Humans have been indulging in alcohol since the dawn of civilization. No, wait. Earlier! Turns out that humanity’s taste for booze dates back 10 million years, to a common evolutionary ancestor that we share with chimpanzees and gorillas. This is what scientists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, FL have concluded based on […]
Micro Air Vehicles are the hot new drone for 2013, or whenever they’re actually created by the Air Force. In this simulated video, MAVs look like horrifying flying things that are “unobtrusive, pervasive, lethal.” These tightly controlled drones can spy, scan and shoot someone in the head. And these MAVs would range from the size […]
The Santa Eulalia — an austere, barren-walled, neo-Romanesque church located outside Barcelona — recently had its main dome re-done. Father Ramon Borr commissioned graffiti writers RUDI and HOUSE to add some color and novelty, an idea that came to him last year “surfing the web,” he explains to Gerry Hadden. Even though the press is […]
Established Seattle artist Charles Krafft has been quite successful in the controversial-kitschy ceramics genre. His work has been widely exhibited, collected and Tumblr’ed. He collaborated with Mike Leavitt on Pitchfork Pals — a series of Hitler, Manson and Kim Jong Il teapots. Very popular stuff. Oh, and he’s a bit of a white supremacist. Seattle’s The Stranger refers to some Facebook […]
Sadly, it may be too late to have Sonic Youth play your birthday party but you still may have a chance with one of its leading members. The press release for the debut album by Thurston Moore’s new post-quasi-breakup band, Chelsea Light Moving, includes this interesting tidbit: “The band is ready to detonate any birthday […]
There’s something oddly poetic about the complexities of governmental bureaucracy and law–just ask David Foster Wallace and Terry Gilliam. German information designer Oliver Bieh-Zimmert has taken that idea to its logical, literal conclusion with his Network of the German Civil Code, an installation piece that puts the titular country’s notoriously complicated Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch ca. 1896 up on the wall (all 2,385 […]
Though the potential consumer and commercial applications for 3D-Printing get wider every day, its high cost and high-tech wonkiness has prohibited it from becoming a household item. The 3Doodler, a handheld 3D-printing device that’s currently funding on Kickstarter, may change all that. “Everyone knows how to use a pen,” says Peter Dilworth, one of 3Doodler’s […]
Because rat-infested cars are apparently something you have to worry about now: according to the Brooklyn Paper, Kings County repair shops and exterminators are seeing an uptick in cars that won’t start due to rodents’ nests under the hood. A manager at Bay Ridge Lexus, for example, said he’s seen five ratmobiles so far this winter. “You could […]
Roxie, Union Square. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Sunlight shines onto graffiti in the Freedom Tunnel. (Photo: sabeth718/Flickr) […]
