Month: June 2014
Camera, a new film by James Leong, looks like a stylized yet plausible view of the near future. It’s 2030 in Hong Kong, and Ming has an eye implant that allows him to record everything he sees. Twitch premiered the trailer today. Ming is a surveillance expert with an obsession: he wants to film everything that […]
According to a new report from the Marijuana Arrest Research Project (PDF), in the first four months of 2014, the NYPD made 80 low level weed possession arrests a day. Despite efforts to change this and Mayor de Blasio’s calling the arrest policy “unjust and wrong,” statistics have stayed the same as in 2013. What’s more […]
One of the great projects to come out of NYU’s ITP program, Tunnel Vision is a free app that sources publicly available data and superimposes it on any New York subway map when you move your smartphone over it. You can target very specific part of NYC just by moving your phone over in that direction. It’s […]
Aby, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
FAUST, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANMALNewYork) […]
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s first film The Tribe is set in a Ukrainian boarding school for deaf-mute students. It’s narrative deals with drug trafficking, sex and violence, which builds as the soundscape intensifies. The film’s characters communicate only in sound language and there are no subtitles and no voice-over provided, “Because for love and hate you don’t need translation.” Watch the trailer […]
In the current timeline, if the characters of the classic 90s drama Twin Peaks existed today, Leland Palmer would have been dead for 25 years. *SPOILER* In the show, Leland commits suicide while under the influence of a demon named Bob who has possessed him for most of his life, leading him to sexually assault and murder […]
When the mysterious billboard with the text “The future of the internet belongs to the highest bidder” appeared in San Francisco, it seemed satirical, but not unbelievable. The accompanying website Jointhefastlane.com advertised premium access to the internet — like the “35x faster” downloading speed on websites like “Videotube” and “Movieflix” — for a hefty fee. Today, BitTorrent […]
Ayn Rand liked cats. She also wrote repetitive, long-winded books and developed Objectivism, the philosophical system for people who pleasure themselves over thoughts of laissez-faire capitalism and believe that self-interest is the highest moral purpose and that’s that, the objective truth, fuck you. But she also really liked cats, so much that she engaged in correspondence […]
Many major cities lack adequate bike lanes, with drivers who are hostile to cyclists. Team Industrial Mimicry at the Biomimicry Student Design Challenge created glowing, moveable “whiskers” that make your bike appear much bigger than it really is, forcing drivers to back the fuck off. The whiskers, known as the VibraSee, can also move to signal […]
