Month: June 2013
You’re a published author. Why did you decide to apply for an editorial internship at ANIMAL? I thought that more than any blog based in New York, ANIMAL covers a wide range of topics of interest — from Laurel Nakadate and Marina Abramović to police corruption — in a way that seems to offer […]
Evan Roth’s Ideas Worth Spreading was a stand-out piece in the F.A.T. GOLD five-year retrospective exhibition at Eyebeam in which visitors were invited to create and document their own fake TED Talk. In retrospect, the piece worked swimmingly. Not only have people been genuinely confused during the time of the exhibit as people Instagramed and tweeted themselves “doing TED Talks,” ANIMAL’s […]
If you enjoy kaleidoscopes, world travel, tinky ambient music, or the olde 1999 hit PC game RollerCoaster Tycoon, then you will love this hyperlapse video. Filmmaker darwinfish105 created this visual wild ride by shooting from the back of Tokyo’s Yurikamome transit system and then altering it with a bunch of crazy mirror and vertical flip effects […]
This August, dozens of musicians will use a solar-powered FM transmitter to broadcast never-before-heard songs for 24 hours… in the middle of Scotland’s Galloway Forest. Songs from artists like Mogwai, Clint Mansell and Eccentric Research Counsel will be forever erased by a “government-strength deletion program” after they’ve played through the forest. There will be no […]
Artist Sterling Crispin’s newest project uses a quadcopter surveillance drone, but in a fresh and, perhaps, humanizing way. Crispin has tracked the movements of the small drone based on its responses to his movement. The drones eyes were cameras. Its entire intelligence was completely artificial. Then, after gathering its flight information using a simple motion capture system Crispin utilized a 3D […]
Between 2005 and 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 17 million pounds of weed on the Mexico-U.S. border. Seventeen million pounds. That’s seven billion dimebags! It’s enough weed to roll a joint taller than the Washington Monument, I just learned from this nutso, meme-y look at just how much pot 17 million pounds really is, courtesy of the […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, London’s Good Wives and Warriors (Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell) show us the inspiration and process behind their Der Anfang des Endes project in Berlin — “an epic apocalyptic, mythical mass of writhing beasts.” We usually have a […]
On the day of May 1st, 1956, two brothers — Arturo and Gustavo Martinez — set out on an arduous journey in hopes of crossing multiple continents by bicycle. After achieving this impressive feat fifty-four years later, the two brothers have decided to document their attempt to retrace their iconic journey “in an exploration of memory, the cycle of […]
Laurel Nakadate’s lastest exhibition is, in many ways, a far departure from dancing in her underwear in seedy apartments of old, bald strangers from the internet. Nakadate travelled thirty-seven thousand miles across thirty-one states to find her “Relations” — distant cousins of various racial backgrounds. One with a shotgun. One in a crib. All standing inside the glaring […]
Is it possible that the NYPD’s apparent disdain for Hispanic people extends to members of its own force? In May, officer Jessica Guzman was issued a department reprimand after speaking one sentence of conversational spanish to a colleague who had addressed her in the same language. The interaction was so insignificant, Guzman says she doesn’t […]
