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For its inaugural mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s new nonprofit CASIS enlisted Shepard Fairey to create the smart-looking patch above, which each astronaut will wear on their shoulder. It’s not the first time a street artist has sent work to space, but it might be the most official. “I wanted to convey the […]
As stop-and-frisk goes on trial at Manhattan Federal Court, another hearing on the state of the police department happened in Jamaica, Queens last night. At a mayoral debate, seven candidates discussed the NYPD, focusing on stop-and-frisk, commissioner Ray Kelly, and the proposal to create an independent inspector general to oversee the department’s operations. The highest-profile […]
Ferguson, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
There’s layer upon layer of disrespect going down on this wall in Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Last week, some anonymous cyclists created some street art to remember a number of pedestrians and bike riders who were struck and killed by vehicle drivers with no criminal investigation done by the NYPD. Now, Time’s Up! uploaded a video containing living wills of various cyclists that state, should they be fatally struck by a […]
Finding that perfect little looping animation of dogs breaking up a cat fight, Elmo jumping, or Guy Fieri lapping up Pellegrino is about to get much easier: Today, Google announced a new image search feature that will allow you to filter your results to receive GIFs. A lucky few (not me) users have GIF search already, but the […]
Earlier today, the New York Times shared photos of a fun activity held in Central Park in the 1930s: Goat beauty contests. The pageants were held so that the Brewers Board of Trade could choose a poster goat for their bock beer advertisements. One of the contest’s winners was Pretzels-yes, the goat’s name was Pretzels-who, […]
Photographer Maurice Van Es recently put together this collection of photos he found in Sandy’s aftermath. He posted them online in hopes of tracing them back to their original owners. What a guy. Notice how the storm-inflicted damage almost superimposes an out-of-place hurricane aesthetic into the photographed scenes themselves — the warped film seems to […]
Texting may soon join the ranks of Facebook, Twitter, and other communication platforms that creepily record and permanently store all of your private interactions. Are you really all that surprised? If passed, a proposal being presented to Congress today would require all major wireless providers to capture and store customers’ SMS messages — meaning all […]
A New York woman smuggled over 600 oxycodone pills “inside of her body cavities” into Maine, but she-and her companion were caught and charged for trafficking controlled substances across state lines. The most unsettling part is how no specific body cavity was mentioned. It has to be butt, though, right? Or maybe a combo of […]
