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There’s something oddly poetic about the complexities of governmental bureaucracy and law–just ask David Foster Wallace and Terry Gilliam. German information designer Oliver Bieh-Zimmert has taken that idea to its logical, literal conclusion with his Network of the German Civil Code, an installation piece that puts the titular country’s notoriously complicated Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch ca. 1896 up on the wall (all 2,385 […]
Though the potential consumer and commercial applications for 3D-Printing get wider every day, its high cost and high-tech wonkiness has prohibited it from becoming a household item. The 3Doodler, a handheld 3D-printing device that’s currently funding on Kickstarter, may change all that. “Everyone knows how to use a pen,” says Peter Dilworth, one of 3Doodler’s […]
Because rat-infested cars are apparently something you have to worry about now: according to the Brooklyn Paper, Kings County repair shops and exterminators are seeing an uptick in cars that won’t start due to rodents’ nests under the hood. A manager at Bay Ridge Lexus, for example, said he’s seen five ratmobiles so far this winter. “You could […]
Roxie, Union Square. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Sunlight shines onto graffiti in the Freedom Tunnel. (Photo: sabeth718/Flickr) […]
The New York Post, sadly reports that police issued less tickets to “rogue cyclists” in 2012 compared to 2011, even though more and more people are riding bikes: The number of rogue cyclists ticketed for traffic infractions in 2012 dropped by nearly 20 percent from the year before, despite growing numbers of bicycle riders on […]
Vivan Maier was one of the best street photographers no one’s ever heard off, until one lucky kid found 100,000 of her negatives. Nanny by day, and brilliant photographer by later that day, Maier privately captured decades of Chicago’s history. She was also a hoarder, a hermit and just a little bit strange. She hid everything. […]
Photographer Cheyne Gallarde took to Kickstarter last year with a unique way to raise hype and funds for his Universe of One self-portrait series. The project was designed to be a book in which he’d take on the likenesses of a large cast of characters from a variety of backgrounds and genders — an idea derived […]
He said that He said to be cool but He said that the atom resembles a tiny rock He said take care This anaphoric literary gem was not penned by a tormented soul infatuated with an eloquent chemist with commitment issues. It was created by algorithms and Google autocomplete. It’s just one of hundreds of such “poems” […]
If you haven’t submitted your 6-second Vine to our Unofficial Vine NC-17 #VeryShortFilmFest, this is your final reminder. You have until midnight tomorrow, Tuesday 2/19, to submit by making video art, porn, porny video art or arty porno video (or something else fun, whatever) by Vining and Tweeting your vid with the hashtag #VeryShortFilmFest or emailing […]
