Month: August 2014
Two white people showed up in Ferguson on Wednesday evening carrying signs in support of Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, angering some on what was an otherwise calm night. A crowd of protesters (and journalists) quickly formed around them and one young man lobbed a water bottle in their […]
Upper West Side resident Kang Chun Wong was arrested on January 21st, when he allegedly crossed W. 96th Street at Broadway against the light. As he only speaks Cantonese and Spanish, he didn’t understand why Officer Jeffrey Loo took his ID and began to walk away. He protested. The Daily News explains: Loo, joined by several more unidentified cops, pushed Wong up against […]
Last night at around 7pm, protestors marched over the Brooklyn Bridge towards City Hall as a large Palestinian flag reading “Gaza. Boycott Divestment Sanctions” was unfurled from the Manhattan Bridge. The flag was removed by the NYPD approximately 30 minutes later. Reportedly 300 people attended the protest. The "no justice, no peace" chant has made it's […]
David, Brooklyn. (Photo: Abian Sacks) […]
FADE, Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s a fantastic music video for yaming’s “umio” produced by BRDG. It’s pulsating and completely overwhelming, cascading glitchy collages of various Japanese internet ephemera and interfaces, withering like electrocuted innards. Enjoy. (GIF: Prosthetic Knowledge) […]
New evidence points to the possibility that the NYPD lied about a deadly vehicular incident last year when 24-year-old Japanese student Ryo Oyamada was ran over by Officer Darren Ilardi while crossing 40th Avenue in Queens. The police reported that the cruiser’s emergency lights had been on at the time of the crash and that the officer was […]
From Australian artist Andy Thomas, here is a visualization of a bird sounds from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The artist specializes in “audio art forms” like these. It’s immaculate and hypnotic. Watch the render go from abrupt to undulating, feathery to fluid. (GIF: Prosthetic Knowledge) […]
Sixteen-year-old Lolita Richie has never even heard of “racist space alien” Valeria Lukyanova, she claims. Aspiring to internet fame and anatomy-defying “living doll” aesthetics, “I’m the ultimate vamp woman,” the teenager tells the Daily Mail. And so it begins. Lolita boasts just 40 followers on Russian social network VK page. Her 33-year-old mother, former actress Anya Richi, takes photos of Lolita dressed up in Anya’s old […]
Delaware Governor Jack Marshall has signed the “Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets and Digital Accounts Act,” guaranteeing access for heirs and executors to digital assets like social media profiles and data on mobile devices. The act originated with the Uniform Law Commission, and now Delaware has become the first state to make it law. Though tech giants […]
