Month: May 2013
As part of a celebration honoring the life and music of the late, great, great, great Arthur Russell, here’s a previously unreleased recording of Talking Heads’ seminal “Psycho Killer” featuring Russell on cello. And unlike many archival, historical curiosities of this sort, this one is actually fucking good. Byrne’s voice doesn’t quite reach the blissful, psychotic […]
In Minecraft, players of the labor-intensive video game’s open world gaming environment are encouraged to “build anything they can imagine,” brick by pixellated brick. It’s quite apparent that artist Jan Robert Leegte may have taken that idea to heart as the artist has painstakingly recreated Robert Smithson’s well-known earthwork Spiral Jetty in great detail. However, much unlike Smithson’s work this […]
Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric directed Major Lazer’s latest video “Bubble Butt” which explains everything. Check it out: #seapunk chicks. Watch ’em swaying to clinky Caribbean-esque “dope beats” until a Giant Bubble Butt Medusa Woman comes down Godzilla style, sprouts bike pumps out of her mouth and pumps their seapunk butts until they are of proper Bubble […]
Ladies who lunch, beware: the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs has issued notices to 17 restaurants around town, ordering them to close their sidewalk dining areas or comply with zoning laws. “Please be advised you have 100 business days from and including May 1 to complete one of the following options,” said the notice, detailing […]
Using St Paul’s Cathedral as a backdrop, London’s dRMM Architects designed and plans to build Endless Staircase, a large wooden sculpture based on the famous lithographs by M.C. Escher. The large and dizzying structure will be built in collaboration with the American Hardwood Export Council as well as Arup, an engineering consultant service who have set aside approximately 144 cubic feet of […]
When photographer David Maisel chooses industry-blemished landscapes to shoot aerially, he considers not only aesthetics — he is partial to the “bizarre or surreal”-looking — but the story behind the location and its relation to photography itself. “I’m teasing apart different aspects of what compromises photography,” Maisel tells Wired UK. “To print photos, we need paper, so I’ve […]
Recently, at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, a live performance by the band Phoenix was punctuated quite nicely by the showering of their audience with approximately 42,000 fake one-hundred dollar bills, each designed by the infamous contemporary artist Richard Prince. Below is a very poor quality video of the newly designed bills raining down on the audience to set the mood. This gesture […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Small Black’s “Listen In” playlist, compiled by singer Josh Kolenik, is a crash course in arted-up new wave and outsider folk, with cuts from acid-fried Moby Grape singer Skip Spence, San Francisco street […]
File this one under “things I’m glad exist even though I’ll never actually use them myself.” Monkey Light, currently funding on Kickstarter, is a series of LED lights that attach to your bike’s wheels, displaying full-color animations when you ride between 10 and 40 miles per hour. Take a look below: Not exactly sure what […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Nicolas Sassoon takes us through the construction of Headquarters for Computers Club. Headquarters started out as random conversations with Krist Wood a few years ago. The Computers Club website was undergoing some changes at the time, and Krist offered me […]
