While perusing Google Maps Street View for an unrelated purpose, we came across this little oddity: when looking at the building at 7427 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge while “standing” on 5th, you see the Chase bank that currently occupies the space. When moving your vantage point to Bay Ridge Parkway, however, you’re treated to […]
Drivers looking to park their vehicles in New York City won’t need a local fixer or translator to figure out what the regulations are because the DOT finally made a good sign-related decision. All of the parking signs have been redesigned, making them easier to read and more importantly, to comprehend. The newly formatted signs […]
Architecture, like graphic design, is an art form that nearly every American interacts with on a daily basis, but few outside of understand on any mechanical or historical level. Animators Andrea Stinga and Federico Gonzalez hope to remedy that–at least the history part–with the above animation, The ABCs of Architects. Each letter gets an important architect, his or […]
The parents among you might consider this the next time you’re looking for that killer gift for your small child: CrayonCreatures, a service from Spanish designer Bernat Cuni, turns kids’ drawings into multicolored, 3D-printed sculptures. For the mere price of $150 (plus $20 shipping if you’re in the states) your child’s animals, monsters, and various […]
Straphangers riding a Q train in Brooklyn were recently privy to an entertainment spectacle unlike any other. In addition to sitting front row for a breakdance performance, riders were exposed to an ol’ timey choreographic routine from the Emerald Isle. Explains comedian Tyler Fisher in an email: Below is a video where I joined a […]
French street artist INVADER stars in this video for “Analog Trip” for ToBy Screamer, directed by Raphael Haddad (Extermitent Production). He really, really stars. Watch him move through the streets of Paris, putting up his signature video game bit mosaics with elegant swiftness. Just shh… sit there and watch, watch. Must be hard enough to do this without a […]
Usually, we have no problem giving self-proclaimed political artist Michael D’Antuono criticism for dramatic painterly exaggerations of news stories, from the President holding Osama Bin Laden’s decapitated, bullet-ridden head over a cliff to Trayvon Martin as a little child about to be shot by a KKK cop. While the critic in me should be going hard on his melodramatic display of blood-splattered […]
A major victory in the fight against the the NYPD’s discriminatory stop-and-frisk tactics was won today, as a judge ordered the department to halt a practice that allowed officers to patrol and make arrests in certain privately-owned Bronx apartment buildings. The practice, known as Operation Clean Halls, has led to several trespassing stops for residents […]
This one is almost too meta: the poet laureate of nighthawks and renegades everywhere teams up with Captain Jack Sparrow’s father to record a cover of a 150-year old sea shanty. But it’s real! And it’s awesome. Frequent collaborators Tom Waits and Keith Richards recently recorded a stirring version of “Shenandoah,” a beautiful mid-19th-Century folk song. […]
Cab Roulette is a recurring series in which comedian Dan Speiser interviews cab drivers about their experiences on the job. This week, Dan meets Chowdhry, a farmer from Pakistan who puts a fare-dodger on blast for the $15 he was never paid. Episode 1: Abdulai Episode 2: Tony Episode 3: Adama Episode 4: Santos Episode […]
