Month: December 2014
Nothing says outrage at the creeping surveillance state like an adorable terrier wearing human clothes with leaked NSA documents printed on them. Big Data Pawn Shop, an art project/clothing label wants you to be able to make a fashion STATEMENT with the documents that Edward Snowden risked his life to smuggle out of NSA headquarters. If […]
While protests erupted in New York City and nationwide against another grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man, graffiti and street artists headed down south for Miami’s annual artsy clusterfuck. This flock of creative talent descended on the Wynwood neighborhood, where they partied and […]
As citizens around the United States are increasingly losing confidence in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman would like New York’s governor to grant him power to override local attorney generals in cases involving police killing unarmed citizens. Following the high-profile cases of Eric Garner and Mike Brown in which officers […]
While the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service will be opening on Sundays to accommodate holiday shippers, a post office in London is trying a different tactic: opening up a 3D printing station. Motherboard reports that the U.K.’s privatized postal service Royal Mail is now selling 3D printed products at one test site, offering customers the opportunity […]
A team made up of Ivy League students has built a drone from organic mushroom materials that can bio-degrade rapidly. The students from Brown, Spelman, and Stanford also say that in situations like space travel, where transportation of materials is always difficult, astronauts would simply need to bring a small sample of the necessary bacteria or […]
In a show of support for the demonstrations against police violence in the United States (and elsewhere), a photo was posted to Twitter by Dëneze Nakehk’o, a member of grassroots collective Dene Nahjo, showing aboriginals (and people of other ethnic backgrounds) in Canada holding a banner that reads: “Black lives matter.” It was taken in […]
KLOPS is a prolific graffiti artist in New York City who not only writes his name, but also draws characters. He makes legal art, too: Every week, be on the lookout for an original KLOPS comic with the artist’s take on current events. […]
Tumblr has released its roundup of the most popular, talked about, and re-blogged content/noise/shit from the image-heavy social network over the course of 2014. There’s stuff in there that’s cool (art, rando blogs) and there’s a lot that isn’t (actors, sponsored content, terrible music), so we’ve put together a list of what you should care […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist Morehshin Allahyari discusses her web-based project Like Pearls. You can see more of her work here and read an interview with the artist here. October 6, 2013 Looking through my spam folder, I […]
In New York, Sunday night marked the fifth consecutive evening of demonstrations against a Staten Island jury’s decision to not indict a cop for the death of Eric Garner. The New York Times reports that about 250 protesters gathered in Union Square and marched to Grand Central Station to hold a “die-in” before going to […]
