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February 19, 2013 Marina Galperina

While Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido is getting press attention for designing a system that will allegedly prevent further subway deaths, we’ve got two reasons for you to hate it. Reason #1: It’s stupid. LoBaido’s “simple, common-sense concept” is for a long “safety rail ladder” to be installed beneath each subway platform in NYC. So, if […]

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Eugene Reznik

Having already pinpointed the happiest intersection in Manhattan at 7th and 77th (near Hayden Planetarium), the applied mathematicians at Computational Story Lab are expanding their scope in an effort to map out the existential condition of the entire country. Unlike art cartographer Eric Fischer who used geotag data of tweets to map density of twitter […]

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Marina Galperina

Coming this year to the New York Park Avenue Armory… Gigantic lines! Hysterical art peoples! Sexual bartering on Craigslist! New York’s most avant garde still-so-hotshot theater director extraordinaire Robert Wilson is back. The US premiere of his opera/collaborative project “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović” — the most famous living performance artist — will take place in the Armory’s drill […]

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Samer Kalaf

The person responsible for fucking up Burger King’s Twitter presence yesterday decided to target Jeep today. The new theme was Cadillac, and a lot of the tweets were similar to Monday’s, but this time there was a link to a full Chief Keef mixtape and another “WORLDSTAAAAAR” among the shoutouts. And yes, Lil Internet was […]

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Andy Cush

Brazilian illustrator and designer Butcher Billy created the above series of pieces in which he recasts real-life “bad guys” in the shoes of comic book supervillains. Osama bin Laden becomes the Green Goblin, Charles Manson is the Joker, Hitler is Galactus, and Mark David Chapman is Doc Oc. But not all are such widely recognized […]

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Julia Dawidowicz

Humans have been indulging in alcohol since the dawn of civilization. No, wait. Earlier! Turns out that humanity’s taste for booze dates back 10 million years, to a common evolutionary ancestor that we share with chimpanzees and gorillas. This is what scientists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, FL have concluded based on […]

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Samer Kalaf

Micro Air Vehicles are the hot new drone for 2013, or whenever they’re actually created by the Air Force. In this simulated video, MAVs look like horrifying flying things that are “unobtrusive, pervasive, lethal.” These tightly controlled drones can spy, scan and shoot someone in the head. And these MAVs would range from the size […]

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Eugene Reznik

The Santa Eulalia — an austere, barren-walled, neo-Romanesque church located outside Barcelona — recently had its main dome re-done. Father Ramon Borr commissioned graffiti writers RUDI and HOUSE to add some color and novelty, an idea that came to him last year “surfing the web,” he explains to Gerry Hadden. Even though the press is […]

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Marina Galperina

Established Seattle artist Charles Krafft has been quite successful in the controversial-kitschy ceramics genre. His work has been widely exhibited, collected and Tumblr’ed. He collaborated with Mike Leavitt on Pitchfork Pals — a series of Hitler, Manson and Kim Jong Il teapots. Very popular stuff. Oh, and he’s a bit of a white supremacist. Seattle’s The Stranger refers to some Facebook […]

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Andy Cush

Sadly, it may be too late to have Sonic Youth play your birthday party but you still may have a chance with one of its leading members. The press release for the debut album by Thurston Moore’s new post-quasi-breakup band, Chelsea Light Moving, includes this interesting tidbit: “The band is ready to detonate any birthday […]

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