Month: March 2014
A 13-year-old girl was walking around Jackson Heights recently when George Macias, a 24-year-old, asked to borrow her phone. When the girl refused, Macias grabbed it out of her hand and fled into a nearby car, where his girlfriend, Marlen Telalyan, was waiting. The pair attempted to speed off, but the girl dove into the driver’s side […]
Space Replay, a project by British design students Francessco Tacchini, Julinka Ebhardt and Will Yates-Johnson, is listening to your every word. Taking the form of a menacing black sphere, it floats around aimlessly, recording everything it hears. Later, it plays those sounds back, echoing the human activity it just witnessed. As otherworldly as Space Replay feels, it’s mechanics […]
Today’s New York Times features a full-page ad from an organization affiliated with the Occupy Gezi protests commemorating the life of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy who was killed by a police teargas canister during a demonstration. The group, called Gezi Democracy Movement, funded the ad on Indiegogo. “Fifteen-year-old Berkin Elvan died after 269 days in a […]
After the Metro-North derailment that killed four people in December, the Federal Railroad Administration conducted a study on the safety of the MTA-operated commuter line. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they found that a “deficient safety culture” prevails on the rail system. According to the New York Times, the federal administration found that workers are pressured to “rush when responding to […]
Marina, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Amidst the many memorial pieces to graffiti artist NEKST (RIP), is this latest tribute by RETNA on the Lower East Side. (Photo: @Perry Levy) […]
Last year, the Boulder-based dispensary Helping Hands Herbals named a strain of weed in honor of CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, after the high profile physician reversed his position on medical weed and outlined its benefits in a widely received documentary. The brand was called the “Gupta Kush” and although the news network […]
“The old sent us to die and we hated them.” The new documentary Matt Wolf examines a most transient of identities. Teenage is comprised of archival footage of adolescent groups through the decades — flappers, punks, etc. — and anonymous narrations of once-teenagers. “We didn’t always exist.” How did the youth (aged roughly 16-24) became labeled and recognized […]
There were some interesting tidbits to be gleaned from Tim Berners-Lee’s Reddit Ask Me Anything yesterday — he almost called the World Wide Web “The Mesh,” for instance — but the format makes it, like all AMAs somewhat difficult to parse. The subject’s responses are given little privilege over the ordinary commenter’s, and infinitely nested […]
New Orleans-born, New York-based artist Rashaad Newsome‘s practice is varied, ranging from video, sound and installation to a shade-inspired performance series that gets more polished every year. This is the latest incarnation of his vogue series. FIVE (The Drawing Center), as profiled by ARTnews, features several dancers whose dyed hair, nails, eyebrows and color contact lenses represent the […]
