Month: March 2014
While this amateur Facebook video showed the chaos and confusion on the ground after this morning’s explosion in East Harlem, the above photos, published by the MTA, capture the immediate relief effort. Firefighters spray down the burning buildings from atop cherry pickers, rail workers clear Metro-North tracks of debris, and the smoke billows on. See them in […]
Artist Andrew Benson’s new ongoing GIF Tumblr Wolf + Unicorn tells the story of a codependent and violent relationship between a unicorn and a wolf. Benson’s GIF for the David Bowie tribute projections at his retrospective was similarly psychotic. He’s also lent a texture coordinate manipulation shader to Adam Ferris for his glitch work. His earlier, more complex work includes INTOTHEZONE — a video […]
A Harlem photographer recorded the below video, seemingly shortly after the explosion in East Harlem that killed at least two people and injured 20. Though it’s only about 15 seconds long, it reflects the chaos on the ground this morning, as police usher people to safety, pulling them out of their cars and onto the […]
Sneakerheads looking for that brand new heat might consider these 3D-printed numbers that can be folded up small enough to fit in your pocket or backpack. Here’s what they look like in full-on shoe mode. No relation to these guys, despite the “Filaflex” on the tongue — that’s the name of the 3D-printing filament used […]
The Armory Show came and went with its hundreds of galleries. There was no Playoff Bracket. No one won an MVBooth Award. Sometimes, there is just no unified curatorial arch or higher implications in the motifs of a pile of stuff. Well, there are niche market trends. This year’s focus was on hot-shit galleries from […]
Jason Barnes, a drummer who lost his arm in a working accident two years ago, now plays with a robotic prosthesis that holds two sticks at once. As PopSci explains, one of the sticks listens to the music that’s playing and generates its own accompaniment on the fly. Using electromyography sensors, one stick on the arm picks […]
At around 9 this morning, an explosion at 116th Street and Park Avenue in East Harlem collapsed two buildings and shut down Metro North service, injuring at least 11 people. Several media outlets are reporting that one to two people have died. UPDATE (12:25PM): The NYPD is reporting two deaths and 17 injuries. According to Mayor de […]
Between 100 and 200 video game consoles have existed over the last several decades, depending who you ask. One Wikipedia page lists 143, but doesn’t include handheld systems like Nintendo’s Game Boy and 3DS. Michael Thomasson, a noted collector of vintage games, has 108 different systems, and says his lot would be complete but for […]
A New York Times story on lack of diversity in the city’s most prestigious high schools highlights just how bad things are. Stuyvesant High, the Lower Manhattan institution that counts acclaimed actors, musicians, and Nobel laureates among its alumni, offered seats to 952 incoming students for the coming school year. Seven of them were black, and 21 […]
Robin Sandusky was munching on her kale salad at the Chelsea outpost of Manhattan chain Guy & Gallard when she noticed something unusual lurking among the leafy greens. At first, she thought it was an errant vegetable. Then: “I turned it over, and I could see its eye,” she says. It was, inexplicably, the severed […]
