Month: January 2015
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. […]
A new report by the Department of Investigation has uncovered yet more dysfunction at the troubled Rikers Island prison. The New York Times reports that more than a third of the 153 recently hired corrections officers “had problems that either should have disqualified them or needed further scrutiny” during the application process. The “red flags” […]
DiPT or N,N-diisopropyltryptamine is a very unusual tryptamine psychedelic hallucinogen. Despite its relation to DMT and LSD, which produce visual effects as well as auditory effects, DiPT causes primarily auditory effects. Instead of seeing the walls warp and patterns fractalize, it morphs sounds, like music, voices. If you’re the psychedeli-curious type who wants to experience […]
The Whitney Museum is currently closed while it makes the enormous move from its Upper East Side location to the Meatpacking District. But even when open, its full permanent collection isn’t on view, which is why it’s great that the museum just recently dropped over 20,000 new images from the archives onto its website. That’s the […]
When Sims Municipal Recycling applied for a permit to build a wind turbine at its Sunset Park facility, the organization couldn’t have known it would take four years to receive approval. One reason for the delay is that the wind turbine at Sims is the first large-scale commercial-use turbine in the city, so there were no […]
Madison, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The late DG still running on the Manhattan Bridge.(Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Even though the once massive building known as 5Pointz has been completely demolished, the battle for its soul continues. Property owner Jerry Wolkoff is actively trying to call his soon-to-be-built condo complex 5Pointz and — after having attempted to trademark the name once already — has again tried and failed, reports the Daily News. This […]
German newspaper DIE ZEIT has published a troubling account by its Beijing correspondent Angela Köckritz, in which Köckritz reveals her ongoing struggles with Chinese authorities following the arrest and subsequent detainment of her assistant, Zhang Miao. The arrest occurred as the two had been covering the Occupy Central protests in Hong Kong in early October, […]
It’s only a matter of time before 19-year-old whiz kid and inventor Easton LaChappelle is a household name. At 14, he taught himself how to design a robotic hand out of Legos, fishing line, and servo motors. After learning about how insanely expensive prosthetics were — we’re talking tens of thousands of dollars, here — […]
