Times Haiku, an algorithm designed by the New York Times’s senior software architect, scans the day’s paper for any fragments of text that could be broken into a three-line, seventeen-syllable poem, then posts it to Tumblr. Brilliant! Some highlights: To many, the Mets appear destined for a fifth straight losing season. His wife was his world […]
DNA mapping is nifty. We’ve seen genetic code used to create 3D portraits of strangers and permanently store Shakespearean sonnets and Martin Luther King speeches. Now, Dutch design studio Tjep. is bringing custom DNA-mapped furniture into your living room. Tjep. founder Frank Tjepkema and DutchDNA‘s Eric Wolthuis extract genetic profiles, map the data with 3D imaging, and transform a […]
It was only a matter of time before 3D-printing and body “alteration” — two of the year’s biggest buzz-topics– collided. The result? Art. COLLAGENE is a Kinect software application designed to create custom, adaptable face masks. The program digitally scans the user’s face, allowing them to edit their own detailed, perfectly-fitting design, which is then 3D-printed […]
Cab Roulette is a recurring series in which comedian Dan Speiser interviews cab drivers about their experiences on the job. Eric is a jolly man who hails from Ghana and doesn’t think the U.S. will catch up to them in Soccer any time soon. Episode 1: Abdulai Episode 2: Tony Episode 3: Adama Episode 4: Santos Episode 5: Sam Episode 6: Chowdhry […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week, we have JUNO-nominated “doom soul” singer-songwriter Cold Specks, who selected music from artists as wide-ranging as Nick Cave, Portishead, and ’90s Canadian alt-rockers The Inbreds. Click the big play button above […]
If you liked the idea of purchasing the vacuum sealed JAMES FRANCO man of the world cover with all BUSHWICK foods including homemade chocolate chip cookies and local anchovies art piece from Brad Troemel, you’ll love a Jogging book. TheJogging.Tumblr.Com is a collaborative blog of fresh conceptual and digital art. Jogging presents a Jogging book, an open edition book […]
The latest offering from skate/art gallery boom-art puts Renaissance painter Heironymous Bosch’s notoriously trippy and nudity-filled Garden of Earthly Delights rendered across three skate decks. Though the original is also a triptych, the skate version appears to only feature its middle panel (the most trippy and nudity-filled one, natch). Incidentally, the last boom-art decks we featured […]
Democratic State Senator Malcom Smith was arrested by FBI agents today after allegedly scheming to rig the 2013 New York City mayoral election. According to the feds, Smith issued bribes to several GOP leaders in order to get himself on the Republican ticket. According to sources contacted by the Post, the state senator would have needed the […]
Not even six-second clips are safe from Prince’s well–documented copyright fury, it seems, as the artist’s label has served Vine and its parent company, Twitter, with several Digital Millenium Copyright Act complaints over videos posted to the service. In all likelihood, this was the result of innocent people innocently Vining something that happened to involve […]
Ed, Midtown West. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
