Year: 2013
That nagging sense of a New York divided, between haves and have-nots, observed by everyone from Occupy Wall Street to the Democratic nominee for mayor? It isn’t imaginary. A survey released today reveals that NYC has the U.S.’s most striking income inequality. In Manhattan, the average income for the lowest 20% was $9,635, and that of […]
100 years ago, mysterious humanoid figures called Titans, ranging from 16 to 50 feet tall, appeared on Earth and began to decimate humanity. These giants ate any people in their wake, feasting their way across the landscape until the remainder of humankind barricaded itself behind a series of cramped concentric walls that keep the Titans […]
Silkscreening an image can be daunting. Luckily, Bruce High Quality Foundation University demystified the process in their most recent “How To” video for MOCAtv’s YouTube channel. You too can learn to silkscreen a t-shirt… in your bathroom. While it may not be as precise as the high-end printshops, this is hardly a rocket science. It requires little more than […]
Last evening at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, an orchestra and a chorus performed Yves Klein’s Monotone-Silence Symphony (1947-1949) — a D major chord sustained for twenty minutes with no distinguishable breaks in sound, immediately followed by twenty minutes of silence. The symphony itself was performed in conjunction with the exhibition “Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week we’re looking at “Bound 2” from Yeezus. It was recently released as that polarizing album’s second single (here’s ‘Ye and Charlie Wilson performing it on Jools Holland earlier this […]
Last month, the decade-old Joe Strummer tribute that was painted on the side of an East Village bar was completely buffed by workers doing renovations according to EV Grieve. It was originally painted outside of Niagara on the corner of East 7th Street and Avenue A by legendary graffiti artists REVOLT and ZEPHYR in 2003, […]
The Straphangers Campaign has completed the latest installment of its annual study of subway announcements, and the R train is still the worst. Forty-four percent of messages on that line were either not understandable or not accurate–just about the same rate the line was operating at last year. The L and the Q, on the […]
Flagger is a Chrome extension that adds potential NSA keywords to every URL you visit, just to give a little trolly “fuck you” to the any feds that may be watching. As I write this, for example, the URL for ANIMAL’s back end has “?lulz=regime+warfare+MSP” tacked to the end of it. I just refreshed, and […]
Poop power is finally upon us, as researchers from Stanford University have developed a battery that gathers electricity from the bacteria that grows on feces. It’s yet enough to power the world–the device can generate just 30 percent of the potential energy found in shit–but according to its developers, it could at least help power […]
A new study by the Vera Institute of Justice confirms what may seem like an obvious truth: people who have been stopped and frisked and live in areas with a high police presence generally distrust the NYPD. According to the Daily News, the study found that “for every additional time someone was stopped, that person was 8% […]
