Month: July 2013
The Who’s Your Daddy Truck–featuring graphics by Tats Cru–was spotted on 8th Avenue. (Photo: AlexSilverman/Flickr) […]
In East New York, there are nine homeless shelters. In the community district that encompasses Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus, Red Hook, and Cobble Hill, there is one. It’s no secret that low-income areas bear the brunt of shelters across the cities–hello, Bed-Stuy (25 shelters) and Brownsville (19)–but a group of East New Yorkers are […]
An artist who realizes that he can get press every time he paints a naked person is currently out painting naked people (with the help of assistants). Here’s some photos live from the scene at 53rd Street and Broadway of male and female models who have agreed to bare it all for the sake of […]
The “uncanny valley effect” is an Aesthetics hypothesis referring to the strong discomfort and revulsion we feel when observing subjects that look and move almost, but not perfectly, like natural human beings. It explains the prevalence of zombies and talking dolls in horror movies, and it’s something that plagues professionals in fields from robotics to 3D […]
It is the summer of Pharrell Williams. The producer/crooner/rapper’s voice and new-age without the nuance outlook are currently coursing through two of the summer’s biggest hits: Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” It’s a strange moment for the 40 year old, who, with the legendary production duo the Neptunes, turned early 2000s […]
While many of us spend our daily subway rides in a zombie-like haze, desperately using our smart devices to zone out the annoyances of fellow commuters, NYC-based Chris Russell makes art. He’s spent the past three years filling 8 accordion-style sketchbooks with illustrations of the subway’s swarm of faces to create his series “Foolish Behavior in the House […]
Earlier today, around fifty people gathered outside the Russian Consulate General near Central Park to protest President Putin’s anti-gay laws. From banning pride parades for the next 100 years, to making any public mention of the existence of LGBT criminal “gay-propaganda” to declaring that anyone visiting Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics — athletes included […]
The Crimea Sich is a military-patriotic training camp for young Cossacks set in the canyon of medieval fortress town of Eski-Kerman. Cossack children as young as seven are sent to there for a minimal cost. Daily activities include target shooting and the hand-to-hand fighting of Kadochnikova, as well as an equally intensive Russian Orthodox “spiritual […]
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer is the the latest film from Wild Style director Charlie Ahearn. The aptly entitled documentary offers a glimpse into the life of Shabazz, a notable photographer who’s well known for his unique stylings of subjects and the access he was able to achieve while documenting old school NYC street culture. ANIMAL spoke to Ahearn […]
Sometime last year, Andy Fields stumbled upon what he claims to be an early sketch by internationally renowned artist Andy Warhol. The sketch was purchased as part of a series of unidentified drawings and has since been sent to the Andy Warhol Foundation for authentication. However, despite the opinions of numerous experts from auction houses […]
