Month: June 2014
Reid Weissman (@astro_reid) is an astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station with a penchant for documenting his voyage on Twitter. Weissman has recently made history by posting the first Vine ever taken in space — a compressed clip of one full orbit around the earth. In the Vine, the sun never sets, instead, it […]
In today’s Metro, there’s a front page story about “Graffiti-Free NYC,” a program that employs “low-to-moderate income New Yorkers” to traipse around the boroughs and buff graffiti for property owners, free of charge. According to the paper, these “Graffiti Warriors” have cleaned off 170 million square feet of tags, outlines and throw-ups since 1999. For […]
Here’s a series of film posters so minimalist, they’re essentially one or two sheets of slightly, ever-so-deliberately damaged paper (with deliberate shades/textures/fancy names, as listed in the gallery above). Jaws looks like a perfect ocean blue “bit” by the tiniest of sharks, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a crumpled (“wrinkled”) white sheet that gets […]
A recent neuroscience study at the University of Minnesota has shown that rats are capable of feeling regret. This was previously thought to be a uniquely human emotion, and yet, it is also experienced by furry creatures who live in the subway tracks and feed on discarded pizza crusts. Speaking with A. David Redish, Ph.D. and A. David Redish, […]
A strange billboard has popped up in San Francisco. White capital letters on a red background read, “The future of the internet belongs to the highest bidder,” followed by the website jointhefastlane.com. The billboard is an ad for an alleged company called Fastlane, which purports to give you, for a considerable fee, “priority access to the websites […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist Wil Murray talks about his labor-intensive installation in Toronto and painting by obscuring photographs. In 2011, Maxime Ballesteros came by my studio in Berlin. I’d asked him to photograph my work for some fly-by-night […]
The giant pothole in the middle of the Hart St and Knickerbocker Ave intersection in Bushwick has been “fixed.” This bright yellow El Especialito newspaper box was creatively placed into the hole to warn drivers of the obstacle (by replacing it with a more noticeable one). The hole was big enough to partially submerge the […]
According to a new study from John Hopkins Medicine, newborns who are exposed to rodent dander, “roach allergens” and various household bacteria before the age of one, have a lower chance of developing asthma or wheezing later on in childhood. Infants who grew up in homes with mouse and cat dander and cockroach droppings in the first year […]
And just like that, Death Grips has just dropped the first half of their new double album, the powers that b. Below, listen to the eight-track “niggas on the moon” for free and download a zip at thirdworlds.net. The album features Björk on every track, mostly as beautiful vocalizations, sampled to thump and glow under MC Ride’s bellowing raps. […]
Osama Saleh, a former stock clerk at Bushwick’s now-closed Pretty Girl clothing store, was awarded $4.7 million by a federal jury last Friday, after his managers dismissed complaints of workplace harassment. The lawsuit states that security guard James Robinson repeatedly called Saleh “Bin Laden” and a “terrorist.” Saleh, who is from Yemen, stated that Robinson constantly ranted about “dirty […]
