]
Earlier this year, the Shortest Video Art Ever Sold! project at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair in New York made a few headlines with the world’s first Vine sale (Shout out Angela Washko!) Ok, so there was a hacking of Vine involved, but the exciting part in the long-run is the ongoing conversation of a micro-collecting community and the work that artists […]
Cody Wilson, the guy behind Defense Distributed and the controversial face of 3D-printed guns, is now turning to another bastion of techno-libertarianism: Bitcoin. He’s partnering with Bitcoin veteran Amir Taaki to create Dark Wallet, a browser plugin that hopes to present a user-friendly way to store and exchange the virtual currency. Of course, this being […]
According to a new study in the Journal of Neuroscience, when a selection of human test subjects were exposed to a series of disturbing images such as car crashes and war, the smells of seemingly benign objects were subsequently interpreted as “malodorous.” We encounter anxiety and as a result we experience the world more negatively. The environment […]
That sleek faux-track bike above is the “Svart,” by the Swedish company BikeID, exclusively sold at MoMA’s design stores. And despite a name that sounds like a parody of an IKEA product, or Swedish for “fart,” (it really means “black”), the thing looks pretty nice. They’ve gone with the always-badass flat black color scheme, drop […]
Earlier this morning, Oneohtrix Point Never released a new music video directed by Jon Rafman, a contemporary artist currently exhibiting at Zach Feuer gallery. It was pulled from YouTube within minutes for what we can only assume was the brief inclusion of creepy anime porn. Unfortunately the new video for @0pn has been removed by YouTube. […]
Salinger (2013) Solidish but 2 long doc @ that 1 guy who wrote that 1 book u read in high school & were like woah this book!!! Did u know JD was up in piles of burnt bodies at the Holocaust camps? Dude’s 1st of like 300 straight days of combat was at Utah fucking […]
I always hated the way Tom O’Bedlam read Charles Bukowski poetry. It’s so nauseatingly full of pomp and ACTING. And now, some agency in Barcelona has made it even worse by putting a Tom O’Bedlam reading of “So You Want to Be a Writer?” as a backdrop to Dewar’s Whiskey. OH IT IS SO DRAMATIC. And epic. […]
There’s a spectre hanging over hallucinogens, the spectre of 25I-NBOMe. It’s a substituted phenethylamine hallucinogenic and entactogenic stimulant. Chemically, it’s the N-benzyl derivative of the hallucinogen 2C-I. The addition of the 2-methyoxybenzyl made it an exceptionally potent 5-HT(2A) receptor agonist. They’re sold as “N-Bombs”, “2C-I-NBOMe”, “Smiles” or “25I”. I’m sure new and exciting street names […]
