Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson debuted DEFCAD, his open-source, unregulated search engine for 3d printing designs, at SXSW this week. Positioning itself as a renegade alternative to MakerBot’s Thingiverse, DEFCAD promises no takedowns of any designs and a focus on the “important things” that big business has an interest in regulating: drugs, medical devices, and […]
Here’s some glorious raw footage of Los Angelopes, LA Bike Cult and Tren Way bicycle gangs pedal-driven recreational vehicle enthusiast collectives riding on the a mini-velodrome THAT’S ON FIRE AND BURSTING APART. Nice flamethrower action. That Black Sabbath track is fitting. It’s not meant to be a music video and this Richie Trimble person says this raw […]
Bronx Soles, an exhibit on display this month at BronxArtSpace, features the work of artists Osjua A. Newton, Sean Paul Gallegos, Andre Trenier and Jason Shaw. The sneaker-themed exhibit will feature paintings, sculptures, photography and art directly on kicks. Linda Cunningham, the curator, feels that the message of Bronx Soles is the possibilites of what […]
Los Angeles-born artist James Turrell, known for visceral immersive installations like Bindu Shards, works primarily with light and “indeterminate space” to alter his audience’s visual perception and consciousness. Towards that end, since 1974, Turrell has been developing a monumental land art project known as Roden Crater, a three-mile-wide extinct volcano near Flagstaff, Arizona. One of […]
While Lena Dunham and piggie poop balls sat around wearing Google Glass and discussing the merits of 3D-printing your own Beyonce, these three drones danced a sad, sad “Harlem Shake” in some empty lot at SXSW. This is what we’ve created, people. […]
On the last day of the Moving Image Contemporary Art Fair, project The Shortest Video Art Ever Sold! #SVAES sold a Vine. You may have read in the Guardian about it today, lulz. Yesterday, the transaction was made by Magda Sawon at the Postmasters Gallery. Tits on Tits on Ikea (2013), Angela Washko, #SVAES. Collection of Myriam Vanneschi vine.co/v/bdugbvxYtYO — […]
On paper, yesterday’s police budget hearing should have been a routine affair: commissioner Ray Kelly outlines the department’s yearly budget to City Council, and council members have a chance to react and ask questions. Several members, however, seized the opportunity to lob thinly masked and totally open critiques of NYPD tactics at the department boss. […]
One night after a memorial for a teenager killed by two undercover NYPD officers erupted into a protest described by one city councilman as a riot, New Yorkers gathered in East Flatbush for another, more peaceful vigil. Upwards of 150 people gathered to remember 16-year-old Kimani Gray, and while there was some tension with the […]
Nigel, Bushwick. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Federico Solmi’s Chinese Tyrant B/W 100$ Bill is on view at the Postmasters Gallery through Saturday. IT’S ALIVE! (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
