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Maybe you saw those ‘aerial’ photos last week of Hong Kong’s cramped apartments where “square-footage count routinely dips into double digits”? Today, the Daily News has dug up photos of similar housing over in Tokyo where “communal” spaces make Bloomberg’s micro-apartments look like mansions. This morgue-like housing kind of brings a whole new meaning to […]
Scientists at the Tufts’ Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology have successfully “grown” functioning eyes for tadpoles by planting eye primordia in a tadpole’s tail and having it develop into an eyeball, with nerves and everything. To prove that the newly grown eye actually worked, scientists humanely cut and removed the original eyes from the […]
“Transfer,” what a perfect name for an IRL AFK net art gallery. L Magazine/Art F City reports: opening on March 16th, indie curator Kelani Nichole’s Transfer kicks things off with Alexandra Gorczynski (seen above.) Nichole (of the get>put> project) has previously worked with our favorites F.A.T. Lab. Kelani Nichole tells Whitney Kimball: “We’re building a stripped-down e-commerce platform, where we’re going to sell smaller […]
In January, Melville House reported a story about the Nabokov Museum at his estate outside St. Petersburg being vandalized by a group “unable,” among other things, “to separate fact from fiction.” It had a tone vaguely reminiscent of an Onion piece and described how a small group, going by some combination of “Orthodox Cossacks” and “free […]
Last night Peter Gabriel gave a TED talk announcing the launch of his most recent labor of love: The Interspecies Internet. Seriously. Are you ready to talk to dolphins, apes, elephants, and other “self-aware” animals online? “What would happen if we could somehow find new interfaces – visual, audio — to allow us to communicate with the […]
You may remember seeing the BigDog robot created by Boston Dynamics a couple years ago, when they put this video online and instilled fear into humans of a robot’s capabilities, but back then, the BigDog was only good at running. As evidenced from this new video, the BigDog can now throw cinderblocks and maintain its […]
Signage? Who needs signage? Take a tour through Brooklyn, where the bars have no names… on the outside. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In preparation for his solo show in Los Angeles, artist Jonathan Paul/Desire Obtain Cherish created a series of giant sculptures. Designer luxury drugs. Get it? Get it? It’s like Tom Sachs and Damien Hirst had a baby. In a Duke’s sorority house bathroom. […]
“It’s a trade show.” “It’s makes me feel really gross.” “It’s trophy day.” That’s a focus group of New York’s most respected art critics, PhDs, organizers and agents of creative institutions talking about the 100th Armory Show. It demystifies the reasons why some of us feel a disconnect strolling between hundreds of art pieces in […]
In the video for “Ingenue,” from the Thom Yorke side project Atoms For Piece, our hero dons a snazzy three-piece suit and dances to his jittery heart’s content for four minutes alongside dancer Fukiko Takase. Garth Jennings, director of Son of Rambow and clips for countless other great musicians, just made the perfect Thom Yorke video. […]
