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Many of America’s prisons boast visiting rooms that are festooned with bizarre wall art, so that friends and family members of incarcerated people can take pictures of their loved ones on backdrops other than the depressing, institutional grays and whites of the correctional facility. Artist and photographer Alyse Emdur has compiled six years worth of […]
Premiering at SXSW this year on March 11 is Australian director Eva Orner’s documentary The Network, chronicling the rise of TOLO TV, the first independent television network in Afghanistan established in the wake of the American invasion. Launched in 2004, TOLO has since grown to employ 800 Afghan news producers and is one of the […]
Aren’t you loving Twitter’s ability to turn your life into a statistic? Yes? So, here’s an interactive map that the Gothamist found, depicting a vast diversity of languages tweeted throughout New York City, as detected by Google Translate. See the density of each language is visualized by neighborhood: English (grey), Spanish (second-most-tweeted language: blue), Portuguese (red), etc. The resulting infographic […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. Today, we look at The Chakachas’ “Yo Soy Cubano,” a song that provided sample fodder for two wildly different tracks: Kendrick Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle” and “Magic Carpet Ride” […]
That big one in Siberia wasn’t the first meteorite to touch down on Earth. French journalist Jean Abbiateci and developer Pablo Navarro created the below animated visualization, which maps every meteorite fall from 1900 on onto one global map. And what do we learn? That lots of space rocks have touched down in the U.S. […]
Spanish creative agency Lola Madrid would like to make the most ecologically friendly bike possible, and to do so, they’ve turned to an unlikely source: cars. In the above video, a frame is fashioned from recycled metal, turn signals become reflective lights, a transmission belt becomes a chain, and upholstery gets turned into seat and […]
Subway and bus riders can load both unlimited passes and single ride fares onto the same MetroCard, according to the MTA. The change is designed to help straphangers avoid the $1 charge that will come with all new MetroCard purchases starting March 1st. The new cards will automatically draw from unlimited rides first, then begin […]
A Park Slope good Samaritan is offering to digitally restore damaged photographs for anyone whose home was flooded in Hurricane Sandy. Through Cherished Albums Restoration Effort, an organization she founded after the storm, Lee Kelly organizes drives for people to bring up to 100 waterlogged prints, then farms them out to her global network of […]
Ricardo, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Someone painted block letters, literally, in Red Hook. (Photo: NewYorkStreetArt/Flickr) […]
