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The revamped Museum of Arts and Design opened in New York a few weeks back They’re sporting newly redesigned digs and a brand spanking new graphic identity. The geometric design is apparently all over the city, plastered on the side of planes, trains and automobiles as well as the odd street banner. One can only [...]

The fourth annual Zombiecon is on this Saturday in Manhattan. With its combination of urban terrorism and Zombies, it’s a no-brainer. DEGOURGET approves. Spice up your Saturday – get dressed as a zombie and prowl the streets of Manhattan with other like minded souls – terrorise shoppers, engage in schenanigans and get a bit of [...]

Came accross this in my favourite Sydney bookstore, Ariel, the other day. A pretty novel concept – combining two of our favourite things in the world: Art and Eating. The author put this book together over a great excuse for a trip around Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam to London and New York. His road-trip rules [...]

Photo-stitching is nothing new, but when someone does it with the iPhones notoriously terrible camera, people its hard not to notice. Photo-stitching is quite literally the process of ‘stitching’ together separate photos using software like Photoshop and combining them to form a single image.  p0psharlow from flickr took and stitched these. They make the crappy, [...]

File this under reasons we love New York. Take a Seat is a public installation piece that “creates value simply by relocating an object to a new location”. The project encourages people rescue usuable chairs that have been thrown away and leave them on subway station platforms lacking in seating options. The project allows anyone [...]

The Conflux Festival is an arts festival running in New York until Sunday. Billed as “The art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space”, the four day festival features over a one hundred local and international artists performing “art installations, street art interventions, interactive performance, walking tours, bicycle and public-transit expeditions, [...]

The latest in the now global Interesting nights is being held in New York this weekend. The premise is simple – a range of speakers have 3-10 minutes to talk about a subject they are passionate about. The bite-size talks combined with actively encouraged audience participation makes for a rather entertaining experience. Previous events in [...]

This takes balls. Balls the size of which mankind has not seen since William Wallace flashed his ass at the English or Maximus stalked into the arena to take down Johnny Cash. Balls so huge I can’t think of a non celluloid example to describe the cojones involved. Or maybe I’m wrong, maybe it’s pure [...]

I’ve arrived. NYNY it’s about time I came back and it’s about time I ate some amazing Mexican food. In Syd, we are gastronomically deprived in the way of decent street latino food, so since arriving in NYC one of my first missions was to get something con yum in mah belleh. Soon enough I [...]

Our good friend M sent us the following: On September 6th, I am staging a large performance art piece that requires 6-8 hundred people recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller at the Deitch Art Parade in Soho. I am recruiting secret agents in the audience of the parade to mimic the extras in the [...]

When we’re in NYC we all have a tendency to look up at the buildings and say ‘wooow’, but little do most of us know what is actually on top some of these buildings. Low and behold big fancy gardens of the rich. Some with hot-tubs, green houses, bbq’s and even swimming pools! After living [...]

Massimo Vignelli has updated his classic 1972 NYC subway map design for Men’s Vogue. Check out some close ups over here. The original was as highly heralded as it successor has been decried. To see why glance at the current organic look that’s been in place for 30 years below. I think it goes without [...]