Month: February 2014
The MTA recently unleashed their modern, interactive On the Go! kiosks at Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal, as well as Bowling Green, Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center and Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Ave subway stops. The touchscreen kiosks look like 47-inch iPads and provide directions and subway schedules. I stopped by the newly installed kiosks at Grand Central and people seem to be somewhat […]
Here’s Kanye West at the confusingly celebrity-studded world premiere of Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament, the five-and-a-half hour epic opera-art-film loosely based on a book by Norman Mailer. So, if Kanye West’s music video has any of the following elements, we officially called it: – hypersexual zombies – Ancient Egyptian zombies – a giant toilet throne – […]
Ron Paul is putting his money where his civil-liberties-minded mouth is. The Libertarian stalwart started a petition to give Edward Snowden clemency for leaking classified information about the NSA’s massive surveillance operation. Snowden’s year of asylum in Russia ends this July, and Paul says he hopes his petition will show the U.S. government that “Mr. Snowden […]
The super-producer Hudson Mohawke dropped his seventh-annual Valentine’s Day mix on the world today, and it is every bit as smooth and sexxxy as you’d hoped. At just five minutes in I’ve already heard both Luther Vandross and Five Star, and I am just fine with that. Listen below. […]
Inspired by these illustrations, the game developer Cocoalasca created Sesame Street Fighter, a delightful HTML5 game that mashes up, yes, Sesame Street and Street Fighter. You play as one of several character amalgamations, including Bert/Ryu, Ernie/Ken, and my personal favorite, Oscar/Blanca, beating up your opponent by being the first to correctly type a series of difficult words. Learning and violence! Fittingly, the […]
Is that it will give many more people access to everyone’s favorite local news channel, NY1. According to Capital New York, the terms of Comcast’s 2011 buyout of NBCUniversal dictate that it must make any cable channels it owns available to the other providers at a fair rate. Because Time Warner owns NY1, and Comcast will own […]
Casey Neistat’s latest video finds him behind a Jeep, holding a tow rope, snowboarding the streets of Manhattan. It looks like a lot of fun, but don’t be fooled by his apparent skills. Writes Casey on YouTube: “I’m an OK snowboarder but I edited this movie to make me look much much better than I […]
Aleksandr, Upper West Side. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A TWIST that’s still running in Brooklyn!!! (Photo: @carnagenyc) […]
As part of an initiative to curb illegal graffiti in Dorchester — a city in South West England — the local council enacted a program that commissions public murals from area artists such as Peter Sheridan. He was given permission to paint a wall underneath a railway bridge. And so he did. Armed with aerosol, […]
