Month: August 2013
Today is Russian Airborne Troops Day, an annual military pride celebration which traditionally involves gaggles of soldiers spilling into public square for merriment, flag waving, wallowing in public fountains and miscellaneous public drunkenness. This year, they have a new hobby. If anyone has any confusion about what Russia’s recently-adopted anti-gay laws do to its public, let me […]
“A good Tumblr can make an emotional stream of consciousness visible in a very visceral way,” says Califone of their new Tumblr-based music video for “Stiches.” With a custom API built, the video scrolls overlapping photos and GIFs from right to left, each clickable for the user to repost, with a different batch and sequence importing itself […]
“Back in the day there was all these people, there were hundreds of people here for music that was made by teenagers and children basically,” explains filmmaker Samuel Peralta, who’s making a documentary with Anthony Clemente about the hardcore scene of their home borough, from 1982 to 2000. Why 2000? To quote the dudes from their Staten Island Hardcore: […]
Chad, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The kids who chalked up this wall in Williamsburg are destined for graffiti greatness. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop,” to many people’s chagrin, has become one of the biggest songs of the summer. The striking video, full of drug allusions, playful sexual images and questionable racial posing, immediately sparked controversy. It has over 90 million views on YouTube, and though there was strong backlash to the racial accessorizing of […]
Starting this Saturday, the Park Avenue Tunnel will be open to pedestrians at the 33rd Street entrance, as part of Summer Streets, an event that turns nearly seven miles of New York City’s streets into car-less venues for various performances, cycling and art projects. For the occasion, Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has created a unique light and sound installation […]
Contrary to the International Olympic Committee who received “assurances from the highest level” of the Russian government that gay Olympic athletes, foreign visitors and the media will not be persecuted under the “gay propaganda” bill, yes they will. Not only the co-writer of the bill, Vitaly Milonov (petition US government to ban Milonov’s Visa here), stated that […]
By now, you’re surely aware that your privacy is being eroded upon (and if you weren’t before, yesterday’s XKeyscore leaks were a helpful reminder). Perhaps you’ve vaguely aware of things like Tor and DuckDuckGo, but don’t have a clear, fully-formed idea of how to keep your private things private. Yes, the extent of surveillance by […]
Yesterday, we showed you a few photos of someone painting nude models on 53rd Street and Broadway. Here is the video. (Video: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
