Graffiti artists continue to graciously provide outdoor visuals in Bushwick for riders of the J/M trains. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Snapshots, portraits, landscapes — for about 175 years, most photographers have used the camera to depict what we can see. “But another tradition exists,” writes gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel: a parallel history in which photographers and other artists have attempted to describe by photographic means that which is not so readily seen: thought, time, ghosts, god, […]
To test just how clever Cleverbot really is, director Chris R. Wilson created a short film, co-written by the celebrated artificial intelligence platform and acted out by real humans. According to Wilson, he’d set up scenes for Cleverbot, then allow it to fill in the characters’ dialogue. The resulting film is as zany as should […]
Artist Jay Shells — who our readers know from putting up uncanny “subway etiquette,” telling the cops to clean up after their horses and gloriously punking Fox News — is getting married, yey! His proposal was perfectly appropriate: “RACHEL WILL YOU MARRY ME?” in five graffitied rooftops on the Upper East Side. “I was definitely going to paint the proposal […]
James Hetfield is a 49-year-old man who loves the word “yeah.” Loves it so much, according to one YouTube user, that he’s used it in nearly every song Metallica has written since 1991. So what does said YouTuber do? He makes a supercut, of course, featuring every instance of the word in the band’s catalog, […]
Last December, a 16-year old from Texas suffered multiple strokes, hallucinations, migraines and almost death. And the blame for all of these medical conditions? “Potpourri,” that shitty herbal blend that stupid kids are smoking and the media loves to describe as “synthetic marijuana.” The “potpourri” from a gas station almost cost Emily Bauer her life […]
I’M SORRY. But this is important. Behold: the laboratory feeding rituals of bed bugs — for science! About a decade ago, bed bugs reemerged onto the scene after a 40-year hiatus and researchers were all like, oh, snap! Time to start studying these suckers! In order to test pesticides and whatnot, labs far and wide began harvesting […]
Hacker/artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico take the private information you post online and free the virtual you from the “you” you. Face to Facebook, showing in New York for the first time this month, is a multimedia installation of 1,000,000 appropriated, or “stolen,” Facebook profile pictures matched up simply by facial expression on a custom […]
From supercut extraordinaire Harry Hanrahan, here’s today’s pippin’ fresh supercut, oh boy! It’s people getting hit by busses. And other vehicles. ‘Cause people on bad tv shows be steppin’ into traffic backwards. It’s all really funny. 12 and a half minutes of hilarious. Funny stuff. Ok, ok… The Buffy one is funny. “Any last words?” “Just one. Truck.” […]
In the spirit of promoting “geographic diversity,” NYU will not allow incoming freshmen to choose their roommates, starting with the 2013-14 class. In fact, they’re completely changing the method used to place first-year students. Rather than taking potential compatibility into account, the school’s new housing policy will match up classmates in the seven first-year residence […]
