Year: 2013
After a successful crowd funding campaign, Open Music Labs‘s Mixtape Alpha has been re-released. This small pocket-sized 8-bit synth comes complete with four voices, four effects, five-note polyphony, record, playback, and much more. In addition to each of these functions, the compact synthesizer can fit within the small confines of an audio cassette case, making it an […]
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. “Montara,” Bobby Hutcherson, 1975, samples appear at :21 and :53: Bobby Hutcherson’s “Montara” is one of those ’70s jazz cuts that sounds like it was created just so some […]
Acupuncture started as a procedure for horses, according to Dr. Marc Siebert at the Lower East Side Animal Hospital, so there’s no reason not be using it on dogs now. The veterinary center, which opened in August as a satellite of the Heart of Chelsea Animal Hospital, offers things like acupuncture and laser therapy in […]
I think I said some variant of “Wow!” or “Holy shit!” to myself about five times over the course of the above six-minute video. In it, software called 3-Sweep, developed by researchers from Tel Aviv University creates fully modifiable 3D-models of the objects in regular photographs. If that doesn’t sound impressive enough to warrant my […]
A visit to the luxury offers website Gilt City turns up deals for a spa in midtown, tickets to a “culinary conference,” pilates classes, and… a guided tour of the Rockaways’ fancy new post-Sandy lifeguard stands. The tour, part of a monthlong architecture celebration called Archtober, the will take place on October 29, which is, […]
Fernando, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
We’re not sure if this Fashion Week attendee is wearing an anti-gun control shirt as a statement or a fashion statement. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Allegedly, the notorious topless protesting feminist collective Femen was “started” by a man. Come again? When I first interviewed the now-internet-infamous topless protestors of Femen almost two years ago, Inna Shevchenko and Jenya Krayzman made their views on sex work very clear. Because of the regular abuse and exploitation of women in Ukraine, they don’t believe in […]
“Come in, have a seat! Shall I make tea? I’ve got plenty of vodka! Want some cherries? Bread? I could cook you some chicken…” This is invariably how I’m greeted whenever I meet someone Russian. It doesn’t matter if he opens the door naked, if we’re just going to watch TV, or if the camera’s […]
Staten Island may soon be home to the world’s largest ferris wheel, thanks to the City Planning Commission, which announced its approval of the plan to build the wheel today. City Council has to give the OK next; if it does, the wheel will stand 625 feet tall near the northeast corner of the island, […]
