Month: July 2013
Over the past five or so years, global protests have been happening under an increasingly unified aesthetic, the most recognizable element of which is the Guy Fawkes mask. Popularized by V for Vendetta and meme-ified by Anonymous, the iconic image gives solidarity to otherwise disparate groups scattered across continents. But why should that solidarity be limited to […]
After being brutally raped by an off-duty cop, 27-year-old Bronx teacher Lydia Cuomo advocated for a law that would make all forced penetration — including oral and anal — classified as “rape” under law in New York. When Cuomo’s rapist was tried in court, legally speaking, only forced vagina penetration was considered “rape,” and all other […]
Queens’s Broad Channel neighborhood is plagued by floods, and not just when an epochal storm like Sandy rolls around–about twice a month, water from Jamaica Bay takes over the streets. To combat that, the city has set aside $22 million dollars for a plan that would literally raise the streets and sidewalks of the area […]
Back in April, I came up with one of my best schemes yet. I offered my job the opportunity to fly me to Europe for the summer, where I would assume my daily music editor responsibilities, spending my weekends traveling to various places to cover and attend Europe’s famed music festivals, from Glastonbury in the […]
Richard, Murray Hill. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Flash rainstorms over Brooklyn give these NEKST graffiti tributes a biblical aesthetic. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Kanye would like to send a sincere FUK YOU to anyone who clicks on the above video, a leaked rough cut of his “Black Skinheads” clip. If you’d like to respect the God’s wishes, you could just listen to this mashup instead. […]
There’s rich artistic territory to be mined in the fuck-ups of internet things. Anyone who’s watched a music video in the past few years knows that datamoshing can be beautiful, facial recognition technology finds portraits in images of mountains and deserts, and one of the most endlessly engaging, beguiling sites on the web simply introduces lexical […]
“When I started taking pictures there was this girl with nose ring and frizzy hair…” photographer Nacio Brown remembers. Between 1969 and 1973, he photographed street life on a single block in Berkeley. “There was an absolutely horrendous mortality rate among these kids. This scene was interesting, but it was toxic. They were having sex and smoking dope […]
Perhaps you’ve already seen Jeju Loveland… in your dreams. Established in 2004, South Korea’s one and only sex sculpture park boasts 140 artfully crafted, large-scale erotic sculptures. With hands-on installations like a fully functional masturbation bike and the ever popular whack-a-dick arcade game, it promises plenty of educational, interactive fun for the whole family. Lets […]
