Month: January 2014
O Fortuna! Sometimes, you find yourself on the E train, at 7:30pm on a Friday, struggling not to vomit. Sometimes, you vomit anyway. ANIMAL friend Tom Grunwald captured this gentleman flailing desperately off the subway railing, clearly trying to hold back his vomit and not taking several opportunities to exit the train car and relieve himself […]
Skryft, by the artist Gijs van Bon, is a robot that slowly, meticulously writes on the ground using sand. In the Dezeen-produced video above, van Bon uses the bot to display the works of the Dutch poet Merel Morre on the streets of Eindhoven. “When you’re writing one [line of] text, another one is going away because […]
A 53-year-old former teacher was outraged when his 67-year-old friend insisted that “the only real literature is prose” in an argument, so he stabbed him to death, RIA reports. A poetry fan, the man fled the murder scene and was tracked down and arrested a few days later. He is being charged with murder. It was quite the […]
Super Bowl Boulevard™ opens to the public today in anticipation of Super Bowl XLVIII™, and though cameras aren’t technically allowed on the Super Bowl Toboggan Run™, we brought a GoPro along to document the experience. The ride was fun, but probably not worth the 45 minute wait to get to the top, especially in the cold […]
Venmo is a very useful service with very strange advertising. It allows you to easily transfer money to your friends, even if you use different banks, right from your phone. It’s advertising allows you to wonder who the hell Lucas is, why he’s plastered all over the Bedford Avenue L stop, and what exactly he’s […]
A new study from Georgia Tech on the intersection of politics and social media confirms what any casual Facebooker already knows to be true: it sucks when your friends post about politics, and it sucks even more when their politics differ from yours. The researchers, led by Catherine Grevet, found that people who believe most of their […]
There’s a snippet of a video called “Ira Glass on Storytelling” that’s become a mantra for a certain type of aspiring creative person. Speaking about what might be referred to as the “taste gap,” the This American Life host advises that anyone who wants to do artistic work hits a wall at a certain point: your […]
A tipster sent in an image on of what appeared to be a piece of Kaws art hanging on his wall, but it was actually a counterfeit he made. So, we asked him if he would share his process. He agreed. Making your own bootleg Kaws is as as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. […]
There have been 116 State of the Union addresses since the 1900s. The Washington Post has a nifty interactive infographic illustrating word usage frequency, in neat little circles. See how the 20 presidents used words. See “communism” get replaced by “terrorism” (108 times in 2001 from Bush Jr) and the stream of “America”/”American” steadily getting […]
“This is my first visit to America. On the drive to jail, I saw the Brooklyn Bridge. I recognize it from the movies.” That’s the world’s most famous arms dealer Viktor Bout, in the above clip of the The Notorious Mr. Bout. But Lord of War? Nicholas Cage? No, Bout — currently serving time somewhere in Illinois — never lived […]
