Month: February 2013
A “biker” is no longer “a motorcyclist, especially one who is a member of a gang: a long-haired biker in dirty denims,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which has succumbed to criticism backed by insurance industry research and altered the definition for one of the world’s earliest countercultures as we know it. According to […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist Cody Critcheloe shows us his sketches for SSION’s new music video “HIGH.” The video was written and directed by Critcheloe and shot in his native Kansas City, conceptualized as “an Americanized Dante’s Inferno.” Come in. Go from […]
Animals is an animated web series that (almost) shares a name and a similar set of interests with this very website. The latest episode features a bizarre love triangle of three pigeons who get nice and awkward before stumbling upon some sort of dead mammal. I won’t ruin the surprise for you. Phil Matarese and Mike […]
Alexander Semenov is the head diver at Moscow State University’s White Sea Biological Station in the Russian Arctic. When he’s not doing science-y stuff and whatever else head divers at biological stations do, he’s taking photographs of whatever beautiful plants and animals he finds underwater and posting them to his Flickr. The latest installment, uploaded […]
Next month, London artist Ron Mueck is having his first major exhibition in Paris since 2005 and for the occasion, he let French photographer Gautier DeBlonde inside his studio to take these photgraphs. Wow. You can see the sculptural hyperrealism master tinkering at the intricate details — softly chiseling gigantic pores into the skin, adjusting the age-spots and frail hairs, polishing […]
Niklas Roy, a professor at art university in Germany (where else?) recently challenged his students to create functional computing systems using nothing more than cardboard, welding wire, glue, rope, rulers and cutting knifes. To prove it could be done, Roy also created a cardboard computer himself–the ingenious plotting machine in the above video. Roy’s students submitted […]
Months after Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York City, the neighborhood surrounding Lower Manhattan’s South Street Seaport is still struggling to get on its feet. Eighty-five percent of small businesses in the area remain closed and boarded up. Many have damaged electrical and internet wiring, and some owners are unsure whether they’ll ever be able to […]
ANIMAL loves F.A.T. artists so much, you know? But here’s F.A.T.’s street artist Katsu braggingabout tagging in Minecraft, all like “The future of graffiti for me will be in the form of black hat tactics” and “MINECRAFT offers me a way to connect with my untainted inner youth and create expressions of criminal activity without the police […]
Michelle, Manhattan. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Burn out fluorescents bring all new meaning to Pasta Vino’s signage in Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
