In Colorado, where it’s legal to possess weed for recreational use but still a crime to sell it, one former NASA scientist is teaching enterprising smokers how to grow their own perfectly legal bud at home. The name of his cannabis classroom: HASH (High Altitude School of Hydroponics). Dale J. Chamberlain cut his teeth designing and building […]
City Council passed a resolution yesterday calling for the city of New York to “acknowledge the years of suffering of all those involved in the Central Park jogger case,” including five men whose convictions were overturned, and the assaulted jogger herself. The decision, sponsored by councilman Charles Barron, comes after a lawsuit from the convicted […]
Estelle, Greenpoint. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Behold tomorrow’s stop-and-friskers today. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
No, you do not piss on your iPhone. Mumbai-based innovator Myshkin Ingawale, who previously invented a needle-less hemoglobin testing system, brings us Ucheck, the world’s first visual urine testing app. To use Uchek, all you need to do is pee in a cup, insert a dipstick into said cup, and snap a photo of the […]
Brooklyn-based writer Josh Kurp and photographer Nadia Chaudhury set off recently on an independent “Breaking Bad” tour of Albuquerque, New Mexico, which has a lot going for it, like its meth, and a major TV show shot on-location there about its meth. #Meth. Walter White’s house, Heisenberg’s hat, Los Pollos Hermanos, Skyler’s storage unit, the […]
Here’s a mini-doc featuring Marcin Lodyga and Vladimir Umanets, the notorious duo of IRL art trolls, artists, philosophers, vandals, Yellowists. It features the Yellowists explaining Yellowism and screenshots of all the press hate/bemusement. Last year, Umanets was sentenced to two years in prison for writing his name on a Rothko at Tate Modern, turning it into […]
New York will be joining Texas, Hawaii, Washington and California when the Public School Athletic League establishes a wrestling league entirely for girls, beginning in March and ending with a tournament in May. The plan is to have 16 teams for around 300 girls, spanning from all five boroughs. There will be 12 weight classes. […]
Never has coulrophobia been realized so perfectly than with this glossy, sinister, saturated clown bondage-fest titled Paradise The Club. This gloriously grotesque series by Amsterdam-based photographer Erwin Olaf is one of the more figurative interpretations of the theme behind the current issue of Foam Magazine, “#33/Trip” — “about the sense of being in transit, in a place or […]
Submergence, a transfixing immersive installation of wired-up LEDs is the latest iteration of Ocean of Light, an ongoing project expanding digital visual media into the third dimension by the decade-old art and research collective Squidsoap. The work, sometimes referred to as a low-res “volumetric visualization” was on view in Norway earlier this month and reminds […]
