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March 14, 2013 Samer Kalaf

Fun news for Twitter users: Line breaks are now recognized in your tweets. This is cool but will also be a total catastrophe for the first week or so while everyone’s getting adjusted. For now, though, try doing these fun things: – Flex your humor muscles with some programming jokes -Organize your thoughts into paragraphs […]

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Andy Cush

Just got a brand-new piece of glitchy furniture and need some knick-knacks to put on top? You could do a lot worse than these pixilated animal sculptures from artist Shawn Smith. Smith, as you may have guessed, is interested in how computers mitigate our perception of the natural world. Everything’s made of wood blocks, to […]

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Marina Galperina

This seems like a very good time to buy vacuum sealed JAMES FRANCO man of the world cover with all BUSHWICK foods including homemade chocolate chip cookies and local anchovies. It’s a ready-made and it’s only $75.  Artist Brad Troemel started selling sculptural objects on his BSTJ Etsy store as a project for group blog The Jogging awhile ago, but yeah, Spring Breakers, so […]

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Andy Cush

Last night in East Flatbush, about 200 people attended a candlelight vigil for Kimani Gray, the 16-year-old shot and killed by police Saturday after allegedly pointing a loaded gun at two officers. When half that group marched to the 67th Precinct Stationhouse to protest, the proceedings once again became chaotic and violent, with 45 people […]

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Marina Galperina

Is this the end of an era or a bluff by the management? The allegedly notorious McKibbin Lofts are known for three things: the Montrose and Morgan L stop proximity (ahem ahem ahem), the packed ‘n’ stacked quasi-mini-cubicle bed-“rooms” in inexplicable shapes and… the parties. Also, that one time the FBI raided McKibbin in 2011 […]

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Allison Bagg

Sanda, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]

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March 13, 2013 Marina Galperina

Speaking of Spring Breakers‘ ATL Twins, I guess we hung out with them in some karaoke bar after that Keith Haring sex toy release party last year or something like that. It was weird. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Marina Galperina

“I wanted to create a game that touched infinity,” Jonathan Minard explains. We’re in the dark lower level of 319 Scholes at the opening Art Hack Day: God Mode. To his right, bio-glitch artists in lab-coats explain How to be Anonymous in the Age of the DNA Surveillance. Behind him, visitors wave their arms, commanding mountains to morph […]

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Julia Dawidowicz

Earlier today, before celebratory white smoke started billowing out of important chimneys for the new Pope, the Vatican was enveloped in a lovely pink haze that looked a lot like cotton candy. Pretty as it was, the pink smoke signified a protest against something ugly: the Catholic Church’s refusal to ordain female priests. Members of […]

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Julia Dawidowicz

This is probably the most amazing, psychologically-telling infographic you will ever see. About porn. Porn MD presents: The top porn-related searches over a 6 month time period, broken down by country and, in the US, by state. We already knew that everyone loved porn, but who knew that Syrians were so turned on by “feet […]

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