Month: August 2013
Gerald, SoHo. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Sup dawg, I heard you like the L train, so I put the L train in your L train so you can L train while you L train. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
At around noon today, a group of protesters associated with Occupy Sandy arrived at the Women’s National Republican Club on West 51st Street, just in time for a fundraiser ostensibly to benefit the likely presidential campaign of Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). Bags of garbage slung conspicuously over their backs, clad in yellow and red trash-collectors’ […]
A few years ago, Kanye West had commissioned George Condo to create a series of paintings featuring “the characters who populate his musical fantasies” for Kanye’s album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.” He also commissioned a few limited edition silk scarves. Now, along with the help of Parisian publisher M/M, the collaborators produced a series of five screen-printed silk scarves […]
The cartoon-inspired work of the young and nationally recognized Austrian street artist NYCHOS is the subject of a recently opened solo exhibition at Brooklyn’s own Mighty Tanaka art gallery. The show, titled ‘Silly Slicesophy‘ features a selection from the artist’s latest body of work–– in which he focuses mainly on depicting some of Disney’s most instantly recognized […]
Everyone knows YouTube is home to some of the most wonderfully amateurish stuff on the internet, but there’s just so much of it. Trudging through the muck to find the best muck is hard, so here’s Boootube, a site that compiles only the most downvoted clips on the video sharing service for your browsing and searching pleasure. […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from Brooklyn’s own Grooms, whose own music pairs ’90s shabby romanticism and energy with propulsive arrangements and crystal-clear production. For their playlist, the’ve compiled a genre-hopping mix that […]
There are dozens, maybe hundreds, maybe millions (why not) of stray cats roaming the basements of St. Petersburg Hermitage’s museum since 1745. They lack proper veterinarian care and food because they’re stray cats, but the museum has managed to spin it in this really quirky way. See, they’re like “mascots,” and also holy animals (Ancient […]
Rap mixtapes have roots in 1990s DJ mixes, but took shape in their modern form the early 2000s, with The Diplomats and G-Unit remixing popular songs of the day and putting out tapes for self-promotion. The increased popularity of the format through the decade raised the expectations of these free promotional projects, putting them in […]
Cocaine use has long been associated with keeping users/addicts on the thin side (really thin side). Science has often mostly attributed this to cocaine’s appetite-suppressing effects. However, a new study recently published by four neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge suggests otherwise. The paper goes into detail of the food habits of cocaine-addicted men: They had initially reported eating more […]
