Month: June 2013
London is notorious for its network of CCTV cameras. The surveillance efforts are ubiquitous, Orwellian and frighteningly advanced: Authorities can watch and track people, from camera to camera, all over the city. While New York City is moving in the same direction, at least in London a menagerie of signs has been deployed to remind the […]
Grenco Science, the vaporizer brand with official models for Action Bronson and The Game, wants to make Amanda Bynes their newest endorsee, according to a letter nabbed by TMZ. “We think you’d be a great spokesperson,” writes Grenco CEO Chris Folkerts in the letter. “We know you will love our vaporizers so much you will never […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Rick Silva illustrates his work process — “encounters between the tools of digital communication and the unbuilt environment.” He makes new media landscapes on site and is currently exhibiting at TRANSFER gallery in Brooklyn. For the enpleinair.org site/series […]
David Lynch has a new album coming out! By the sound of lead single “I’m Waiting Here,” featuring Lykke Li, it might lean a little less on the freaky-deaky dissonance of Crazy Clown Time, and a little more on the kinds of sounds that actually turn up in Lynch’s films. Li gives the kind of understatedly powerful […]
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. Walking down Istiklal Street — a broad pedestrian path leading out of Istanbul’s downtown Taksim Square — the air is festive. It feels like a vibrant party scene, with techno music […]
Drug enforcement authorities in Washington are encountering an unusual but awesome problem after the state voted to legalize recreational use of cannabis last year: re-training drug dogs to “unsmell” weed. It’s not a requirement in the state, but departments in Seattle, Bremerton, and Bellevue have opted to either have veteran dogs go through unsmelling training or […]
For the next two weeks, ANIMAL will be highlighting the people who are doing it up proper in London, from artists and musicians to filmmakers, cycling proponents and vegan cooks. Even our our beloved pigeons will be speaking British. This city is bubbling with culture and we hope to show you the side of it that […]
Bob Diamond–the same guy who rediscovered an old rail tunnel under Atlantic Avenue in the ‘8os, then sued the city when they cut off his access to it in 2011–wants to make a more publicly accessible Red Hook. Diamond envisions a streetcar system that would connect the neighborhood to Downtown Brooklyn, shuttling straphangers back and […]
Neil, Shoreditch. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
