Month: April 2014
What do nearly all cereal box mascots have in common? Besides having catchy, alliterative names like Tony the Tiger, Count Chocula, and Cap’n Crunch, and shilling for high-sugar, low-nutritional value breakfast foods, they’re nearly always looking down. Think about it: there’s Tony, peering at you from on high; the Cap’n, eyes aimed at his spoon […]
Earlier this week, Fabergé hatched its Big Egg Hunt. Over 200 artists participated, covering the surfaces of oversized eggs with their signature touches. The eggs were placed around NYC. The ones we like aren’t particularly easy to locate. Here are some of our favorite finds — COST, COPE2, D*face, FAUST, SEEN, ENX and more. See them in […]
If you’ve been yearning for a more precise hand to give you your next tattoo, a group of French students may have the answer: have a robot do it for you. Pierre Emm, Piotr Wedelka, and Johan da Silveira hacked a Makerbot 3D printer as part of an electronics workshop at Paris’s ENSCI-Les Ateliers design school, […]
Tens of thousands of people move to NYC ever year. Between July 2012 and July 2013, in fact, there were 61,000 new New Yorkers. Where are all those people coming from? According to data from Spokeo, an online database of phone numbers, they’re mostly from Connecticut and Washington, D.C. The company used area codes to […]
Hamilton, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Safety violations…call 311” graffiti in Harlem. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The results of a new Pew Research poll paint a rosy picture for the future of pot in America. According to the study, 54 percent of Americans believe the plant should be legalized, and 69 percent believe it is less dangerous than alcohol. Furthermore, 75 percent of Americans — including those who are against legalization — […]
Get ready to be ASCII-ized: a web app by Eric Fredricksen takes input from your webcam and turns whatever it sees into a stream of text characters in real-time. Before your eyes, you’re transformed into a work ASCII video art, made of asterisks, tildes, colons, and the like. Most impressively, ASCII cam doesn’t just render […]
In 2013, the sleepy Colorado town of Deer Trail made a splash when one of its residents proposed issuing drone-hunting licenses, which would legalize opening fire on unmanned aircraft. Unsurprisingly, that’s not going to happen: according to the Denver Post, 73 percent of the 181 residents who voted on the ordinance were against it. Of course, the legislation […]
These digital renderings are from an actual pamphlet by a developer who has his sights set on some hot Morgan L-stop adjacent “retail space.” Sent to us by a tipster from Oh, Great, it bluntly and unabashedly features the words “Join the gentrification!” The revolutionary call is complimented with a rendering of the building being split into several […]
