Month: February 2014
If two Danish dudes carefully playing the melody to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” on empty beer bottles as they look into each other’s eyes isn’t the epitome of goofy white people-ness, I don’t know what is. Still, by the time The Bottle Boys‘ hip-hop bottle medley gets to “Hard Knock Life,” […]
The New York Times created these beautiful, fantastical renderings of what a New York City Winter Olympics, and, well, it looks a lot better than Super Bowl Boulevard. Pictured above is an imaginary downhill course in Central Park that begins at 59th Street at twice the height of the Empire State Building, then slopes downward as it […]
Yesterday, we told you about Mamrou Samuragochi, the acclaimed Japanese composer who admitted he wasn’t actually writing his own music. It’s long been public knowledge that Samuragochi is deaf — it’s part of what gets him countless otherwise unearned comparisons to Beethoven — but now it appears that may not be true either. Takashi Niigaki, the […]
The porn-centric big data project Sexualitics created Porngram, a nifty tool that lets you chart the frequency of terms that show up in pornos uploaded to xHamster between 2007 and 2013. Just enter two terms — “MILF,” and “teen,” for instance — and you’re given a simple line graph showing how their popularity shifted over […]
The sheer amount of snow and sleet in recent weeks has left parts of NYC looking like the cratered surface of some distant planet. If you’d rather be looking at foreboding, interminably chilly tundras from afar, though, here’s a new panorama of images from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, stitched together by the photographer Andrew Bodrov. According […]
In a bid for “hipster”-baiting buzz that makes your average New York Times trend piece look tame by comparison, the New York Daily News is reporting that residents of three totally grimy, starving-artist neighborhoods — Bushwick (average one-bedroom rental as of December 2013: $1,990), Greenpoint ($2,859), and Williamsburg ($3,443) — actually wear clean clothes! Some of them even have […]
Well, this is handy, isn’t it? Butterfruit Labs created this Manhattan subway map with the stop names subbed out for the area’s best coffee shop. 14th Street on the A/C/E becomes Blue Bottle, Spring Street on the 6 becomes Gimme! Coffee, et cetera. Without the names of stops to orient you it takes a bit […]
Between 2010 and 2012, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign collected data on the deadliest streets for pedestrians across the five boroughs. Broadway topped the list in Manhattan, with nine pedestrian deaths in three years, and Second Avenue was close behind, with seven. In Queens, Woodhaven Boulevard was by far the worst, with eight deaths. Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue was […]
Minsi & Georgett, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Amnesty International held a press conference for Pussy Riot, Flaming Lips, and The Fray ahead of this evening’s concert at Barclays Center. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
