Month: June 2013
What do you get when you get some scientists to crystallize your own hair and then put it under a kaleidoscope? A perfect, dandruffy combination of the innovative, the beautiful, and the insanely gross. British design student Dan Keeffe, along with his friends Amy Webster, Milly Bruce, and Sam Part were inspired to create Crystallised […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week’s Sample Wars concerns a track that’s become a modern classic of sampling, entirely thanks to one producer: Clams Casino, one of the chief architects of the dreamy, blown-out […]
Justin Wedes of Occupy Wall Street is reporting from the front lines of the protests in Turkey for ANIMAL all week. He’s also tweeting from the field continuously. As the protests spread across Turkey, the dust has temporarily settled in Istanbul proper. But online, meme riots rage on as young tech-savvy protesters take to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and more to […]
Well-known Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei just did the cover art for this month’s issue of TIME magazine. While the cover bears many visual similarities to the Chinese propaganda posters of yesteryear it remains quite timid in comparison to some of the artist’s more recent works. It’s also clean and simple, and okay. Ai Weiwei as persecuted […]
Why should signs be stuck in one place, always pointing you to the same thing? Directing you to the Manhattan Bridge doesn’t do much good if the Manhattan Bridge is closed. Recognizing this, the people at Breakfast NY created “Points,” an internet-enabled sign that scours Twitter, Foursquare, and a slew of local data, then decides […]
A bill that recently passed through the New York State Senate would make it a felony punishable by up to four years in prison to “harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm” a police officer, as long as that harassment is accompanied by physical contact. The bill is on its way to the State Assembly. On first […]
Salaheddin Barhoum and Yassine Zaimi, the two young men who were identified as “Bag Men” on the cover of the New York Post during the investigation of the Boston Marathon, have sued that paper for defamation. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, argues that the Post cover and accompanying article imply Barhoum and Zaimi were lead suspects. No word on […]
Nigel, Shoreditch. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
An artist in London is presumably warning drivers about the impending dangers shitting pigeons present to cars.(Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
There’s a reason why McKibbin Lofts made it to the Worst Room Tumblr, but shut up and look beyond its notorious “h-word” “frat” reputation. There’s a reason why people do this. Not everyone cares about renovated bathrooms and walls. Who needs walls when you have friends. A French foreign exchange student living there made the […]
