Month: January 2014
Dungeons & Dragons: no longer the sole province of chubby basement-dwellers. On Saturday, a group of adventurous paladins, wizards, and half-elf rangers gathered in a Crown Heights arts space to play the game while meticulously executing difficult poses like “Opening Door,” “Sword One,” and “Dice Rolling.” This was D&D Yoga, an event borne out of […]
Artist Akihiko Taniguchi created this software-centric music video for Holly Herndon “Chorus” using photographs of his friends’ “personal environment outside of the screen” — their desktops, the towering stacks of crumpled paper, packages, wires, headphones, the random mess accumulating around the computer. He then rendered 3D models of the spaces, the flaws in the software […]
New York is expensive, New Jersey is bad, Maine is white, Louisiana is racist. Pennsylvania, for some reason, is haunted. These are the stereotypes put forth by Google’s autocomplete feature when you enter “Why is [xyz state] so…” The map below was created by @Amazing_Maps. Seriously, though: why is Nebraska so boring? […]
Some games go to painstaking lengths to make their environments believable: fake products get integrated marketing campaigns, side characters wear realistically put-together outfits, original art hangs on the walls of houses. The Video Game Art Archive Tumblr focuses on the latter, compiling the stuff that’s hanging on walls in classic games like Castlevania, Legend of Zelda: […]
Sampling has been an integral part of Western music for decades, from the French musique concrète composers of the 1940s, to the introduction of commercially available instruments like the Mellotron and the MPC, to today, with Beyoncé using Star Search intros and snippets of TED Talks in her songs and Jay Z and Kanye lifting from Blades of Glory . In […]
Fresh off of news that the opening 7 Train extension will be pushed back several months comes another MTA delay: the East Side Access plan, which would bring LIRR service across town to Grand Central Station, could remain unopened until 2023. Originally, the project was slated for completion by the end of last year. In […]
Hamlet, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Behold the Norwegian Getaway before it’s rebranded as the Bud Light Hotel. Hopefully it won’t suffer the same fate as its Royal Caribbean counterpart or worse, the “poop cruise.” (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Photographer Alex Van Gelder shot these portraits in a slaughterhouse in Benin, West Africa. African butchers don’t use electric saws as Europeans do but cut up the meat by hand which produces a variety of styles. Shot at the open air market, some of the meat is still pink, not entirely dead. On view at Hauser & Wirth […]
If there are no trash cans in subway stations, people won’t litter there — that’s the MTA’s strange logic, anyway. The transit authority announced it will expand a pilot program that saw garbage receptacles removed from 10 stations to include 29 stops along the J and M lines. The J will soon be completely can-less, […]
