Month: September 2013
Have you heard of “Good Part of Town?” Formerly known as, wait for it, “Ghetto Tracker,” the terrible, terrible, terrible site hopes to “help you determine which parts of town are safe and which parts are not” by crowdsourcing information about the relative safeness of a city’s neighborhoods. Much has already been made about how […]
Artist Jennifer Maravillas is mapping Brooklyn, all of Brooklyn. “The name of my map is 71 Square Miles because that’s how big the borough is,” she tells ANIMAL, peeling old crinkled flyers off posts and picking up scribbled-up, torn-out paper from the sidewalk. “I’m interested in trash because it shows so much about people’s lives. It’s language and […]
The newest commissioned artwork for the High Line Billboard was recently unveiled. Chosen for the billboard was “Waking“, a 1984 image featuring the collaborative artist duo Gilbert & George surrounded on both sides by various young men, many of whom are wearing rather garish makeup, and are accompanied by several expressive splotches of color. The entire stained […]
Remember when Facebook announced it would begin incorporating hashtags back in spring and everybody was like uh, okay? And we were like, how are hashtags going to work when so many people have their updates set to private, unlike on Twitter? Well. As it turns out, they don’t work. According to new data from the […]
Insomnia is New York. New York is insomnia. We have a 24/7 metro system, last call at 4am, and 24hr restaurants everywhere. Leave the office, stay up all night and catch a cab, because in a few hours, it’s time to get to the office and start it all over again. But you toss and […]
For his new series therainpaintings, Kilo Collective’s Brazilian-born artist Gustavo Sousa collects raindrops — in Paris, São Paulo and around New York, from Hell’s Kitchen to Chelsea to Park Avenue — and watercolors with them. “We have these beautiful sculptures floating above us every day and we take little notice of them, especially in big cities like […]
Friday evening, NASA will begin its next mission to the moon, launching an unmanned spacecraft with the hopes of studying the satellite’s atmosphere and surface dust. And though the launch, scheduled for 11:27PM, is happening at the Wallops Flight Center on Virginia’s eastern shore, in the right conditions, it may be possible to see it […]
Michael Bloomberg’s epic quest to stave off any limits to the NYPD’s power continues. Yesterday, the mayor sued City Council over a recently-passed law that will make it easier for New Yorkers to file a lawsuit against the police department if they feel they were profiled or discriminated against. The bill is one half of […]
Luis, McCarren Skatepark. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A vacant lot off South 5th in Williamsburg doubles as an outdoor graffiti gallery, for now. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
