Month: June 2013
For Emiland De Cubber, the most offensive part of NSA’s PRISM program is not the egregious violation of privacy, but the hideous slideshow the agency used to present it. Cluttered with clip art, inconsistent colors, and needlessly emphasized type, the slides looked more like work of a grade school media teacher than that of an […]
According to new data issued by the Bloomberg administration Monday, many more people will be living in high flood-risk areas of New York City in the coming decades. Currently, 398,000 people live in NYC’s 100-year flood plain–the area of the city with a one percent chance of flooding in a given year. Bloomberg’s team expects […]
As part of a promotion for Adobe’s Creative Day, photographer and expert retoucher Erik Johansson took to the streets of Finland and photoshopped the likenesses of pedestrians into mock bus station advertisements. Each of these photoshops were made on the fly by a team of that took numerous high resolution photographs of pedestrians waiting for the bus and then quickly edited […]
RZA, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti beef in Greenpoint gets very personal and even boils over to include another writer. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
We didn’t actually go to cover the latest installment of the Red Hook Crit like we did last time, but by all accounts, the thing was pretty gnarly. There were lots of crashes. Only five people finished (as opposed to 28 at the last race). There’s an unconfirmed report of a guy who crashed in […]
Being the simple peasants that we are, we sometimes forget that we’re constantly being screwed by the big ol’ dicks who caused the global financial crisis. As a not-so-subtle reminder, British interventionist group Shift//Delete transformed the Gherkin building, an emblem of London’s financial district, into the world’s tallest penis. Aptly nicknamed Jerkin the Gherkin, Act of […]
If you enjoyed DJ Hennessy Youngman’s CVS Bangers mixtape, here’s his newest compilation. In response to the shocking leaks, it’s highly topical, well-mixed and the Eric Edwards-esque DJ drops are hilarious. “I always feel like Somebody’s watching me…” “SOMEBODY IS.” Ok, maybe not so hilarious. Because the NSA is watching you. So “clear your browsing […]
Artist Rafaël Rozendaal has just announced a new collaborative project as part of MOCA’s upcoming ART x YOU series. To participate, submit an original idea for a URL as a comment to this YouTube video: Rozendaal will then select his favorite possible web address among the many submissions and use it as inspiration to create a new web-based piece. He recommends using this […]
“No Bueno,” Angel Haze’s NSFW doozy of a new video, features a whole cast of characters lip synching or actually rapping and signing along to Angel’s verses–fat people, thin people, black people, white people, young tattooed punks, and old-timey country-and-western types. It’s great. Angel Haze is a very good rapper. And yes, as you noticed when […]
