Month: August 2013
Ilham Rawoot’s “Doing the Gaza Flip” story in the upcoming issue of DAZED Magazine is a look into the Camps Breakerz Crew of Palestine. Squashed between the military aggression of Israel and the internal oppression of Hamas, living under one of the highest rates of unemployment in the world, with nothing to do but smoke hash, youth […]
To illustrate the disconnect many long-term prisoners feel with the modern, web-connected world, a reporter with Buzzfeed FWD spoke to several prisoners serving long sentences who have never used the internet to describe what they think it’s like. The responses are striking. With few exceptions, it’s illegal to go online the if you’re imprisoned in […]
Fresh young cops! Big bad criminals! A mafia bro’s girl that needs masculine rescue! This is one of the most popular genres of movies being made in Russia right now — Special Forces cops, now with feelings! The newest — Breaking Loose from director Alexey Uchitel — will premiere at the Toronto International Film Fest next month. It […]
Here are the greatest LEGO sets you’ll never own, assuming your the type of adult who still buys LEGO sets or the type of child who reads ANIMAL. Created by Flickr user Rifiröfi, the unofficial sets depict classic scenes from Monty Python and the Whole Grail, like the fight with the Black Knight (above), the witch trial, and […]
You may not have noticed amidst all the hubbub about Christine Quinn, new frontronner Bill de Blasio, and the erstwhile Carlos Danger, but there’s a Republican mayoral primary fight going on right now, too. And, you may or may not be surprised to learn, the current surge of potential stop-and-frisk reforms hasn’t affected the candidates’ […]
Pablo, Williamsburg. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh‘s wheat-paste in Fort Green is a response to the harassment that women experience daily on the streets of New York. Check out more of her work here. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It turns out the NYPD’s unwarranted surveillance of New York muslims was worse than anyone initially thought. After 9/11, the department began using a police tool known as a “terrorism enterprise investigation” (TEI) to target entire mosques as potential terrorist groups, allowing the surveillance of any person who attends. According to the AP, TEIs were often […]
In their new paper “Attitudes Without Objects: Evidence for a Dispositional Attitude, its Measurement, and its Consequences,” psychologists Justin Hepler and Dolores Albarracin explain that individuals who usually tend to respond to things negatively will statistically react in a negative way to new things. Translation: “Haters gonna hate.” If individuals differ in the general tendency to […]
The World’s End (2013) Like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz but w/40-yo-ish exbestbros doing a pub crawl while fighting alien robots. British but I liked — got jokes & everything ｡CUZ ° SO ° FUNNY｡ Ah, the futility of recapturing comforting camaraderie and rebellion of youth in the face of decades of compounding cynicism and HOLY SHIT FUCKING ALIEN ROBOTS ARE COMING […]
