Month: January 2013
File this under “things I must have immediately”: the Oxford Pocket Dictionary, translated into Internet–that is to say, with every word’s definition replaced with the first Google Images search result. Each entry is presented without context or commentary; what results is a free-associative, kaleidoscopic tour through the consciousness of the web, all wrapped in a beautifully bound […]
Cab Roulette is a recurring series in which comedian Dan Speiser interviews cab drivers about their experiences on the job. Dan’s latest cab encounter is with a driver named Adams (first name), who’s down with a cold after being sneezed on by a slew of passengers. Episode 1: Abdulai Episode 2: Tony Episode 3: Adama […]
For entrepreneur Troy Dayton, providing basic services like insurance and capital management amounts to revolutionary business. The support his firm ArcView supplies might sound standard, but the businesses it works with are anything but: ArcView coordinates investment for the booming number of legal, cannabis-focused companies taking root across the United States. “I always thought that […]
In an effort to curb New York’s out-of-control prescription drug market, Ray Kelly and the NYPD are considering a radical new plan: embedding “bait bottles” with GPS tracking devices, then hiding them among regular stock at pharmacies. If a pill thief lifts the bait bottle, the thinking goes, cops will be able to track it […]
When you fantasize about a globally-devastating event, isn’t one of the highlights… this? The silhouettes of Rio, Tokyo, San Francisco, New York submerged in utter dead darkness? And those stars. Suddenly visible, all of them. Mmm… End of the World, yeah, that’s the stuff. Photographer Thierry Cohen’s Darkened Cities travelled to remote areas to captured the unmolested night sky and digitally transplanted them […]
Digital artist Andy Willis creates the above beautiful collages by analyzing each second of a film for its most prominent hue, then displaying those colors on a 60-wide grid–turning iconic movies into abstract streams of color. His works, called “Spotmaps” are as functional as they are aesthetic: scanning the maps of the first three Die Hard films, […]
For the past five months, an anonymous group called “Racism Still Exists” has been posting powerful billboards in bus shelters around Bed-Stuy, with the stated aim of “[illuminating] some of the ways in which racism operates in this country.” Their latest, spotted by photographer Stephanie Keith, is a poster that takes refreshingly direct aim at the […]
In response to the recent spat of subway-related deaths, the train operators union has called for drivers to drastically reduce their speed when entering a station. A memo distributed by the union urges operators to “enter every station as if there is a pair of yellow lanterns at the entrance,” a sign which calls for […]
Ken, Times Square. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
This evening, there was a major traffic accident on the Williamsburg Bridge. Actor, stuntman, and all around camera operator Dean Neistat witnessed it and managed to capture the shots of the aftermath. “I saw this car crash on the Williamsburg Bridge tonight,” he tells ANIMAL. Three cars were involved and according to him, “one flipped over,” but […]
