As if regular cockroaches weren’t awful enough, a professor at University of California, Berkley has created the VELOCIRoACH, a six-legged cardboard robot modeled on roach anatomy that can run at 2.7 meters per second–26 times the length of its body–making it the second-fastest self-propelled robot on record. Check it out, skittering around disgustingly, in the […]
Pamela Geller has a history of running ugly, hateful anti-Muslim ads around the New York City subway system, and New Yorkers have a history of defacing, modifying, and otherwise beautifying them. Last month, the right-wing blogger unveiled a brand-new series of ads, featuring images of the burning Twin Towers next to passages from the Qur’an. […]
It’s “lipstick for the between the legs,” a chair-tub, a floating bed and Jacolby Satterwhite’s mother drew these “products” as part of her treatment for schizophrenia, the Gallerist explains. It’s all manifested inside a unhinged CGI world and paired with intimate family photographs. And so, the 26-year-old New York artist Jacolby Satterwhite makes a solo debut at the Monya Rowe Gallery. When I […]
At age 10, Willow Smith recorded the buoyant, world-beating pop-rap anthem “Whip My Hair.” Now, two years later, she’s already entered her serious-second-album phase with “Sugar and Spice,” a really sad song about not knowing who you are, which heavily samples Radiohead’s “Codex,” a really sad song about yearning for innocence (and probably also death?) […]
I know it’s unscience-like to gush over how trippy the Moon looks like in this visualisation of its gravitational field, measured by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL). I’ve been informed that only stoned teenagers giggle at the psychedelic visual coolness of fractals, so I can’t get too excited about this map of the most […]
Reports are coming in of a ferry accident at a downtown dock this morning. According to NBC News, the Sea Streak Ferry, which carries commuters from New Jersey, slammed into Pier 11 at South Street and Gouverneur Lane, injuring at least 17 people. FDNY and EMS are currently on the scene. (Photo: hustlecity/Tumblr) […]
Mississippi Congressman Steve Palazzo was one of the 67 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted “no” on a relatively small federal Sandy relief package last week. However, after visiting Staten Island and the Jersey Shore yesterday, he changed his tune, and vowed to support a larger aid bill when it is voted on […]
Tom, Rockefeller Center. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Many people are familiar with Jesus the carpenter, but what about Jesus the upholsterer? (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Following the footsteps of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel and other much-noted artists, Brooklyn-based collective FAILE has been recruited for to create original art for the New York City Ballet. Say what? They’re surprised too. Watch them digging through the art archives and talking excitedly at how they fit into the mix for the exhibit NYCB […]
