Month: June 2013
Becky, South Street Seaport. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Whether he’s painting illegal rooftops in Williamsburg or permission spots–like this most recent wall in Chinatown–graffiti artist Jersey Joe aka RIME continues to kill the game. Note to Village Voice: The graffiti as art debate was settled decades ago. (Photo: Klughaus Gallery/Flickr) […]
DOMA’s demise meant the end of a long legal battle for one New York City-based binational couple. Sean Brooks and his Columbian-native husband Steven filed for a green card for Steven in 2011, after their marriage at City Hall in New York City, but their request was not approved as their marriage was not federally […]
Al Jazeera recently released a striking photo essay documenting the “Standing Man” protest currently taking place in Turkey. It started when performance artist Erdem Gunduz silently stood facing the Ataturk Cultural Centre in Taksim Square, Istanbul, for eight hours. In an interview Gunduz said, “Maybe the media and people will learn something from this silent standing, this resistance… […]
“Meet Charlie. He’s a stoner. And recently his job made him move cities, and he can’t find any dank buds.” What is Charlie to do? Why not get on Atlantis, the recently established deep web marketplace (think Silk Road) that promises total anonymity for buyers and sellers looking to traffic in all manner of controlled […]
REVOK and POSE are making steady progress on the Bowery Wall. Here’s what it looked like as of this afternoon. One thing that’s noticeably absent are the artists. As we noted, the Mad Society Kings will be working on their mural mostly at night cause it’s just too damn muggy and hot. (Photos: Aymann Islamil/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Brooklyn’s MakerBot is not the largest 3D printing company in the world, but its efforts to transform a relatively niche, industrial technology into a genuine mainstream revolution — in which regular people can design and print physical objects as easily as they now print photos — have made it the most visible avatar of the […]
News Vines is our new reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. In this edition, the Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional in a historic 5-4 ruling. News Vines: The Supreme Court Finds DOMA Unconstitutional https://t.co/bD6TD7V34u — ANIMALNewYork (@ANIMALNewYork) June 26, 2013 […]
Last night, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis gave an 11-hour filibuster that successfully killed a bill that would have shut down nearly every abortion clinic in that state. Naturally, the internet loved it, and responded with a flood of fan art and memes inspired by Davis and her instantly iconic pink Mizuno sneakers. That’s Stand […]
As much as we want to hate the scurrying vermins, researchers have found that cockroaches connected to a Microsoft Kinect are now capable of mapping out disaster sites like collapsed buildings, and of even communicating with people who are trapped inside. This discovery follows a recently developed remote-control roach technology, currently funding on Kickstarter. Essentially, the […]
