Month: April 2014
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. The Toronto industrial punk band Odonis Odonis walks a fine line between melodic accessibility and grinding noise (see their excellent Hieronymus Bosch-referencing clip “Order in the Court” for evidence of the latter). Fittingly, their […]
Hours after a fan discovered the location of Banksy’s new magazine cover-evoking “mobile lovers” piece, the Broad Plains Boys Club, a nearby organization, pulled it down with a crowbar. “The new Banksy piece is being held in our club to prevent any vandalism or damage being done,” reads a note where the piece formerly sat. The […]
Here’s a browser-based webcam from artist Andrew Benson of Wolf and Unicorn (gif art series about love and death) and INTOTHEZONE (a digital and psychedelic Tarkovsky adaptation). Prosthetic Knowledge explains: It’s “a WebGL realtime visual distorter with a smooth yet digital grainy effect.” Try Flow Cam right here right now. “Technically speaking, it isn’t datamoshing,” Prosthetic Knowledge’s Rich Oglesby schools us. “Datamoshing is […]
Rjyan Kidwell’s work as Cex has long been fueled by provocation. Consider a performance the electronic musician, Tigerbeat6 cofounder, and turn-of-the-millennium internet hero gave in 2007, opening for Dan Deacon and Girl Talk. After he was lifted on stage in a wheelchair, Cex told the crowd he was a contest-winner hoping to raise awareness for […]
The Illusion of Life is an experimental biotech art project by Minsu Kim. It looks like a synthetic breathing machine. It has a central round air chamber, silicon air valves, and a cup that funnels air into your ear, just so. There are also control units that modulate the qualities of its “breath” and “vocalizations.” Neural Magazine […]
Tom Scharpling directed the music video for Real Estate’s “Crimes,” which, if you’re at all familiar with his work, should be enough incentive to start watching now. If not, consider that the plot centers around a group of zombie skateboarders who start at 5050 Skatepark, then roam around the city on the hunt for “blood and erotic […]
True Detective may be out of our lives for now, but WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. Thanks for keeping it going, internet. The latest spin-off Tumblr to join the ranks of such purveyors of inside jokes as True Detective Conversations, True Detective Valentines and True and Confused is Time Is a Flat Circus. It’s Rust Cohle quotes, in all their existentially […]
In True Blood, a softcore porn series about a southern restaurant, vampires are allowed to roam the earth freely because Japanese scientists discovered a way to synthesize blood. The vampires have always been around, you see, but now that they don’t depend on mauling and feeding on humans for sustenance, they can come out of the dark […]
Jared Kushner — son-in-law of Donald Trump, destroyer of newspapers, buyer of buildings — now has his sights set on a humbler target: the quaint garden behind 170-174 East Second Street, a walkup his company Westminster Management recently purchased in the East Village. Residents of the building, who built and maintain the garden themselves, are gutted. […]
Thoreau, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
