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After months of grueling marketing research, this Emmy-winning reality TV production company has officially concluded that “*** in the city” and “an ensemble of wise-beyond-their-years young ladies… living the dream in Hipster Brooklyn” would make some great reality television fodder! A radical concept, but so crazy, it just might work! So, was Girls not real enough for you? […]
Here are some cute and pithy illustrations from French artist Jean Jullien that reflect on our very internet daily lives. Ooh, depressing! Or maybe not. That all depends on whether you’ve made peace with the fact that you cuddle with your smartphone at night, one eye open for friend status update alerts, your existence justified solely by […]
By some unknown digital wizardry (Melodyne? An Echo Nest API?) a relatively anonymous digital artist has changed R.E.M.’s colossal “Losing My Religion” from dark and impressionistic to sunny and Smiths-y. The secret? Taking every minor note in the song and raising it by a half step (putting the song in its parallel major key, for […]
Hey, suave art buyer. Do you miss privacy, secrecy and surprise? Here’s a gimmick just for you: At the Lower East Side Oliphaunt, for an annual fee of $1,200, you get a piece of art shipped to your house four times a year and you won’t know what it is until it gets there! You will, […]
In what must be the most frightening news of the day, 57-year-old Long Island dentist Robert Garelick was arrested for reckless endangerment yesterday after conducting a procedure while drunk. Information about the case beyond that is relatively scant, and there are some burning questions I’d like answered. How drunk was he–are we talking two-beer lunch […]
Over the summer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a request for proposals to design, build, and run a building full of 275- to 300-square-foot apartments on East 27th Street. The units are smaller than the city’s regulations currently allow, and would serve as a pilot program for downsized living. “Research has shown that stable, affordable housing can have […]
Tom, Cobble Hill. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
A simple, but effective anti-parking ticket strategy is deployed across the front seats of a car parked in Little Italy. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Oh my God. Hold me. This is beautiful. Let’s all just look at this gorgeous glitch portrait of the New York Germany-based artist Kim Asendorf who works with experimental “generative strategies, physical computing, data and glitch” and tell me how this is less relevant than Turner. Because it’s not. In 2010, Asendorf coined the term “pixel sorting” — an algorithmic image […]
From artists/graphic designers Iain Hector and Jamie Winder, here is Garbage: English In China Junk. It’s art. A short collection of Chinese spam emails, as received and translated through Google Translate. Designed in one day at various locations and printed on a Risograph RZ370, the book reflects both the throw–away nature of spam emails and also the accidental humour […]
