For seven weeks this spring, nine 20-foot-tall, human-shaped stone figures by Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone, will transform Rockefeller Center to another time. The work, Human Nature, will be free to the public and is on view April 23 through June 7, 2013. The giant figures are a stark READ MORE >
If you don’t follow social media, you may be wondering what Vine is and why it has been all over the news lately. Vine is another free social media app for smartphones built to share super short videos and it’s been growing wildly, quickly become one of the top iPhone READ MORE >
Free the Mind is a new documentary about the ability of meditation to rewire the brain. Featuring neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson, the film follows two veterans grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder from serving in Iraq and Afghanistan as Davidson teaches them meditation to ease their pain and help them return READ MORE >
Nick D’Aloisio created Trimit, an app that condenses text into 1000, 500, or 140-character summaries. Trimit was Apple’s #1 staff favorite in 100 countries. Give it a try; we here at Milk* think it’s pretty cool. Nick went on to build Summly, a further step in information condensing technology for READ MORE >
Want to learn how to scientifically cure a hangover? Did you know the print on a cat’s nose is as unique as a fingerprint? Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown created AsapSCIENCE to answer all your burning questions about science. They explain in simple, fun videos why do we cry? Does READ MORE >
After the drunken debauchery and downing of copious amounts nachos you might need a cleanse. A deep cleanse. For that, look no further than Atlanta programmer, Rob Rhinehart. He believes he has all the nutrients a human needs in a concoction made from broken-down multivitamins, raw elements like potassium and READ MORE >
We begin this issue with a bit of news that isn’t exactly new. You may have heard that Rhythm and Hues, the company behind the Academy Award-winning visual effects in Life of Pi, declared bankruptcy shortly before the Oscars. What is new, and just as jaw dropping as the digital READ MORE >
While Life of Pi was a visual effects tour de force, the Academy Award-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man was a crowning achievement for DIY filmmaking. After all, director Malik Bendjelloul finished filming the movie with his iPhone when he ran out of money. All it took was the 8mm READ MORE >
Have you heard of Vice yet? If not, run, don’t walk, to your nearest tablet and treat yourself to the freshest and most daring immersionist journalism around. What began as an arts and culture magazine in Montreal, then evolved into music, TV and film, is now a hard-hitting news series READ MORE >
Mad Men Season 6 is here, so you know where we’ll be Sundays at 9PM. There’s no doubt that Matthew Weiner’s brainchild will go down in history as one of the greatest scripted series of all time. But it will also be forever known as the launching pad of Kiernan READ MORE >