Feminist Phone Intervention

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An anonymous New Yorker has created a service for women in sketchy pick-up situations. The service—dubbed Feminist Phone Intervention—is a fake phone number to give out if feeling threatened, pressured or uncomfortable when asked for your digits. Give the number and when your pursuer calls or messages, they will receive a text with an automatically-generated quotation from feminist writer and social activist, bell hooks. It’s …

The 21st Century Piano

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The general design of the acoustic grand piano hasn’t changed much since its modernization in the 19th century. David Klavins, a master instrumentalist, has been re-imagining a piano that fits the aesthetic and sound of our century (past experiments include a 12-foot-tall upright piano). His latest is the Klavins UC (short for Una Chorda), smaller and remarkably lighter than typical pianos, weighing just under 100 …

Porcelain Pieces

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Combine Street Fighter with Ai Weiwei’s 1995 “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” piece and you get the work of German artist Martin Klimas. In his “Porcelain Figurines,” the Düsseldorf-based photographer drops the fragile statues to the ground and captures them as they shatter, injecting a dynamic quality into the rigid pieces.