Month: January 2013
The digital pranksters at Stabyourself.net created “Not Pacman,” an aptly-named, nihilistic remix of everyone’s favorite classic arcade game, in which everyone involved is at the mercy of gravity’s relentless pull. Instead of controls to direct our hero’s movements, you tilt the board, letting Pac-Man and the Ghosts fall where they may. Just watching the above YouTube […]
Juxtapoz magazine recently created a pop-up skatepark and a high-profile collaborative art installation where there were only vacant commercial lots. A few years ago, they fundraised $150,000 and worked in the same foreclosed Detroit neighborhood to refurbish homes with inspired, attention-garnering aid of artists Swoon, Retna, Ben Wolf, Richard Colman, Monica Canilao, and Saelee Oh. This time around, they invited […]
Here’s a fresh trailer for the much-anticipated doc TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay, following the trial of Pirate Bay founders, their financial hit on Hollywood and its vicious backlash. It looks riveting and essential. With flourishes of celebratory cult-following crowds and somewhat quite justified arrogance of the pirates in question — “In your face, Hollywood!” — paired […]
To do his part for Hurricane Sandy relief, South Carolina hotel owner Hans Trupp says he’s cutting his rates for any Brooklynite who wants to stay in his newly renovated beach resort: a monthly stay, which would ordinarily cost $3,069, will set Kings County residents back a paltry $650–well below what many pay for rent. Which […]
Rupert, Bay Ridge. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
I’m pretty sure this guy on the L train is not in Pussy Riot. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Rapper and 7 Mile resident Soeboy Chaz — who ANIMAL profiled last month — dropped a video featuring two tracks from his latest mixtape collaboration. Watch the resurgence of Detroit right in front of your eyes. […]
“I believe the artistic and cultural implications for this project, if completed, would be immeasurable,” writes “filmmaker” Daniel Nadolny of his latest endeavor: a biopic of the ’90s bro-rock favorites the Spin Doctors featuring Daniel Stern, the non-Joe Pesci burglar from Home Alone, in the lead role. Great! The only problem? Nadolny isn’t actually a filmmaker […]
“I was disappointed, to be honest. I have been waiting for it, like everybody else,” says Sunday Times art critic Waldemar Januszczak. And there it is. The portrait everybody’s been waiting for, allegedly. But “the Duchess of Cambridge is someone who we know likes art and was presumably going to be an enlightened patron!” And then, […]
Remember last month, when NASA purposefully crashed two of its unmanned spacecraft into the surface of the moon at around 4,000 miles per hour? It turns out both probes, dubbed Ebb and Flow, were recording video on their final kamikaze mission, rendering the above beautiful footage of the lunar surface sailing by. But I can’t […]
