Test 2018 posts
Some of the World’s Most Striking iPhone Images
Photographers across 18 categories submitted their best iPhone photos.
smartphones
In Brief
NRA Loses One as Apple Replaces Revolver Emoji with Squirt Gun
Come fall, Apple will pry the gun emoji from your cold, texting hands.
Art
A Song That Will Outlive Us All
Longplayer is designed to play for a thousand years, which means the composition must outlast technology and catastrophes, and be carried on by generations not yet born.
Opinion
Is iPhone Photography Getting Better?
When most people think of iPhone photography, they think of Instagram. But not everybody is enamored with the popular app: namely, some professional photographers.
Art
Typography, the Video Game
The history of typography is long and rich, and now it's a video game. Type:Rider, created by Paris-based designer Théo Le Du Fuentes with Cosmografik, starts with cuneiform and proceeds through moveable type all the way to modern fonts like the loathed Comic Sans.
Art
Experimental iPhone App Lets You Paint Light With Noise
It's no secret New York City is noisy, from subway platforms where readings have been recorded over 100 decibels to the construction zones constantly tearing down and redeveloping all over the five boroughs. Yet when I was walking around and experimenting with artist Dylan Römer's new iOS app Sonogr
Opinion
Blame David Hockney: Francesco Clemente Creates an iPad Art Work
What's the appeal of an art work on an iDevice? Is it because we are familiar with these by now ubiquitous tools and work created on them give the air of being "current"? If that's the case, maybe we should change our thinking on the matter.
Opinion
A New Way to Create Shareable, Collaborative Digital Zines
When it comes to sharing content online, we’re spoiled by choice. You can post pictures to your Tumblr or Facebook, videos to YouTube or Vine, and words to … pretty much anything. But what those formats lack is a way to control the narrative of what you post. The Facebook photo album, it should be s
Art
Images from Inside Hurricane Sandy
Below are some of the notable images I encountered tonight, and I consider them a photo essay of sorts even though many of the images are not mine, but they are what I will remember about Sandy, more than the hundreds of news stories that will come out tomorrow and try to fashion a narrative for me.
Art
There’s an Emoji for That
CHICAGO — Instead of saying to yourself, "There's an app for that," repeat after me: "There's an emoji for that." In our technology-inundated world of constantly being glued to the glowing screens of our iPhones and Androids, more apps are not the answer to our first-world problems. What we need is
Interview
iPhone Oil Paintings
New York-based artist J.K. Keller has come up with a new use for his phone — a facial cleanser. In his new project, iPhone Oil Paintings, Keller rubs his iPhone all over his face and then traces patterns and designs into the resulting gunk.
Opinion
Apple’s iPhone 5 and Getting Angry at Planned Obsolescence
At their hyped-as-ever product launch yesterday, Apple announced the iPhone 5, a new version of the classic that’s longer, thinner, and lighter. The new phone is four inches long (adding 176 pixels to the height of the display), has a faster internet connection, and a better processor. So why do I f