Month: May 2013
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Today’s “Listen In” comes from Philly post-punk band Psychic Teens, who assembled a fitting soundtrack for what’s forecast to be a cloudy memorial day weekend, featuring downcast, fitful cuts from Sonic Youth, R.E.M., […]
Brooklyn Bridge is the Times Square of bridges. Here are a few artifacts that Joe America has left behind in the from of citizen graffiti, as well as local writers. Nothing particularly fancy. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
And there they are. The Citi Bike program has been launched, with 850 of 6,000 bikes in the stations as of this morning. Here’s a map of the stations, right here. For now, the bikes are only available to people with memberships. Earlier this month, this bikeshare program reached 10,000 annual members. Welcome to the Bike Age? Here’s one on 1st […]
South Korea has the highest rate of plastic surgery per capita than anywhere else in the world. Plastic surgery has become not just the norm but “integral” to the so-called self-improvement process. Artist Ji Yeo notes pinpoints the source. It is a culture where men are judged on their financial balance sheet and women by their beauty. The […]
You’re forgiven for traveling to New Jersey for weed–maybe you or someone you know has a medical card and you’d like to hit up the Green Leaf Compassion Center. Totally understandable. Just don’t give in to the temptation to have a drink while you’re there. State authorities claim no fewer than 29 New Jersey restaurants–including […]
Bad news for anyone who’s ever dealt with a roach-infested apartment: a group of scientists has discovered a strain of cockroaches that is no longer tolerant of glucose, the better to avoid our sugar-laced roach motels. According to a (thoroughly disgusting) BBC News video, the evolved bugs’ taste buds that would ordinarily respond to bitter […]
Josh, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The view of the Manhattan underground subway system can be spectacular, if you know your way around. (Photo: House of Hammer/Flickr) […]
With Steven Soderbergh’s quickly impeding retirement, the director is making new career moves — more producing mostly, but also… T-SHIRTS, T-SHIRTS, come and get your OBSCURE-FILM-REFERENCING T-SHIRTS! Basically, he’s cleaning out his closet and auctioning off memorabilia, slates, scripts with notes, film festival badges, etc., at Extension 765. But also OBSCURE-FILM-REFERENCING T-SHIRTS! Have you ever seen the ’40s film noir Laura by […]
American master of analog color photography William Eggleston shot this photo of his camera bag for the June issue of the Wall St Journal. This retrofitted leather number is just one of his three camera-filled bags. This one contains 13 different Leica cameras and a few Canons. Photography is expensive. Eggleston’s photography is expensive. Ironically, this bag of elite film camera equipment […]
