Ryoji Ikeda’s newest stunning project superposition combines his classic hypnotic, pulsating, pure data visualisations with a live, interactive element. Watch as “operators” interrupt his scrolling code and calibrating sine waves with projections of them live-punch-filling vintage forms, surveying heat maps of mysterious geology and solving crossword puzzles. superposition is a project about the way we understand the reality of nature on […]
What’s Montana up to these days? Making use of dead animals that got hit by vehicles! The Senate voted 33-15 in favor of the law allowing the roadkill meat to be donated to charities and fed to the needy if the animal is salvageable. For the record, I’d totally eat elk that was clipped by […]
To kick off the launch of their collaborative spring collection, clothing designers Daryl K and Steven Alan enlisted street artist MARE 139 — with an assist from artist Jimmy Raskin — to paint live over denim at the Steven Alan store on 10th avenue. The apparel and artwork will be auctioned off on eBay (links […]
British television network ITV recently commissioned a documentary about Now That’s What I Call Music, the second-most iconic popular music compilation of all time (behind only Pure Moods, of course). Produced by Reef Television, the house behind such masterpieces as The Grape Escape, Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses, and Britain’s First Photo Album Presented by John Seargant, the film will presumably tell […]
California weed-smokers no longer have to go through the grueling inconvenience of dragging themselves to a dispensary. Hurray, weed vending machines. At least three dispensaries in L.A. are already using the technology, and several companies, such as Orange County’s Dispense Labs, have begun marketing different products to weed shops throughout the Golden State. Dispense Labs’ machines […]
This trailer for the upcoming We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks documentary looks legit. Alex Gibney also directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and Client 9, so, yes, it’s probably legit. Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets: The […]
With the prospect of more domestic drones looming closer and closer, Mayor Bloomberg seems to know that it’s wrong and invasive, judging from this radio interview, but there’s also nothing he (or we) can really do about it. While Bloomberg, for one, doesn’t welcome our new drone overlords, his philosophy seems rather fatalistic: Like it […]
Since 2011, when we heard about Selena Good-Girl-Tee-Hee-Hee Gomez watching all Harmony Korine’s movies at his house in Nashville and saw James Franco practicing his gangsta cred in some parking lot, we’ve been waiting for this Spring Breakers thing to pop. And it pop pop popped. Yes, of course, I saw the movie last week, and I […]
The above video starts with promise: a woman’s naked body sits in the center of the frame, appearing to slowly morph (NSFW, dummy). Her hair shoots into the air, her skin sags then tightens, she begins to lean forward at the waist. Is she aging before our eyes? Filmmaker Michael Haussman achieved the effect by having […]
Imagine getting all the visceral thrill of Chatroulette without the anxiety brought on by actually having to hold a conversation with another human. It looks a little like Rando, an iOS app that lets you take photos that are shared with exactly one other randomuser. In return, of course, you’ll occasionally receive photos from your anonymous friends around […]
