Month: August 2013
The federal ruling that deemed the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactics unconstitutional was a landmark decision, but the battle is far from over. Mayor Bloomberg, who recently said “I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little,” already said he’s going to appeal the decision. In the meantime, to keep the pressure on, ANIMAL teamed […]
At the center of the Marijuana Policy Project’s “controversial” ad at NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 was the claim that cannabis is less toxic than alcohol. It’s true–just ask the fact-checkers at Politifact–but the feds, unsurprisingly, are having none of it. The National Institute for Drug Abuse recently issued a statement reading, “Claiming that marijuana is less […]
Do you see anything in the massive cluster of Emojis above? Try stepping back from your computer and squinting your eyes a little so it goes out of focus. Anything? Nothing? It’s me! Wearing sunglasses! Made out of Emojis! I made it using Emojify, a new app for iOS that turns each pixel of a […]
Ignacio, Times Square. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It takes about an hour and half to sew up a pair of pants is among the many things I learned while riding the subway into the city from Bushwick with an Amish couple last week. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
What do we do here? Lots of stuff. Recently, ANIMAL trolled Supreme, got love from Rachel Maddow, ruled the Vine game and reported from the front lines of #OccupyGezi. We interviewed artists, made mixtapes, documented graffiti in the UK and Egypt, looked into this Abramović thing, made a “Merry Indie Xmas” and shot the official “Rent Is Too Damn High” music video. We’re about dogs, bikes, street artists, hackers, troublemakers and “rap quotes.” When historic […]
Seventy-three-year-old Chinese immigrant Pei-Shen Qian, was known throughout his neighborhood for making a quiet living as an artist, although he was often discouraged by things such as language barriers and in many ways felt unable to connect with his audience. However, the works entering and leaving his home studio in Queens were not the works of an […]
These photos were shot at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on August 16th during the second annual Pussy Riot protest and solidarity concert. To show their support against the unjust imprisonmentof Pussy Riot, the protestors wore brightly colored “balaclavas,” the emblem of Pussy Riot’s [attempted] anonymity and, ultimately, a signature image of protest. It’s been over […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Tristan Perich shows us the beginnings and production of Microtonal Wall, a piece currently on view at the MoMA “Soundings.” Made up of 1,500 tiny speakers, Microtonal Wall emits a texture of sound that changes as you walk along […]
Back in 1977, a team of hip NASA scientists led by astrophysicist Carl Sagan produced two gold-plated copper records featuring a compendium of sounds, images, and illustrations from planet Earth. The 12-inch time capsules were loaded onto twin Voyager spacecraft then launched into space with the hopes that alien life would find the records and […]
