Film Biz Recycling specializes in selling and renting all manner of entertainment industry artifacts. If you’ve ever wondered where to get anything from old vending machines to vintage coffins to a giant Legends of the Hidden Temple–style stone head, this is the place to go (the store is open to both film industry professionals and the […]
Ever wonder what it takes to rule Twitter? A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have reduced the art of increasing your followers to a simple science. After studying 500 different (non-celebrity) Twitter accounts over a period of fifteen months, they concluded that the most popular Twitters are, most importantly, those that […]
A couple weeks ago, science informed us that we shared traits with goddamn rat-things. (Radiolab is being a little more diplomatic and calling the creature “shrew-like,” but let’s be real, it’s a goddamn rat.) Now, Radiolab and the American Museum of Natural History are asking us to think of a good name for this ancestor […]
It’s curious when people find a joke so offensive their immediate reaction is to discuss it in detail with as many people as possible. Some would say that this is counterproductive, like buying a Dixie Chicks CD in order to smash it in front of news cameras. However without bemoaning the transgression to your sensibility […]
A study by the Cardiff University Otter Project and the Chemicals, Health, and Environment Monitoring Trust shows a strong correlation between pollutants and hormone-disrupting chemicals in otters’ ecosystem and gradually shrinking penis sizes in the males of the species. And because chemicals that effect one mammal often effect other’s, it’s possible that those same chemicals may […]
The grotesque beauty of humans and other animals has long been a central theme of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s work. For The Carrier, a piece currently on display as part of Haunch of Venison’s “How to Tell the Future From the Past” exhibition, lies somewhere between the realms of human, ape, and alien. “This exhibition examines the […]
Director Robert Kolodny created the short film Fly on Out, which uses a Phantom high speed camera to gorgeously syrupy slow-mo effect. The film tells a tale of what happens when one kid steals a bird, and shows an everyday slice of life for a whole cast of Bed-Stuy’s characters as well (most of the film’s players are […]
The Wildlife Conservation Society announced it will partially reopen Coney Island’s New York Aquarium this spring, after it was shuttered in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Though there’s no word on when exactly the public will get to hang out with him, but the conservation society wants us to know that Mitik, the semi-celebrity baby […]
A community group called Town Square Inc. has visions of a museum to rival Manhattan’s grandest institutions on the waterfront of Williamsburg or Greenpoint. In their eyes, the Brooklyn Science and Art Museum would “[merge] the abstract pursuit of aesthetics with the concrete study of the natural world,” according to the Brooklyn Paper. “We want this to be […]
Murphy, Manhattan. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
