Good news for the 9.4% of New Yorkers who are currently jobless: The New York City Council passed a bill yesterday that will prohibit companies from discriminating against unemployed applicants. Which means, in theory, that frustrated job-seekers will no longer be trapped in the vicious, paradoxical cycle of needing to have a job in order […]
Just when we thought it was safe to assume that the NYPD’s decidedly unconstitutional Stop-and-Frisk policy might be on its way out, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced a major development yesterday: New York City, meet Scan-and-Frisk. A new scanning device– which detects terahertz, a heat energy naturally emitted by humans– is to be deployed by our […]
“قلب, as far as I know, is the first programming language that’s also a conceptual art piece,” says Ramsey Nasser, computer scientist and a fellow at New York’s Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. He can’t read the Russian hacker forums or the Chinese Twitter accounts buzzing about قلب (“alb”, “heart”), but he shows us how his terminal can understand Arabic calligraphy. It’s […]
To commemorate Sundance 2013, the film festival’s organizers commissioned designer Todd Oldham to create an illustrated book that gives an A to Z history of the storied institution: A is for auteurs Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Altman, F is for Flirting with Disaster, the breakout film from Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell, and […]
Manhattan is a notoriously expensive place to stay. A mediocre hotel costs anywhere from $150 to $250, but for the strong of heart, there are other options… much cheaper options. Last week, ANIMAL fanned out across the city and each of us spent a night in the lowest priced lodging we could find, whether that […]
Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Disasterpeace and in all likelihood, many other musicians have been hiding images in their songs for years. These Easter eggs can be found using something called a spectrograph, an application or instrument that creates visual renderings of audio signals. Other programs out there, like this one, or this one, do […]
Could you ever imagine a four year-old stealing a bag of weed? Would one even know what it was, or what to do with it? Hugo Encarnacion thought so. The Bronx man threatened his niece after coming to the conclusion that she stole four bags of his weed. We know this because Hugo’s sister came home […]
Only a damned cretin would deny the colossal impact that the late Allen Ginsberg had on the 20th century literary world. His divinely manic, sometimes-drug-fueled rants, punctuated by themes of sexual liberation, gritty urban romanticism and countercultural activism came to define the Beat Generation. And then James Franco played him in Howl. His aptitude as a […]
Wolfgang Laib’s much anticipated Pollen From Hazelnut has finally been installed in the atrium of the Museum of Modren Art. That’s 18 jars of bright yellow hazelnut pollen laid out on a platform, elevated six inches from the atrium floor. ArtInfo’s Ben Davis highlights the artwork’s post-minimalism with its Eastern philosophy influence and points out that it is […]
As you probably already know, the weather has been ungodly cold in New York this week. According to the Weather Channel, it’s 15 degrees Fahrenheit in Brooklyn at the time of this writing, and feels like 3 with wind chill factored in. And while these temperatures are difficult for anyone to bear, for many residents of the […]
