Back in mid-February, billionaire Russian oligarch (and Chelsea Football Club owner), Roman Abromavich, set tongues wagging when he docked his super luxury yacht, the 533-ft Eclipse, at Pier 90, on Manhattan’s West Side. By tonight, it will have cast off to another pier and then back towards billionaire wonderland, from whence it came, according to […]
The person who buffed this New York City wall is either really bad at matching colors or trying their hand at modern street art. (Photo: Joseph Robertson/Flickr) […]
To celebrate the impending premier of Arrested Development‘s long-awaited third season, designer Josh Cox created these beautiful vintagey album covers for each of the show’s characters. Take a look at George Bluth’s There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand, Gob & Franklin’s It Ain’t Easy Being White, It Ain’t Easy Being Brown, Tobias Fünke’s I’m Afraid […]
Secretbook is a Google Chrome extension created by twenty-one year old Oxford Univesity student Owen-Campbell Moore as a way to send messages without that pesky ongoing survieilience that Facebook has become so widely known for. The messages, hidden in JPEG images, may only be accessed via a user created password shared between the creator and […]
We just can’t fully accept that these aren’t real, living, stinking fish. Singapore-based Keng Lye created a series of three-dimensional sea creatures — “Alive Without Breath” — by painstakingly layering epoxy resin and acrylic paint in various containers. This technique was invented last year by a different artist, Riusuke Fakahori, but Lye takes things to […]
Graphic designer and More Ambitious Person Than You Brandon Todd Wilson is designing a number logo for every day of the year: Zero is January 1, one is January 2, and so on. Yesterday, April 11, was day 100. Impressively, each logo has a tight aesthetic all its own, which as you might imagine, leads […]
“We exist within a built environment that is constantly mediated by the grid.” This Saturday night, Brooklyn’s net art gallery Transfer is holding the anticipated opening for artist A. Bill Miller’s “Gridworks,” combining “coldness and rationality of the grid confronts the warmth and playfulness of the human touch” with a series of new ASCII-based works. His visuals […]
For many of us, that densely salty, artificial “chicken” flavor of instant ramen noodles summons the darkest of memories — memories of being broke, sick, malnourished, neglected, too busy to prepare a substantial meal or… did I mention broke? But for Georgi Readman, an eighteen year old girl from England’s Isle of Wight, ramen is […]
London artist Shantell Martin stopped by the office we share with our “Mother” to create some flow-of-consciousness art. “It’s almost like the pen knows where it’s going and I follow,” she explains. Watch her in action. (Video: Jason Leiva/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Are you going to die? No worries. Not only is there a new Google service that manages your data when you’re dead, it cleverly seems to sidestep any actual mention of death. Rather, it says, “What happens to your account when you stop using it? Google puts you in control.” Your account will go into a “time-out” […]
