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February 6, 2013 Andy Cush

That illustration above is law student Asher J. Kohn’s concept of what a fully operational drone-proof city might look like. Rather than building barriers to keep people out and deter weapon strikes like traditional defenses, Kohn’s concept–called Shura City–includes several technologies that obscure people and their movements in order to make them untraceable by UAVs. […]

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Eugene Reznik

Conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg’s 25-by-75-foot billboard You & Me was recently revealed at 18th Street by Friends of the High Line. The bold text and bright colors remind of 1960s poster art and concert flyers, which is right about when Ruppersberg began exhibiting in LA. It’s no Maurizio Cattelan’s severed fingers or David Shrigley’s excruciating internal […]

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Andy Cush

If you clicked this link, you, like me, were struck with a fit of morbid curiosity after seeing that the son of multi-millionaire fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger makes rap music. Would this be sub-Chet Haze drivel? Or would Ricky Hil (formerly known as Rich Hil, for anybody keeping score) somehow find something interesting to say, […]

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Marina Galperina

We’ve all snuck photos of fellow subway commuters, but photographer Rebecca Davis went beyond your pedestrian Instagram snap. She calls her project New York Underground “an update” to Walker Evans’ Many Are Called.  Davis turned some of her work into this narrative short that plays out like a photo flip-book of interactions. Some sequences of nuances are fantastic. […]

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Andy Cush

“It turns out that, while a folding wheel is useful for cyclists, it can actually be life changing for wheelchair users,” says Vitamins Design’s Adam Westaway of his company’s brand new fold-up wheel. “There are so many problems associated with storing and transporting wheelchairs, and the biggest problem is the wheel size.” Westaway and the […]

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Andy Cush

With Obama’s drone war in full swing and expanded to include the killing of Americans, the Department of Defense will continue to purchase new UAVs, but what will the U.S. do with it’s older models? The burgeoning drone industry will need to find some new buyers. The most obvious place they’ll look is with police […]

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Allison Bagg

Elmer, Financial District. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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February 5, 2013 Bucky Turco

Graffiti artists continue to graciously provide outdoor visuals in Bushwick for riders of the J/M trains. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Eugene Reznik

Snapshots, portraits, landscapes — for about 175 years, most photographers have used the camera to depict what we can see. “But another tradition exists,” writes gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel: a parallel history in which photographers and other artists have attempted to describe by photographic means that which is not so readily seen: thought, time, ghosts, god, […]

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Andy Cush

To test just how clever Cleverbot really is, director Chris R. Wilson created a short film, co-written by the celebrated artificial intelligence platform and acted out by real humans. According to Wilson, he’d set up scenes for Cleverbot, then allow it to fill in the characters’ dialogue. The resulting film is as zany as should […]

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