In the first major victory for the whiners in their ongoing, inexplicable battle against bike share, a group of West Village residents have convinced the Department of Transportation to move a docking station that was originally positioned in front of their co-op building. DOT workers moved the station from the southeast corner of Barrow and […]
Sal, Harlem. (Photo: Ian Bell) […]
The sign warning about Eyebeam’s “offensive” Venus Webcam installation has been updated at last night’s Internet Week New York opening party. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Lars von Trier’s hotly anticipated two-part epic Nymphomaniac did not make it to Cannes because they weren’t ready. They — parts of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, and various fucking pornstars — were still being rendered together into a seamless, hardcore celebrity experience. Producer Louise Vesth explains: We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had […]
If you’ve been waiting for interesting art within the virtual space since Eva and Franco Mattes re-performances in Second Life, here’s something. Cloud Party is a new, free virtual platform that looks and feels familiar, but remains completely in your browser, without any pesky installation processes. Since the people at Cloud Party have been so kind as to give […]
These microscopic crystal flowers were grown by Harvard researcher Wim L. Noorduin by dissolving barium chloride and sodium silicate into water. When the carbon dioxide diffuses the solution, intricate patterns form in the barium crystal. The resulting nanoscale blossoms seem to have been picked right out of a fairy’s garden. Varying levels of acidity drastically impact […]
Hidden within the sterile, long-abandoned second floor rooms of the Farley Post Office in Midtown, there is a vast and impressive collection of art. Works by Picasso, Warhol, Basquiat, Condo, Manzoni and others — some never before exhibited in public — contrast stunningly against the decrepit walls and outdated decor of the labyrinthine space. Decades ago, there […]
This is one of those projects whose premise basically speaks for itself. A group of digital artists developed a program that runs Google’s satellite images of Earth through facial recognition software, finding the faces that are hidden on the planet’s landscape. Watch the brilliant software at work below, and see some of its findings in […]
Scorpions, spiders, lobsters, millipedes, and flies — they all evolved from a common ancestor, the “scissor-armed” Cambrian-era arthropod kooteninchela deppi, whose recently discovered 505-million-year-old fossil may vastly change our understanding of how all modern lifeforms emerged. But how does one aptly name an extinct, sea-dwelling, pincer-clawed megaceiran mofo? Same as how boy-crazy tweens have named […]
The promise of Defense Distributed’s Liberator 3D-printed handgun–that it would “free” firearms from the firearms industry, putting a gun in the hands of anybody who wants one–is really a dot on the horizon. Cody Wilson and co. got one to fire, yes, but they did it with an $8,000 printer that looks like a vending […]
