Month: June 2014
In 2012, graffiti writers KET, NOXER, and TRES painted an Inwood wall with a mural that implicitly labeled the NYPD, the Koch Brothers, Halliburton, and a slew of other entities as “murderers.” Unsurprisingly, the police were displeased, and plainclothes officers buffed the wall despite its owner having signed off on the art. Now, the spot will […]
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) announced yesterday that they’ve discovered a “new” rocky planet 650 light-years away, spotted by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. It is about 11 billion years old, circles a sunlike star once every 45 days and is all solid, “although it may possess a thin atmosphere shown here as wispy clouds” in the artist rendering above. […]
NYPD Inspector General Philip Eure started work last week, and to welcome him to the job, Communities United for Police Reform compiled a list of police problems that need fixing. The grievances are sadly predictable: lack of transparency, surveillance of Muslims, excessive force, use of condoms as evidence in sex work cases. The organzation also points […]
William, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
While some walls were getting gussied up for the Bushwick Collective at #BOS14, others were decaying nicely nearby. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In a riveting new profile of Russia’s pro-government trolls, Max Seddon explains the details of Kremlin’s newest campaign to adjust the world’s view of Putin Country. According to strategy documents leaked by “a mysterious Russian hacker collective,” a firm called Internet Research Agency employs a small army of English-speakers to diligently troll major websites. These trolls go […]
Adam Void has been traversing America’s underground for most of his life, and since 2003 he’s been capturing it in Polaroid. This series documents “the beginnings of the Carolina’s graffiti scene, 2006-10 era Brooklyn Street Art/Weirdo Graffiti underground, Baltimore and Philly’s warehouse squat culture of the early 2010’s, and hundreds of pictures from America’s back roads; […]
Oliver Stone is no stranger to making movies about things that just happened: W, his George W. Bush biopic, dropped months before the man left office, and he released a film about 9/11 in 2006. So it’s no surprise that the director’s latest project is an adaptation of The Snowden Files, Luke Harding’s recently released book about NSA leaker […]
MIT researcher Daniella Rus has been developing heat-activated self-building robots. In the video posted to MIT’s blog earlier today, you can watch these parts fold themselves into a mini robot, Transformers-like. It’s more dramatic than you think. The technology can also build individual robot parts like “muscles” and circuits. The final goal is to 3D-print […]
For Bushwick Open Studios 2014, the Bushwick Collective added a few more murals to the already street art-laden landscape of Troutman, Jefferson and Wyckoff streets. We caught Adam Fu, Vers, Solus and others in action over the weekend, but here the completed murals. This year, the Bushwick Collective also held a gallery show, featuring canvases by […]
