Smart thermometer keeps tabs on your community’s health status
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A thermometer measures temperature. Sure, but it can do so much more. New York-based Kinsa, which aims to create the world’s first real-time map of human health, has given the thermometer a complete overhaul with its Kinsa Smart Thermometer. The redesigned thermometer leverages on the connectivity of the smartphone to go beyond measuring your body [...]
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Pulse: Gorgeous light sculpture turns your heartbeat into art
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Have you ever been complimented on the beauty of your heartbeat? Probably not. But thanks to the creative people of Red Paper Heart, New Yorkers were offered the chance to put their inner beat on display. Pulse is a light installation that reacts to a single person’s heartbeat and creates a lovely light display.
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Posters inspired by classic quotes by Evan Robertson
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New York based graphic designer Evan Robertson has created posters inspired by his favourite quotes from literary geniuses such as Fitzgerald, T.S Eliot and Hemingway. Each time he came across a ‘little jewel’ of a sentence” he would ‘let the words be a springboard for an illustration’. He hopes to engage both the mind and [...]
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The Worst Room: a tumblr all about crappy NY housing
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Thinking about moving to New York? The Worst Room provides the antidote to TV’s spacious and beautiful apartments that normal people can afford. I’d like to see Friends re-set in some of these.
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Selfies plastered on the ground of Times Square
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Get ready New York, French artist JR has set out to take your photo and plaster it to the ground in Times Square. The project is called Inside Out and ran from April 22 to May 10. And how does JR get your photo? Don’t worry, it’s not some creepy spy cam thing. Instead, a truck [...]
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China vs Chinatown
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With her minimalistic China vs Chinatown split-panel graphic series, New York-based art director Mengwen Xiang views Chinatown as a stereotype of China, and contrasts the two against each other. It’s brilliant, subtle, wicked and makes for a quick educational crash course about the world’s most populated country.
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Outside: animated music video for new David Bronson single
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‘I knew I wanted to work with Johnerick as soon as I met him’, says New York-based singer-songwriter David Bronson about animator Johnerick Lawson and his contribution to the new music video for Bronson’s song Outside. Johnerick’s work is a creative mixture of animation techniques that compliments the song’s themes of inner reflection. ‘Who can [...]
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CIty Hall, the secret New York subway station
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We don’t know how, but somehow, somewhere in New York’s subway system, a secret City Hall subway station lurks. With its tall ceilings and brass fixtures, it looks positively majestic and grand. The station has been closed to the public since 1945 as it was deemed too unsafe for use, but apparently, commuters in the [...]
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Denimu makes life size news-stand made out of denim
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Check out the latest piece by Denimu (aka Ian Berry), a life sized installation of a New York news-stand. Made out of layers of cut up blue jeans, the stand displays dozens of magazines, newspapers, coke cans and confectionery. It is currently showing at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, and he even added an [...]
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Humans of New York shows the power of community
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What do you do when a giant corporation steals your work? Instead of starting a lawsuit, Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York used the opportunity request DKNY donate $100,000 to send underprivileged kids to summer camp. They forked out just $25,000. Dissatisfied, Stanton turned the situation around raised more than $100,000 himself with help [...]
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Photorealistic paintings of America by Nathan Walsh
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Do you think you’re looking at photography? Think again. Contemporary British Realist Painter Nathan Walsh has created these amazing photorealistic paintings of Chicago and New York. Nathan Walsh belongs to a new generation of artists who are extending the boundaries of realist painting. Each work takes three months to complete. Not an easy job if [...]
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Wendel Patrick’s New York State of Mind
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Wendel Patrick is making a name for himself as a producer, fusing different elements of jazz, electronica and Hip Hop to create lush musical collages. In this video, he reworks DJ Premiere’s instrumental track from Nas’ classic Illmatic in his studio without the use of samples. Most brilliant.
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Golden Age of Couture meets neoprene diving suits: designs by Luciana Grimaldi
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The mastermind behind the fashion label Luciana Grimaldi is the up and coming US-American designer Kellie Lamkin, who studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After graduating, she moved to Milan to deepen her knowledge at the Politecnico di Milano. Grimaldi is actually the maiden name of her grandmother, and under that [...]
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Get an artful experience at Melbourne’s Cullen Hotel
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The Cullen, located in Melbourne’s stylish South Yarra, is one of three boutique hotels in the Art Series Group, which dedicates hotels to individual artists such as Australian greats Adam Cullen, John Olsen and Charles Blackman. This beautiful boutique hotel experience immerses the guest in the aesthetic style of the artist. In The Cullen’s case, [...]
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McDonald’s takeaway food bags transformed into works of art
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New York-based Japanese artist Yuken Teruya has put eating at Mickey Dee’s to good use. He’s renowned for making stunning paper forests out of throwaway objects. This time, he’s magically turned McDonald’s takeaway food bags into works of art. Check out his stunning handcrafted miniature tree.
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