Month: February 2013
Some of Twitter’s popularity may be due to its multipurpose ability: you can creep on celebrities, make half-assed jokes, talk about live events or participate in #tittytuesday. Curating pictures of college students playing tonsil hockey, however, is a less common use. Enter @columbiamakeout, an account with the sole purpose of documenting photographic evidence of Columbia […]
Poor, washed-up, misunderstood Elmo. It’s been a tough year for our furry red friend: first the whole Kevin Clash scandal, and now, this. Just look at him, all wretched and quivering and encased in carbonite. Just like your childhood innocence. This work of art is the brainchild of artist/3D engineer Todd Blatt, who was inspired one […]
Scattered amid the thousands of pictures of Michael Bloomberg speaking behind a podium, the official Flickr account of the mayor’s office contains a treasure trove of strange, hilarious, and otherwise notable images. We did the hard work so you don’t have to, scanning through 10,536 photos and picking out the the greatest hits. Spider-Berg, Spider-Berg, […]
While environmentalists and city officials are determined to cleanse and beautify the cesspool that is the Gowanus Canal, photographer William Miller can appreciate it just the way it is. In his latest series, Gowanus Canal, Miller presents the Brooklyn waterway in all her toxic glory, masterfully transforming the filth into images of abstract, otherworldly splendor. […]
Cab Roulette is a recurring series in which comedian Dan Speiser interviews cab drivers about their experiences on the job. This is Ahmed from Bangladesh talks about kids, drugs, money and Bloomberg. Episode 1: Abdulai Episode 2: Tony Episode 3: Adama Episode 4: Santos Episode 5: Sam Episode 6: Chowdhry Episode 7: Adams Episode 8: Induhussein Episode 9: Victor Episode 10: Clautiere Episode 11: Abraham (A Cam: […]
So, David Bowie and Tilda Swinton aren’t the same person after all, because here they are in his new video for “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” and it’s glorious. It speaks so much to the average man, you know, the aging rockstar haunted by visions of his sparkling glory and the manic spirits of stylized doppelgängers […]
We’ve had a lot of fun looking at your 6-second Vines for the #VeryShortFilmFest. Thanks for all the naughty art, internet! You were amazing. Refresher: Since Vine — that hot social media platform that lets you record, edit and share 6-second-videos with sound in-camera — slapped NC-17 rating because of all the, ahem, dicks, we here at ANIMAL took […]
A couple of geniuses created the On1on, a parody/not-parody news site that parodies the parody news site the Onion. Confused yet? The On1on compiles real news stories that are ridiculous enough to appear on the satire site, then packages them in a format that’s nearly identical to the Onion‘s. The site appears to automatically populate with content from Reddit’s “Not The […]
Hip-hop entrepreneur Michael “Blue” Williams is proposing an unusual plan to deal with gun violence in New York: offer tickets to see Jay-Z or Beyonce at their upcoming shows to anyone who brings in a firearm for buyback. Williams also plans to augment the buyback model in more substantiative ways, giving the option for kids […]
Roscoe, St Mark’s Place. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
