Month: August 2014
TRAP shoot, Greenpoint. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Cake 1: Carvel Carvel sales representative said “Sure! No problem.” Cake decorator was concerned piping apparatus wouldn’t be able to pull off decorative bullets, but made valiant attempt. (Ordered 7/22 picked up 7/23, 261 5th Avenue) Cake 2: Baskin-Robbins Another Free Palestine! decorative message approved, but icing writer was also not confident in his/her ability […]
Dreams of flight are among the most euphoric of human experiences. But no matter how vividly you dream, once you wake up, the memory recedes. Now, we can finally experience realistic flight while fully conscious, thanks to the rapidly improving virtual reality device Oculus Rift and a program called Birdly by Swiss artist Max Rheiner. Wired explains: To simulate the effortlessness of […]
This week, the FBI and US Department of Justice released the results of an ongoing review of thousands of potentially wrongful convictions, based on their scientists’ testimonies. The FBI’s forensic methods of the 1980s and 1990s involved looking at hair samples under the microscope, without the mitochondrial DNA testing included with this type of analysis today. The […]
Today, glitChicago opens at Chicago’s Ukrainian Institute of Art (UIA), featuring 22 glitch artists from around the country. There has been a renaissance of new media art in the Windy City over the last few years, which hosted the GLI.TC/H in 2010 through 2012. Tonight will include live performances from many of the show’s participants, including A. Bill Miller and Nick Kegeyan, […]
Medical examiner spokeswoman Julie Bolcer stated that Eric Garner’s death is a homicide, the AP reports. The 43-year-old father of six died after being placed in chokehold by an NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo. Bolcer stated that Garner died as a result of “the compression of his chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police,” and that “asthma […]
In troll-ceptual eBay art news, a screenshot of 4chan post No. 33181590 has been up for sale on eBay since August 29th. The initial price was set at $500, but with less than eight hours to go, the bidding price has reached $90,100. The price leaped by $10,000 today alone. Dubbed “A one of a kind work of […]
This is “Shift Time” by the Great Void. The accompanying visuals were made by Los Angeles-based animator and video artist Johnny Woods. It features two avatars dancing enthusiastically. Surprisingly eloquent standing intercourse begins at 2:30. (GIF: Prosthetic Knowledge) […]
On Sunday, the New York Times publicly endorsed the legalization of weed and this week, it followed up that op-ed with numerous articles supporting its position. The paper addressed some of the xenophobic and medically inaccurate myths surrounding the plant in the past, so we decided to take a took a look back at its archives to see how […]
Before it became one of the biggest, most powerful companies in the world, 1986 was a dark time for Apple. After a dispute with Apple CEO John Scully, Steve Jobs had resigned to start his own company. The release of the Macintosh was a huge leap forward for personal computing, but the company’s turbulent period produced […]
