Month: April 2014
The New York Public Library just released an embarrassment of riches for cartography nerds everywhere: the institution’s collection of 20,000 vintage maps are now free to download and use in ridiculously high resolution. There’s plenty of vintage NYC goodness to peruse, and maps from other cities as well. The full-res section of this circa-1855 map […]
Bruce LaBruce’s new film Gerontophilia is about an 18-year-old with a fetish for the elderly who falls in love with an 81-year-old nursery patient and breaks him out. It’s his biggest budget to date ($2 million). See the trailer above, with soundtracking by Oneohtrix Point Never. Gerontophilia is still LaBruce transgressive (inspired by his friend Marcus Ewert, the teenage lover of Allen […]
Federico Babina’s “Archiportraits” series imagines what iconic architects might look like if they had a hand in desiginging their own physical features. Le Corbusier becomes abstractly disjointed; Antoni Gaudi’s beard evokes the spires of the Sagrada Familia; Frank Gehry is all curved surfaces and unaligned windows. “A portrait is like the mirror of the soul,” Babina […]
Here are some Polish prisoner tattoos. They were cut with razor blades, glass shards and sharpened paperclips. Then inked with burned rubber, charcoal and other shit. Then, after the convicts’ deaths, they were “extracted” from the corpses, stuck into jars of formaldehyde and stacked at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Then, photographed by Polish artist Katarzyna Mirczak. Then, loftily hypothesized […]
The only ex-cop with a bigger mouth than former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, it seems, is his brother. After current top cop Bill Bratton remarked that the department under Kelly had “awful morale” after excessive use of stop-and-frisk, Donald Kelly, 79, called the “Curtis & Kuby” show on WABC to air his grievances. “I’m mad […]
The high-dollar perfumery Bond No. 9 just released “Hudson Yards,” a scent meant to evoke the heavy-duty equipment, sweaty workers, and notes of steel “luminous melange of dewy petals piled upon petals” the under-construction neighborhood is known for. Only $200 a bottle! As one of the totally legit fashion personalities says in the video below, […]
Dwayne, Upper West Side. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s the Sweet Toof by the Brooklyn Navy Yard that I missed last time. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Stuart Atteberry remixed a selection of Mondrian and Rothko paintings using Gimp and GlitchSort, reorganizing the pixels by brightness and then animating the sorting, so they “cascade dreamily.” Artist Kim Asendorf coined the term “pixel sorting” for this type of algorithmic image manipulation process in 2010. Atteberry explains the very basic idea behind his project: “Many old artists helped to push humanity along the […]
The colorful map above charts every street in New York City by its “street suffix”: if it’s a street, it’s blue; if it’s an avenue, it’s red; if it’s a place, it’s green; if it’s a road, it’s teal, and so on. It reveals a few obvious and not-so-obvious truths about the city’s patchwork of pavement. Of […]
