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June 9, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Reid Weissman (@astro_reid) is an astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station with a penchant for documenting his voyage on Twitter. Weissman has recently made history by posting the first Vine ever taken in space — a compressed clip of one full orbit around the earth. In the Vine, the sun never sets, instead, it […]

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September 19, 2013 Nate Cepis

News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. There’s something about phones and video games in the news today. […]

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September 5, 2013 Nate Cepis

News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. Are you wondering what the world leaders are doing at the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg? […]

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August 29, 2013 Andy Cush

We all know the internet hates loves twerking, but just how much does the internet hate love twerking? To find out, we turned to Twitter. How many times has “twerk” been tweeted in the past month? Past week? Day? Hour? We present you with Twerking on Twitter, the infographic: There you go. According to social analytics […]

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August 1, 2013 David Turner

Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop,” to many people’s chagrin, has become one of the biggest songs of the summer. The striking video, full of drug allusions, playful sexual images and questionable racial posing, immediately sparked controversy. It has over 90 million views on YouTube, and though there was strong backlash to the racial accessorizing of […]

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July 3, 2013 Nate Cepis

News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. In this edition, Usher “curates” Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks show in New York. #NewsVines: Usher "Curates" Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks https://t.co/SqRWrxnzRk — ANIMALNewYork (@ANIMALNewYork) July 3, 2013 […]

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June 28, 2013 Marina Galperina

ANIMAL stopped by the opening of Jonas Mekas’s exhibit “OUTLAW: NEW WORKS” at the Microscope Gallery last night. The 90-year-old Lithuanian filmmaker, “godfather of American avant-garde cinema” and founder of the invaluable Anthology Film Archives was cheerful and friendly, despite the aggressive theme of his show. I dedicate this Exhibition to all artists who had to go […]

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June 21, 2013 Nate Cepis

News Vines is our new reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. In this edition, ANIMAL pays tribute to the recently deceased Sopranos star. News Vines: Rest in Peace, James Gandolfini https://t.co/oTfMF8KcJ2 — ANIMALNewYork (@ANIMALNewYork) June 21, 2013 […]

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June 17, 2013 Andy Cush

Vine, still the most interesting art-making mobile app this side of Glitché, has yet to see any serious competition in the video-sharing space. (Snapchat rolled out video recently, but its private, ephemeral nature makes it a different beast entirely). But that’s about to change. According to a report from TechCrunch, Instagram will debut Vine-like video sharing features […]

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May 31, 2013 Andy Cush

As you may have noticed, we like Vine. We like it a lot. So much so that I’m inclined to tell you about Coub, a (terribly named) service that isn’t Vine, but behaves a lot like it. On Vine, users shoot six-second looping videos that they can share across social networks. On Coub, users make […]

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