City construction projects are notorious for exceeding budgets and timelines, but the World Trade Center Transportation Hub has bottomed even the lowest expectations, becoming “one of the most expensive and most delayed train stations ever built” in the city, reports the New York Times. The project, conceived in 2004 with a budget of $2 billion, […]
Phenibut (brand name Noofen) is an anxiety-relieving drug that feels sort of like GHB or alcohol, and has been gaining attention recently because it’s 100% legal and has chillaxative properties. It’s a derivative of the GABA neurotransmitter that mediates the effects of drugs like alcohol, GHB, and benzos. Widely sold on the internet as a […]
As we read into the FBI’s complaint, we find out more about the idiotic CEBro of Silk Road 2, SpaceX engineer Blake Benthall. Silk Road 2 was the resurrection of the pioneering darknet marketplace, Silk Road, which sold everything from drugs to fake passports, and was taken down by law enforcement in October 2013. Even […]
Earlier this year, a for-profit company named Wat-aah! staged a very public press conference with First Lady Michelle Obama to promote its high-end brand of bottled water, which is marketed to children with street art. “Wat-aah!’s mission is to make water undeniably cool and desirable among kids,” reads their about page on their Facebook. The company […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist and comedian Sean Joseph Patrick Carney talks about making Experimental Aioli, seven signature aioli flavors paying tribute to a New York individual or institution of cultural influence including Bill de Blasio, Action Bronson and Matthew Barney for a performance installation […]
Protests in Ukraine have been going on for more than two months, with up to a million protestors marching and camped out in the street and clashing with police armies, but in the last two days, it’s gotten a lot darker. Watching the reportage of journalists on the ground is the closest thing to tracking military […]
Now that it’s over, what can we learn from the Breaking Bad series? If you’ve got cancer, go fuckin’ YOLO. Or something like that. Anyway, let’s rate the overall drug dealings and business practices of Walter White and his associate Jesse Pinkman, as per the “10 Crack Commandments” as laid forth by Mr. Christopher George Latore “The Notorious […]
What do we do here? Lots of stuff. Recently, ANIMAL trolled Supreme, got love from Rachel Maddow, ruled the Vine game and reported from the front lines of #OccupyGezi. We interviewed artists, made mixtapes, documented graffiti in the UK and Egypt, looked into this Abramović thing, made a “Merry Indie Xmas” and shot the official “Rent Is Too Damn High” music video. We’re about dogs, bikes, street artists, hackers, troublemakers and “rap quotes.” When historic […]
Do you like what we have been up to lately? We trolled Supreme, got love from Rachel Maddow, beat Tribeca Film Festival in the Vine game and reported from the front lines of #OccupyGezi. We interviewed artists, made mixtapes, documented graffiti in London and shot the “Rent Is Too Damn High” music video for Jimmy McMillan all over NYC. If last year we were about boxer […]
Woah. This is an ongoing photo series “Neon Luminance” by Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard of San Francisco’s From the Lenz. The pair strategically dropped Cyalume glow sticks in several moon-lit waterfalls throughout Northern California and captured the mesmerizing light trails using long exposure. The result: glorious fairy-rave fantasy dreamscapes. At times, the duo tied multiple glow […]
