Month: October 2013
Tu veux nous y rejoindre? /ty vø nuz i ʁəʒwɛ̃ndʁ/ You want to join us there? After a couple months of coquettish Facebook chats, my French friends were finally in town. One blond and one dark-haired, they were a couple looking for a third to stop by their hotel. Excited to use the word ménage-à-trois […]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History recently received over twenty of Jim Henson’s puppets and props on the anniversary of what would have been the Muppets creator’s seventy-seventh birthday. Acquisitions include characters from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock. According to the museum’s blog, the collection will not be on display until many of them undergo several small repairs […]
Pigeons: they’re the city’s most easily-spottable creatures and ANIMAL’s unofficial mascots, so it was only fitting to kick off our new series of NYC nature documentaries with a look into the scrappy, oft-misunderstood birds. We observed pigeons in their natural habitats–the city’s parks, streets, and buildings–and spoke to New York Audubon Society Executive Director Glenn Phillips […]
While cycling through the East Village on my way to work at around 10 this morning, I spotted a friendly face on 8th Street and 1st Avenue: Louis C.K., behind the camera and presumably shooting the next season of Louie. “I want the show to keep getting better. That’s my goal, and I don’t want it […]
Yesterday, California became the second state to enact a new law making “revenge porn” a criminal offense, just like in New Jersey. There is a penalty of up to six months in jail and $1,000 fine according to the bill. Summed up by The Guardian: The bill, which takes effect immediately, makes it a misdemeanor to post identifiable nude […]
We should have expected the first Citi Bike-related lawsuits to be rolling in by now, but what’s surprising is that they are unrelated to the bikes themselves. Two separate pedestrians plan to sue the city because they tripped over bike racks. The first actually seems reasonable: Howard Orlick, 52, is legally blind. He says he twisted […]
Banksy pieces don’t last long in New York. There will be no debates about preserving his work and no time to chisel it out off the wall he painted on, like in most cities. Here, his work suffers a quick death by way of tagging, modification and ultimately, an all out buffing. Below is what’s left […]
Are you tired of journalists/bloggers/angry old people writing articles about “hipsters,” whatever the hell that means? (Hint: NOTHING!) Don’t worry. We got this. ANIMAL friend Peter Yeh (who made Ke$hek and helped us out a bunch) has adapted a github “cloud-to-butt” codec, woo. Download this Hipster-to-Other Chrome extension and all occurrences of “hipster” in your browser will be replaced […]
Fox News published a story on its website Monday about the government shutdown that reeks of The Onion. “How to visit national parks during the partial gov’t shutdown,” reads the headline. And then they go there: National parks were not exempt from the government shutdown but that does not mean you can’t ‘visit’ the nation’s […]
Dan Grayber’s sculptures look completely utilitarian. Intricately constructed from springs, nuts and bolts, and custom-fabricated metal, they wouldn’t look out of place under the hood of your car, or in the more specialized corners of your local hardware store. But they don’t actually do anything. Well, they do something. They’re all incased in glass, and designed to […]
