Month: September 2014
A traffic light swooshes past our heads. We duck down under the High Line. From the roof, artist Jennifer Catron leads the tour group to chant “LARRY! LARRY! LARRY!” directly outside one of Larry Gagosian’s 15 galleries, but, unsurprisingly, he doesn’t come out to say hello. Artist Paul Outlaw is at the wheel of this hand-modified auto-beast. We bump through Chelsea, […]
Today is a big deal in Scotland as millions of voters cast ballots for a referendum deciding whether their country will be independent from the United Kingdom or not. By most accounts, it’s going to be very close. Someone in Shoreditch, London’s street art mecca, had this to say about the historic vote. (Photos: photographer695) […]
Even before intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revealed the extent of monitoring being undertaken by the NSA in surveilling everyday citizens, cryptographers and computer scientists have been trying to achieve the ultimate in security: a system that can not be hacked. Now, a few companies are working on a promising solution. Quantum key distribution is a […]
Of the 2.3 million Americans currently confined to the U.S. prison system, most of them barely have access to phones or the internet. But former inmate Frederick Hutson thought up a way to give convicts and their families the ability to use internet-like services while he was serving time for a weed offense. His website, Pigeon.ly, provides a […]
The NYPD’s “Operation Lucky Bag” decoy operation, which has been in use for a decade, is finally facing some restrictions. The operation consists of police officers leaving bags or other items vulnerable to theft in open, public spaces, and waiting to arrest those who pick them up. The tactic has lead to arrests of those […]
Electronic artist Holly Herndon is continually breaking new ground, both musically and through her innovative, jarring videos. For her new track “Home,” perhaps her catchiest song to date, she stares blankly towards the camera, mouthing the words that appear in a black box in the lower right corner. The anti-surveillance sentiment of the video, which was […]
For those hoping to get in one last swim in the Gowanus Canal before summer officially ends, don’t. I Quant NY‘s latest map is an analysis of which waterways in New York are tested as unsafe for swimming the most often. The reason: too much poop. As I Quant NY’s Ben Wellington explains, when heavy rain occurs, New […]
In post-recession Manhattan, the rich are making nearly as much as they did before the economic disaster, while the poor are make the same or even less. The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, released today, reveals that the top 5% in Manhattan took in $854,394 in the final year of Bloomberg’s administration, 88 times the […]
Iggy, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artists VEW and LEX improved a box truck in Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
