Month: January 2014
Johnnyrandom’s “Bespoken” — a piece of electronic music created entirely out of sounds recorded from a bike — has been available on iTunes since November, but the composer just released a promotional video for it this week. In it, we see spokes bowed like violin strings, sprockets struck with mallets, and air compressed air used as […]
Yes, this is a skull made of cocaine. It’s called Ecce Animal, and it’s a sculpture by the Dutch artist Diddo (who also made this hypothetical “cure for greed“). As far as skulls go, it ranks somewhere below Noah Scalin’s skull made of VHS tapes and above Dan Aykroyd’s skull made of glass filled with vodka. Once, […]
Francisco Negroni’s photographs of the Cordón Caulle erupting in Chile and weather dramatically happening are very dramatic. Wow. Now that’s what we call weather. According to our staff photographer, these very sleekly exaggerated nature imagery was captured with a combination of slow shutter and digital composite and “I could do that in the office right now.” Brb. (Photos: Francisco Negroni) […]
“My story is about something really beast-like, wild and dirty inside these pretty creatures and how it suddenly comes out,” photographer Sasha Mademuaselle tells DAZED. There are hundreds of photos, many channeling that wild something, reminiscent of every big party in every big place, but what ties them together are the chosen details — the […]
The team at Animal Bikes — the similarly-named-but-otherwise-unrelated-to-ANIMALNewYork.com BMX company — went to Japan last year, and is dropping a new video next week. They released this six-minute promo today, featuring some ridiculous footage of the team shredding in Tokyo. Look out for Tyrone Williams, star of our Citi Bike BMX video, at around 1:45. […]
Fog, like snow, is a weather phenomenon that sometimes happens in New York. Today, it happened to a degree that is perhaps unusual for New Yorkers but quite familiar to our friends in the Pacific Northwest. Lots of people took pictures. That’s one of them above. (Photo: Jennifer Gormley/Poynter) […]
Here’s the first trailer for Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls — “gritty,” “harrowing,” “explosive” and one of Canada’s Top Ten films of 2013, according to TIFF. We were previously charmed with teenage dealer Aila’s monologue about her highly-specialized blunt business. The trailer gives a bit more context. Set on an Aboriginal reservation in 1970s Canada, the film is about a 15-year-old girl […]
In a video published this week, TJ Mizell and his crew hop aboard the J train at Delancey Street/Essex Street and ride it across the Williamsburg Bridge to Marcy Avenue. While they’re traveling Mizell — son of the legendary Jam Master Jay — gets behind the decks, slicing and dicing Jay-Z’s “Tom Ford” and “Show […]
Here are some photos of Russian military doing things with their drones, in a completely unposed matter, despite that second slide looking like a Wes Anderson still. Russia’s Ministry of Defense put them up on their website, with a glowing article boasting about their currently-Kolomna-based Center for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 30 years old and 180 military personnel strong. Ah, […]
The plan to rename the corner of Rivington and Ludlow Streets — the site of the Pauls Boutique album cover photo — in the Beastie Boys’ honor was voted down by the local community board. Debated lasted 90 minutes at last night’s CB3 meeting, according to DNAinfo, before the board decided to reject the “Beastie Boys Square” proposal. LeRoy […]
