Articles tagged "new york"

And by “school,” I mean “The Real World" set in a "Jurassic Park" bunker for music nerds with a fridge full of Red Bull in every room.

The suckling pig roasting on a spit in the sculpture park outside the fair next to a circle of hip high rubber tongue sculptures was, as it turns out, not just for show.

A chat with John Kirsch, partner and co-founder of the e-waste recycling company, 4th Bin.

For a few weeks there, New York City was thinking earnestly about trash.

Remodeling the city's soundscape with help from an Xbox Kinect camera, MAX/MSP, and creative listening.

The six-second video, 'Tits on Tits on Ikea,' by Artist Angela Washko, sold for $200.

If you live in a city on the East Coast, you just lived through the hottest year on the books.

Of all the tributes to the victims of 9/11 – from the small and personal to the national and epic – few will prove as enduring as the one created by JPL and employees at Honeybee Robotics: two small pieces of the World Trade Center towers currently s…

New York’s 2012 Olympic Games kicked off with a series of runners hoisting the flaming torch high above their heads, pursued by excited New Yorkers, surrounded by spectators and a police escort with horses, limned by hot-dog vendors and honking cabs…

All these machines whirring around us have magical hearts pumping electricity through them, thanks to the will of God. If only this were so. As things stand in reality, electricity comes from generators and power plants where little men in pointy hat…

When urban planners were trying to turn New York's Roosevelt Island from a haven for the disabled and the mentally ill into a liveable city, they got "utopian":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island#Architecture. Lying beneath their plans was

You know what is the worst thing? Nicotine withdrawal. Actually, it’s definitely not "the worst thing," but it is the worst thing that is happening to me right now. When you withdraw from nicotine, your brain gets all fuzzy, and the more you try to c…

h3. A Day at the Anti-Web Rally In the future, the great Internet rally of 2012 might be seen as the prescient start of a global movement to grapple with the impact of this amazing and beguiling series of tubes: addiction, distraction, stupidity,

All those cannibals out there who have been occupying newsfeeds and haunting the nightmares of the phagophobic are terrifying, sure, but nothing chills the bones greater than a good old fashioned Orwellian hellscape. Zombie-types, while revolting and…

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…

NASA-loving artist Tom Sachs’ new show at the Park Avenue Armory will see a team of thirteen attractive astronauts simulating a mission to the red planet using low-fi bricolaged components manufactured by the artist to take them to the surface and ba…

This video, like the fascinating NOVA documentary, from which it is "adapted":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec11/skyscrapers_09-06.html (see below), is certified truther-free.

Among those gloating over the demise of the Space Shuttle are none other than scientists, who argue that the costly and overly complex program was sapping valuable resources from real space science and sending them up on "toilet repair missions":http…

h5. _Tony Ard, president of the Gracie Point Community Council, a group trying to keep trash out of the Upper East Side._ In New York, as everywhere else, one neighborhood's trash is often another neighborhood's terror. And that other neighborhood…

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…

Richard Nash, the publisher, answered the door of his apartment in Clinton Hill carrying a big cardboard box filled with paperback books. “You know,” he said, holding the door open for me with his foot, “I don’t think most tech start-ups also hav…

At around nearly the same time every year, rumors start to crop up that Chinatown Fair, the last beloved vestige of New York City's video arcade golden age, will soon be facing its final days. It happened again last week when tweets and blog posts re…