Month: November 2014
When Pierre Merhej, the manager of the Radisson Hotel near JFK airport received a call from the city seeking 100 hotel rooms for a government group, he did not expect the guests to be homeless people seeking shelter. “When you say they have a government group, as hotel people we like government groups,” Merhej told DNAinfo. The hotel […]
Ded, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
After painting a Ri¢hie Ri¢h mural, street artist Jerkface goes for round two on the wall outside of Rag & Bone with this Peanuts throwback. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Jenkem magazine released a gnarly new skate video entitled “The Search for BLDG.40,” that was shot at an “abandoned psychiatric center in New York state.” Although skateboarders Sean Collelo and Rob Miclei didn’t name the off-limits location, it appears to be the old Rockland Psychiatric Center, an expansive mental hospital built in 1927. It’s comprised […]
Artist Ole Fach has a pretty amazing little net art riff on old school Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich. GOOGLEMATISM recreates the strong basic shapes and popping colors of the legendary painter by searching Google Images for matches that resemble the components of the painting. Suprematism was a school of painting that focused on very strong, basic shapes […]
By 2014, the standard props used to depict alcohol consumption or cigarette smoking on set have been well-established within the film industry. But how do studios and producers handle scenes in which their shows’ characters have to light it up with some weed? Flavorwire has a fascinating piece that investigates that very question, and the […]
Andy Baio has a YouTube channel collecting some amazing media-ephemera from the ’90s and this gem embedded above will teach you everything you need to know about the internet through complicated analogies like “The internet is an airport.” If viewing naive takes on the internet isn’t amazing enough, the public television graphics and strange out-of-time fashions of […]
The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled (PDF doc) that all drone flights can be considered illegal. For drone users, Tuesday’s ruling by an appeals board will be very important announcement to pay attention to. The FAA claims that it will release clear regulations for drones by the end of the year, but for now, […]
A new documentary-in-the-making seeks to recapture the spirit of the ’90s-era Lower East Side squatters and their fight with the NYPD under then-New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. Anytime, Baby: The War for the Lower East Side, by Queens resident and filmmaker John Frisbie, revisits the sordid era of New […]
Art shows in Bushwick tend to be one of three types: They either fall into the regurgitated abstract painting/stuff-made-out-of-junk category, the every-once-in-a-while progressive and engaging category, or the free-for-all, “we’re just having fun,” category. Secret Project Robot’s “Headshop” definitively falls into that last designation. But by no means should that be considered second, or even […]
