There are some very old, very beautiful buildings in Manhattan. Over time, brand name businesses have moved in. The contrast is visually jarring. Sometimes, it’s even funny. Here are a few of our favorites. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
These babies are more prepared for the future than your babies. Those cooling folds in the skull will come in handy when global warming get worse. The extra puffy cheeks increase the “absorption of food, drugs and caffeine.” The sharp nose? Aerodynamic. The bloody dangling cluster of nerves where a toe should be? Um… Not sure about […]
Japanese artists So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi created the above robot, which randomly creates artwork by moving back and forth while spraying paint at a wall. Designboom explains how the contraption works: The chaotic artwork is achieved through a single automated arm provisioned with a rotary encoder attached to the fulcrum of the pendulum. as the […]
The New York City medical examiner’s office, which handles forensic investigation of crime scenes, announced yesterday it had failed to send critical DNA samples from crime scenes to a state database. The office’s deputy director of quality assurance has been fired, and the forensic biology director has been suspended over the incident. Sending DNA samples to […]
Melvin, Brooklyn Heights. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Times Square in the 1900’s was not poppin’ at all. (Photo: AH David Archive/Flickr) […]
What do The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The 400 Blows, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Mystic River, and Blade 2 all have in common? No, smart ass, not the fact that they are all fictional works filmed in live-action. Well, fine, besides that. The answer: graffiti. Thanks to this awesome Tumblr, you can […]
Bruxelles5, a Belgian photographer who apparently goes only by his Twitter handle, took the above aerial photos of the tulip fields of Amsterdam. From above, the individual flowers dissolve into beautifully flat fields of color that evoke television test patterns. The photos were taken in Anna Paulowna, a municipality in the Netherlands. Check them out, and […]
The anti-7-Eleven subsection of the East Village has made their next move in the fight against Pringle-ization. A group of East Villagers is planning a tour on Saturday to go visit a number of bodegas and local shops in the area in order to learn more about the store owners (and presumably buy things) in […]
In three years, Beijing will have 6 million cars on the road. Pollution levels some days already reach what the New York Times has called in highly technical terms, “crazy bad.” Beijing-based artist Matt Hope has used some basic mechanical engineering skills and a number of recycled materials — an old fighter pilot mask and […]
