When you’re shopping, are you aware of exactly what it is that you’re buying, and which parent company benifits? It would be pretty crazy to have all that information on hand, but luckily for us, “there’s an app for that.” Buycott is a new app available on iPhone and Android that allows you to scan […]
Meet “the ultimate god mode.” From Special Stage Systems, here is Ming Mecca. Essentially, it is a new hybrid analog machine — a synthesizer that allows you control, manipulate, and hack the laws and visuals of vintage video games. Watch that trailer. With the heart of a video synthesizer and the brain of a videogame console, Ming Mecca […]
The week-long Brooklyn festivities celebrating beautiful creep Henry Miller are mid-swing. Through Sunday, City Reliquary is showing off the writer’s “original manuscripts, letters,” etc as Henry Miller’s Memorial Library project hangs out on the East Coast. It’s called “Big Sur,” after a place that Miller actually liked, unlike Brooklyn. The New Yorker reminds you that Henry Miller […]
Ellis, Chelsea. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The MTA is working hard to get the subways to the Rockaways back on track and according to the transit agency’s spokesman, should be up and running by next month. (Photo: MTA/Flickr) […]
Are you ready, bitch? It’s not Britney. It’s Scott Walker, world’s most experimental baritone, an amazing artist, and if you don’t know, I can’t explain it to you. I’m not cool enough. BUT WHAT IS THIS? Is he singing will.i.am’s terrible, terrible pop song “Scream & Shout” featuring the inexplicably British accent-ing Britney Spears? OH MY GOD. […]
I know, I know. You’re depressed. Its’s an oppressive, overwhelming, dehumanizing world out there. You’re single, your “friends” are all assholes, the summer sun feels like some cruelly ironic wink at the coldness inside your soul. But there’s good news: Weed is a thing! (And so are dabs, for that matter) A study published in Social […]
Last year, Arne Svenson began secretly photographing his neighbors in their homes, as seen through his 2nd-floor TriBeCa apartment window. Now, the Julie Saul Gallery in Chelsea is selling prints from “The Neighbors” for thousands of dollars a piece. The project’s unsuspecting muses aren’t too thrilled about Svenson’s success. Considering the series includes shots of a lady’s butt […]
It’s a hot air balloon. But still, damn. If you happen to see magnificent creature flying around the outback this summer, do not be alarmed. Created by Patricia Piccinini–the artist behind this supremely bizarre human-animal hybrid sculpture—Skywhale looks like a giant bird-fish with droopy, bulbous breasts instead of wings. It is absolutely beautiful, and it will […]
Calm down, internet. It’s not like someone dropped two milli on the Deviant Art erotic fan doodle bea_aarthurXXXhott.jpg. This is Famous Painter John Fucking Currin! For the Art Patron Class, $1.9 million is a good deal. Yesterday, Christie’s New York of post-war and contemporary art sell-a-thon fetched in an all-art-auctions-ever record total of $495 million. Among the sold works: […]
