Month: June 2013
We’ve seen robotic roaches and tweet-controlled critters before, but nothing quite like this. RoboRoach, currently funding on Kickstarter, is a $99 kit that would allow users to turn a cockroach–yes, an actual, living cockroach–into their own personal cyborg. See the thing in action above. Getting the bug under your command is just as gruesome as you might imagine. […]
An unlikely group hopes to bring more bike share stations to North Brooklyn: Hasidim for Bikes, a Williamsburg-based organization which hopes to “give a voice to the silent majority of Hasidim who live in Hasidic neighborhoods and want bikes in their neighborhoods.” The Hasidic community in Williamsburg has a long history of battling against bikes–one […]
Andre, Williamsburg. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In East London it’s all about street art, but in West London it’s all about graffiti. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Absorb the cycling know-how of an entire city with this crowdsourced map from the New York Times, which allows anyone to add ten words of wisdom to any location in the five boroughs. A few choice cuts –Maris from Park Slope says Clinton St. is a better route to the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges than Smith, Erich […]
Sometimes you just need a good shank, but who has the time to actually craft one of these unique homemade cutting/stabbing tools themselves? Well… Brooklyn designers Chen Chen & Kai Williams have already began to capitalize on the virtually nonexistent market of shanks and are selling a collection thirty shanks, each as a limited edition, with design materials ranging from […]
News Vines is our new reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. In this edition, Cindy and Shirley do a little after-school gossiping. News Vines: The #NSA Violates Your Privacy vine.co/v/bL1K23hzu2O — ANIMALNewYork (@ANIMALNewYork) June 7, 2013 […]
While walking around Shoreditch last Friday around 11:30PM and not even looking for any more street art, Aymann and I came across two artists painting a mural, legally, on Great Eastern Street. UPDATE: That wall has a name. It’s a busy thoroughfare, so throngs of passers-by stopped, snapped photos with their phones and, for the most […]
ANIMAL stopped by the reception for “Brooklyn Photo Show,” with work by 15 Brooklyn-based photographers spanning 13 years. Ok, I stopped by the show and it was damn solid and I’ll spare you the art speak this time. Beautiful graffiti. Genesis P-Orridge. Rooftop mornings. Jesus dragging a cross through the streets. Neatly packaged weed. Rats flying through the […]
It’s only a matter of time before 5 Pointz is gone, and whether they intended to or not, a video production company called Aerial VP has created a fitting tribute to the graffiti sacred grounds. The footage, shot from a hexacopter drone, is something to behold, even if the editing sucks and the soundtrack is […]
