If you’re a photography wonk, you might be interested to know that this interactive webcam app digitally replicates an analog imaging process called slit-scanning, first developed on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you’re someone, who, like me, just likes playing with trippy stuff online, stop reading now and click the link. Created by Australian former Google UI […]
Australian scientists have just successfully resurrected the gastric-brooding frog. Native to the Australian rainforest — until it became extinct in 1983 — it was best known for the fact that it gave birth through its mouth. It was killed off by a combination of disease, habitat loss, and parasites — all non-human-related causes. Phew. At […]
After the public trial and imprisonment of Pussy Riot, two of the activists are currently serving two years in some of the most dangerous and notoriously decrepit prison work camps in Russia… for 40 seconds of dancing in a church. According to activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s husband Peter Verzilov, Tolokonnikova spends eight hours a day sewing these outfits. Things weren’t exactly cool […]
Every year since 1981, a parade of elephants has walked through the Midtown tunnel from Queens to Manhattan before slowly traversing 34th street and entering Madison Square Garden for the start of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus. It’s a spectacle that brings out a childlike sense of wonder in some and disgust […]
Hacker Andrew Auernheimer, a.k.a. “Weev,” was sentenced to 41 months in prison today for his role in accessing AT&T’s website and aggregating email addresses and data from around 100,000 iPad users, then publicizing the hole in AT&T’s security system. The last tweet Auernheimer sent before being sentenced was an apparent display of indifference. No matter […]
Did you ever want to know the biggest causes of death in the 20th century, but from an infographic complete with cheerful colors? Information Is Beautiful has you covered. With clean, peppy design, you’ll almost forget you’re looking at the statistics behind millions of deaths. View a full-size version here. […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Organ Armani explains his meta, Facebook-centric, short-term-nostalgia-heavy Gallery Online project — specifically “No Net Today, My Love Has Gone Away.” i’ve been doing a lot of reading. on facebook. on my phone. i started out my current project from […]
Just when we thought the payphone was a silly, useless antiquity, the City of New York has introduced a sleek new communication game-changer. New Yorkers, meet NYFi, the winner of the Reinvent Payphone Design Challenge. Chosen by Facebook voters from a number of space-agey design proposals, the NYFi is not just a public phone, but […]
In an effort to combat fake IDs, New York State will issue a new driver license beginning July of this year. The new cards will be made of hard polycarbonate (as opposed to the old soft, bendable make) and feature a black-and white photo. According to state officials, the IDs be “virtually impossible to forge,” […]
OH MY GOD THIS SKULL HAS BOOBS IN IT SHIELD YOUR INNOCENT EYES EVERYBODY. ArtInfo reports that the blue-chip Saatchi Gallery has been censored by Facebook when the Salvador Dalí x Philippe Halsman’s 1951 classic Voluptas Mors was removed for being “offensive” because OH MY GOD BOOBS BOOBS AND BUTTS IN ART THIS IS TERRIBLE. “We never […]
