Articles tagged "brooklyn"

Developers want to turn the dilapidated Domino Sugar Factory into a futuristic riverside development that looks like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel.

"Holo C" (directed by CGI shaman Theo Anthony) preserves the coiled energy of a trance build in amber—a tactile synth riff slips through a frictionless environment while Martine's falsetto rides a fluid quasi-dembow groove.

What does this video really think about GIFs?

“I used to be a nobody,” says a voice. “Until I discovered the internet.”

Divya's apartment is an incredible voyage into the absurd where chicks have two heads and baby deers never wake up.

I thought I’d stroll around Brooklyn to see how people are getting ready for Sandy. The short answer is that this afternoon, people were dragging their kids around Prospect Heights like “superstorms” are just a state of mind.

Jay-Z is currently in the middle of eight sold-out shows at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, home to the Brooklyn Nets, of which he owns a very small stake. It’s the perfect example of why he’s such a highly regarded mogul: He has an unrivaled ab…

"This is a .biz site, I remind you," Will Zweigart yelled last night over a pounding, over-modulated Kanye West track. "It's not .org! Tonight is about .biz!" Zweigart wasn't angry, but he seemed slightly -- _very_ slightly -- indignant. He was ta…

Of course _you_ know what the Higgs boson is -- it's the theorized particle that composes the energy field that endows every other particle with mass. It's the particle that makes the universe possible, let's nature construct things, like humans, or

Some dude built a miniature model of a Brooklyn street corner on that Brooklyn street corner.

When it opened 129 years ago today, the Brooklyn Bridge was the answer to a geographical problem that should be familiar to any youngster living in New York today: the affordable housing was in Brooklyn, but the jobs were in Manhattan. And the answer…

Anyone with even a few years of Brooklyn residency under their belt has undoubtedly seen how rapidly the borough is changing. Warehouses that were once populated with twirling gypsies, DIY beer distillers and nihilistic bike punks now greet visitors

Tucked between a bodega and a bar in a former industrial neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, an unassuming door leads to New York’s newest, most radical punk scene. But the slouched-over kids and bearded scenesters who slide into th…

Like the chiptune video game-inspired music it celebrates, the Blip Festival is growing up fast. "This year's installment":http://blipfestival.org/2011/ launches tonight, with music by Anamanaguchi, No Carrier, and our very own games correspondent "J…

Tomorrow on Motherboard, we're debuting the first episode of a new series we call Labspace, in which we pay a visit to a scientist, artist, maker or doer in their natural habitat. Episode one: a peek inside the circus-like junkyard workshop of Brookl…

A few summers ago, at a DIY repair-off called "Get Yr Fix":http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/fixers-collective-get-yr-fix-iron-chef-for-broken-things.php, I watched as ragtag teams battled each other and the clock to breathe new life into all m…

There's no doubt Daniel Lopatin, the quiet powerhouse behind the psychedelic cosmic synth project Oneohtrix Point Never, has a strong connection with his keyboards. Like his Roland Juno-60, nicknamed "Judy." She may not be the best in the world, but

Founded by a handful of friends who wanted a place to tinker with electronics and meet like-minded hackers for good, NYC Resistor has blossomed into one of the country's most influential hackerspaces. On top of public workshops on topics ranging from…