How about we stop dragging gigantic mammals out of the ocean, sticking them into glorified bathtubs and humiliating with them into doing dumb trick for scraps while sweaty crowds of gawkers cheer on? Oh, no? In 2010, Sea World’s Tilikum a 12,000-pound “performing whale” caused the deaths of three people including a highly skilled orca […]
This morning, we told you Mayor Bloomberg was set to unveil the winner of a contest to design a 300-square-foot apartment that would serve as a small-centric pilot for the future of NYC living. The winners, Monadnock Development, Actors Fund Housing Development Corp, and nARCHITECTS, presented the renderings above. They’ll be building 55 apartments in a […]
“Oyster-tecture,” a 16-foot digital collage by environmental architect Kate Orff and the firm SCAPE, envisions New York harbor as part marshland, part mollusk paradise. The work, among those on view in a new group show of 10 extradisciplinary artists and cultural innovators at the National Academy Museum, proposes an inexpensive, efficient method for bracing against […]
When 4chan exposed flaws in certain TRENDnet security systems that allowed hackers to snoop on private camera feeds last year, the whole process felt too wonky to be exploited by your average IRL citizen–unless your neighbor was a /b/tard or redditor, he probably wouldn’t be spying on you. A year later, TRENDnet has issued a […]
Meet February. She’s a snarling, furry, five-year-old feline whose main purpose in life is to hunt and kill mice at a bodega for its owner, Bharat Patel. And she’s also a real jerk to any dogs that have the unfortunate confrontation with her. So, if you visit K & B Inc. Candy Store on First Avenue, […]
The Washington Post took a huge detailed picture at President Obama’s inauguration yesterday, and they need your help to tag everyone in it. It’s the ultimate Facebook group party photo. The Post went ahead and started the process off by tagging the obvious important people (Obama, Biden, Beyoncé, etc.), but with only around 700 tagged […]
On Friday evening, ANIMAL and advocacy group Stamp Stampede took a projector-equipped van to the streets of Manhattan — as promised — and broadcasted propaganda to mark the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision. We kicked things off at Bowery and Houston and eventually made our way uptown to send a […]
After months of grueling marketing research, this Emmy-winning reality TV production company has officially concluded that “*** in the city” and “an ensemble of wise-beyond-their-years young ladies… living the dream in Hipster Brooklyn” would make some great reality television fodder! A radical concept, but so crazy, it just might work! So, was Girls not real enough for you? […]
Here are some cute and pithy illustrations from French artist Jean Jullien that reflect on our very internet daily lives. Ooh, depressing! Or maybe not. That all depends on whether you’ve made peace with the fact that you cuddle with your smartphone at night, one eye open for friend status update alerts, your existence justified solely by […]
By some unknown digital wizardry (Melodyne? An Echo Nest API?) a relatively anonymous digital artist has changed R.E.M.’s colossal “Losing My Religion” from dark and impressionistic to sunny and Smiths-y. The secret? Taking every minor note in the song and raising it by a half step (putting the song in its parallel major key, for […]
