Singaporean artist Sookoon Ang created Your Love is Like a Chunk of Gold, the above series of wonderfully decaying hunks of bread, using ammonium phosphate, which crystallizes when phosphoric acid is added to ammonia, and is often used in fertilizers. There’s something interesting about the way the geometric crystals are both elegant and ugly, inspiring awe […]
Here comes Henry Hill and he’s going to beat you, Google Street View truck dude! This Google Street Scene tumblr has one the best movie net art collections you’ll ever see. The shot-scouting and Photoshop wizardry looks damn meticulous. Blue Velvet house? Check. Godfather ambush spot? Check. Unbridled cinephiliac excitement? Checkity-check-check. “The address is approximate.” Well, no shit. […]
The fight against Pringle-ization continues. Last night, more East Villagers braved the cold and marked the streets with their disdain for 7-Eleven’s plan to open stores in their area, drawing customers away from local businesses. EV Grieve said that a BBC crew was present, filming for a future segment. Check out more of the pictures […]
There’s an old axiom that says warm weather tends to drive more violent crime. It makes sense–people are out of their houses and interacting with each other more often, and it only follows that some of those interactions are going to be violent. This week in New York City, with its sub-20-degree temperatures, may have […]
The latest in a string of unlikely friendships for Chris Christie–Booker, Springsteen, Obama–is none other than Mr. Facebook himself, Mark Zuckerberg. In Zuckerberg’s first step into national politics, he’ll host a fundraiser for the outspoken New Jersey governor in his Palo Alto home next month. Zuckerberg, who recently donated $100 million to Newark public schools, […]
There’s recently been a grassroots push for more service on Brooklyn’s oft-maligned G train. While advocates say the service is too infrequent for a crucial link between north and south Brooklyn, the MTA maintains that ridership isn’t high enough for them to increase service. But the only reason ridership is so low, activists counter, is […]
Vicky, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
This photo of ice forming on a Manhattan water tower nicely articulates just how fucking freezing it is in the city right now. (Photo: Jason Kottke) […]
The first clip from Jobs has been released featuring Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak and Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs arguing in a obvious this-dialogue-means-something scene. I know Kutcher and a young Jobs look uncannily alike, but out of context, this clip merely looks like Ashton Kutcher talking about computer possibilities. Oh yeah, don’t forget […]
“Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde,” currently on view at MoMA, goes to show that Modernism was plural — not a Western aesthetic exported across the world, but concurrent post-war global movements centralized in various urban “incubators” — an era of Modernisms. Towards the end of the exhibition in the final gallery opposite masterful photographs by Daido Moriyama […]
