Engineers at FliteTest have mounted a medium format Lomography camera onto a remote-controlled tricopter, finally bring all the fuzzy, light-leaky, vignetting and grain that super secret spy footage has been begging for. The “Lomo-Copter” comes equipped with another first-person-view camera mounted to the Lomo-cam’s view finder, transmitting real-time footage to the drone operator’s stylish goggles. […]
An Italian eBay user going by *videogames.museum* has placed his collection of 6,850 video games, 330 consoles, 220 controllers and 185 accessories up for auction. The price? A cool $550,000. While it may not surprise you to learn that Mr. *museum* has accrued exactly zero bids on the lot thus far, let’s see what he’s packing […]
Back when I was a kid growing up on Long Island, we had snowstorms all the time, but we didn’t really make a big deal out of it. It just meant that we could go sledding at Captree Hill, throw snowballs at cars, or shovel people’s driveways to make money for weed. Fast forward a […]
This is Jeff Gipe’s contribution to “Single Fare 3.” Eye-catching, isn’t it? Following the grand success of “Single Fare” and “Single Fare 2,” Michael Kagan, Jean-Pierre Roy and RH Gallery are about to unveil yet another exhibit of New York City MTA MetroCards reincarnated as art. Details here. They’re amazing. Seriously. They look so good. You should go. “Single Fare,” Various […]
Last night just before closing time at the Lens branch of the Louvre Museum, a 28-year-old woman with a “French-sounding name” transformed defaced Eugene Delacroix’s epic 1830 painting Liberty Leading The People. Either an ardent supporter of King Charles X of France, or more likely a 9/11 Truther, the woman scralled “AE911,” shorthand for “Architects […]
Yesterday, the 3D-printed gun operation Defense Distributed –whom ANIMAL profiled recently— posted the above video, which shows an assault rifle emptying 30 rounds from a new 3D-printed magazine design. The magazine’s name? The “Cuomo” after the New York governor, who recently signed a bill banning all magazines larger than seven rounds. “He [Cuomo] wants to […]
New York streets are stocked with food carts. But have you looked at the food? Like, really looked at the food? Here are some close-ups of various NYC street foods, taken with my DSLR hacked with a Pentax 25mm 1.4 TV lens usually used for 1″ CCTV security cameras. Bon appétit. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the […]
A hacker only known as “Guccifer” broke into several email accounts belonging to members and friends of the Bush family. Guccifer was able to retrieve some personal photos, including two of some original George W. Bush paintings. It’s not exactly news that Bush paints, but let’s analyze these two new works. Both appear to be […]
After disparaging rats yesterday, it seems that vitriol was unwise. Today, science just said that humans share some anatomical qualities to a creature that was the size of a rat. We might as well just call ourselves rat people now. After six years of sifting through mammalian family trees, scientists believe that a common ancestor […]
From the people who brought you that slow-mo snowman snuff film last month comes this, another seasonally-appropriate documentation of carnage. Watch as a mysterious masked lady takes axes, arrows, and explosives to a variety of Valentine’s Day paraphernalia, and try not to let it break your little heart. […]
