Tag: nyc

Cat Jazz

new kinds of music: cat jazz, foreclosed house
book titles: spooky salad, giving up with style
exhibitions: history is written by the winners, but art history is written by losers
baby names: quinoa, keepsake

ice on the hudson & east river

NYSea

includes rowboaten, alphabet soup, middrown and lower flood tide.

Bjork at MOMA

an exhibit to look forward to

Always daring and experimental in both her sound and aesthetics, Björk has made a name for herself not only with her music, but her striking videos, costumes, and use of multimedia. The interdisciplinary artist will debut her first retrospective, simply titled Björk, on March 8 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Bushwick

this never gets old, see also Get the Fiji Water, Son

Building Cyborgs

In 2006, DARPA studied cockroaches as a robotics platform. They soon learned that cockroaches have a mind of their own, and will ignore implanted directions (via electrical stimuli) after ~30min. this makes them unsuitable for spy missions, but it triggered interest in the neurobiology community as a new model organism.

Cockroaches have a simple body plan, and have their processing spread around the body. With some basic surgery, a cockroach can be turned into a robot by attaching the antenna to current, you can make a cockroach go left/right

The first workshop for building your own cyborg was this weekend. my specimen didn’t pass final QC because i didn’t secure the antenna cables securely enough, and the cockroach disconnected 😦

Peak hipster?

A new luxury development called 15 Renwick in New York is giving built form to steampunk. That’s right, steampunk: that dark, Victoriana-obsessed cousin of Renaissance festivals and Star Trek conventions is now a theme for condos. I’m sorry to report that it gets worse: Steampunk is the entire pitch for the building.