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Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Disasterpeace and in all likelihood, many other musicians have been hiding images in their songs for years. These Easter eggs can be found using something called a spectrograph, an application or instrument that creates visual renderings of audio signals. Other programs out there, like this one, or this one, do […]
Could you ever imagine a four year-old stealing a bag of weed? Would one even know what it was, or what to do with it? Hugo Encarnacion thought so. The Bronx man threatened his niece after coming to the conclusion that she stole four bags of his weed. We know this because Hugo’s sister came home […]
Only a damned cretin would deny the colossal impact that the late Allen Ginsberg had on the 20th century literary world. His divinely manic, sometimes-drug-fueled rants, punctuated by themes of sexual liberation, gritty urban romanticism and countercultural activism came to define the Beat Generation. And then James Franco played him in Howl. His aptitude as a […]
Wolfgang Laib’s much anticipated Pollen From Hazelnut has finally been installed in the atrium of the Museum of Modren Art. That’s 18 jars of bright yellow hazelnut pollen laid out on a platform, elevated six inches from the atrium floor. ArtInfo’s Ben Davis highlights the artwork’s post-minimalism with its Eastern philosophy influence and points out that it is […]
As you probably already know, the weather has been ungodly cold in New York this week. According to the Weather Channel, it’s 15 degrees Fahrenheit in Brooklyn at the time of this writing, and feels like 3 with wind chill factored in. And while these temperatures are difficult for anyone to bear, for many residents of the […]
Yesterday in the East Village, 28-year-old Melissa Scott attempted to steal a pair of $350 Jimmy Choo boots, then bit a store employee and drew blood when she was apprehended. Scott then fled from Cadillac’s Castle on 9th Street to St. Mark’s Place, where a police officer made an arrest. Then Scott bit the cop, […]
Carl, Madison Square Park. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It was 17°F today in New York. Are we having fun yet? (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Presented without commentary. But wait for the big reveal at the end! This thing is astonishingly precise. […]
3D printers are probably among the space-age-iest advancements of the tech world lately, banging out everything from 3D-printed burritos and presidential candidate dildos to guns and potential cancer cures. But until now, the 3D printer has yet to make its debut in actual outer space. That is about to change. Tech start-up Deep Space Industries […]
