Month: January 2014
So you’ve outfitted your body with all the necessary bioelectronics: pacemakers, cochlear implants, RFID art chips, and the like. Now: how to power it all? Soon, you might consider a new device that converts the movements of your organs into usable electricity, so that those devices can run without a recharge for the rest of […]
Ilya Varlamov, an independent photojournalist we’ve been following for years, finally arrived in Kiev last night. He posted photos on his LiveJournal, along with a no-frills account of what it is actually like inside. Here are some highlights, translated. For the last four days, Kiev is a war zone, constantly erupting in combat and flames. As […]
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British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper took these photos at the slaughterhouse of Danish Crown, the world’s largest pork exporter. They’re are brutal. Here’s what he says about the photos, on Dezeen. The reality is that the society we live in craves meat, on a massive scale. Where there is a demand there will be a supply, and […]
Photographer Keith Goldstein says his series of photos of people looking up at the construction of 1 World Trade Center are about seeing how people “reacted to what they were seeing –a place where people perished and a new place that was being rebuilt out of the ruins.” Goldstein works in the financial district, and […]
Mitik, the orphaned baby walrus who made the trip from Alaska to NYC in 2012, only to have its New York Aquarium home battered by the waters of Hurricane Sandy, will be leaving the city for a spell. As repairs to the Aquarium are completed, he’ll be shipped to a new home in San Antonio, […]
The NYPD’s latest big internal investigation was not sparked by some unwarranted stop-and-frisk, or the bloodying of an 84-year-old man, but a couple of empty beer cans found in a stationhouse. Alcohol is banned on police property under a rule instituted by former commissioner, so when a captain found four empty Budweisers in the dormitory […]
Damian, Empire State Building. (Photo: @Viketaur) […]
Graffiti writer TRAP adds some nice visuals to an otherwise drab subway commute for riders of the J/M/Z trains. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork)>/em> […]
Video artist and RISD professor Dennis Hlynsky films birds flying, then composites frames together so that we see their flight paths outlined — kind of like a mouse pointer with trails turned all the way up. The results are quietly gorgeous. According to Hlynsky, the video above, of starlings congregating os some power lines, “gets good […]
