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A giant pigeon overlooks 10th Avenue

The High Line introduces a large pigeon sculpture.

Pigeon on The High Line

Perched above 10th Avenue at around 30th St on The High Line spur is an incredible sculpture titled Dinosaur made by Iván Argote. The giant pigeon measures 21 feet in height and places the iconic NYC bird as master over its human counterparts. Up close, the bird’s details are even more striking, with its signature red feet and talons nearly digging into its concrete podium.

The best view is right up next to it, but pull a bit farther back along the Moynihan Connector bridge or even south on 10th Avenue and you’ll really see the bird in its element. Go check it out until Spring 2026!

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Final days at the abandoned VITAS Healthcare building in Downtown Miami

A final look at the VITAS Healthcare building in Downtown Miami before it gets demolished.

VITAS Healthcare Downtown Miami

I am in Miami for a few days and I had to take some time out to see the former VITAS Healthcare building in Downtown Miami with my own eyes. This place was bombed with graffiti from crews worldwide in nearly 1 night several years back during Art Basel. It was one of those huge graffiti “campaigns” similar to the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza in Los Angeles.

As of this post, the VITAS Healthcare building is monitored 24/7 by private security on all sides across the street and most of the building is scheduled for complete demolition within this year. This is a very last look at it before it becomes dust.

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A crane fell over in Madison Square Park

What is this toppled crane at Madison Square Park?

Well, not quite.

This giant toppled crane, titled Fixed Crane, at Madison Square Park is the artwork of Nicole Eisenman. It is currently on view until March 9, 2025 and features a vintage crane with a 90-foot arm leaned over on its side. The art piece takes over the entire Oval Lawn in the center of Madison Square Park and invites viewers to walk right up to it to get a closer look. While you can’t climb the crane, you are welcome to touch it and interact with it as this massive metal structure sits idle.

Check it out before it gets disassembled and move elsewhere!

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An AI journey to create a glass hotdog

I made some glass hotdogs.

A glass hotdog

A glass hotdog

First off, hotdog is one word. I need to remember that because every time I type the word, I 2nd guess myself about whether it should be “hot dog” (as in, a dog that is hot?) or “hotdog” (as in, the thing you eat).

Secondly, have you ever seen a glass hotdog? I haven’t. I’ve seen glass window decorations with a drawn hotdog over them, but I’m talking about a full-on glass object shaped like a transparent hotdog. I needed one recently and so I asked AI to make one. I won’t give away where these are from, but I was thinking that it’s possible I’ve been the only person in the world to ever as a computer for this type of abomination.

An early glass hotdog that wasn’t quite glass or hotdog.

None of these are perfect, and some of them are downright weird, but the path to understanding how a machine thinks of both a hotdog and glass object is truly the transformative journey. I felt like I learned a new type of language syntax or something.

Enjoy this collection of glass and glass-like objects shaped like hotdogs.

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The world of Portland graffiti

The good guys and bad guys of the Portland graffiti world.

Graffiti artist GIMER has been in the news lately because after many years of dodging the authorities, he’s been caught and arrested. The Portland police say he was caught after new evidence emerged from a video interview he did with CHAOSTOWN last year in which GIMER, whose real name is James S. Fischel, was shown giving a tour of his stash house. There are some rumors that the CHAOSTOWN creators were responsible for giving information over to authorities, but obviously none of that is verified by anybody for now.

But since the police themselves referenced the video shown above, it’s safe to say that CHAOSTOWN isn’t gonna land any new interviews with graffiti artists for a while.

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Video of an early demo version of The Sims

Watch this very early demo of The Sims from 1998.

The Sims is being celebrated at Metafilter today and they’ve unearthed this video from 1998 showing an early demo version of the game. I spent countless hours playing the original The Sims when it came out. I had bootlegged the game on IRC channels (yes, I am that old) in many parts over an internet connection that probably wasn’t any faster than 56kbps. It was such a fun game of design and torture, with seemingly endless possibilities of life trajectories at the click of the mouse.

The first version of The Sims, released in 2000, was surprisingly not that different from this 1998 demo version. Pretty cool to see it in such an early development phase.

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DOOM running on Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle

A developer has ported DOOM to run on a Lightning to HDMI adapter.

This might be the most unusual place I’ve seen DOOM ported to, even after that incredible DOOM port on a PDF. Because of Apple’s walled-garden approach to chip designs, a lot of their peripherals also contain SoC (system on chip) designs that basically allow verified code to be injected and run. Normally this is very locked down but somebody hacked the Lightning to HDMI dongle to run DOOM.

Thanks MacRumors!

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