Month: June 2013
GZA and a group of NYC students were literally dropping science this weekend, at the final event of Science Genius, a pilot program spearheaded by the Wu-Tang Genius that used rap to to teach biology, chemistry, geology and physics. After a semester-long lead-up, a handful of students battled for science rap supremacy, with the winner bringing […]
At 2,722 feet, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, is almost 1.5 times the size of the finished 1WTC, at 1,776 feet (take that, freedom!). What’s it like inside? The latest installment of Google’s Trekker Street View project, which maps areas inaccessible to the company’s camera-equipped vans (check out the Grand Canyon here) goes […]
Walter, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
KUMA, LOGIK, and GATS are just some of the graffiti writers whose work can be seen from the Williamsburg Bridge pedestrian path. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Not to be outdone by the NSA and the GHCQ, the NYPD is unveiling some scary spying equipment of its own. The Domain Awareness System, a program rolled out last year that compiles information from every NYPD surveillance camera, license plate reader, and radiation detector in the city, will soon be made available for every cop […]
The official trailer for the Steve Jobs biopic has been released. Yey. Played by Ashton Kutcher, see Steve leave college to start Apple Computers in a garage with his neighborhood friend Steve Wozniak. He’s also banging chicks and looks at the sun in a way people who take psychotropics look at the sun. Look at him […]
News Vines is our new reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. In this edition, ANIMAL pays tribute to the recently deceased Sopranos star. News Vines: Rest in Peace, James Gandolfini https://t.co/oTfMF8KcJ2 — ANIMALNewYork (@ANIMALNewYork) June 21, 2013 […]
Here are the Seven Deadly Sins, re-imagined as sleek illustrations by Vincent Mahé. There’s a hint of a vintage paperback feel, but mostly, there is an overpowering “elite” aesthetic. WTF is an avarice? Oh, but of course. It’s when you have a dozen dozens too many very expensive wines in your wine cellar. But, yes. And Sloth is when you […]
There was so much more to Dr. Seuss than his zany, surrealistically animated children’s stories. Aside from his left-leaning political stances, troublesome affinity for bootlegged gin, and an extramarital affair that reportedly led to his sick wife’s suicide, he privately produced an enormous art collection that was perhaps too “out there” even for his children’s […]
In 1961, Frank Drake had conceived an equation that could theoretically predict the likelihood of finding intelligent life on some of our more distant planets. While this equation can’t effectively solved for “x,” it helped shed light on exactly how many different factors are actually involved in the search for intelligent life. That was then. This is now. […]
