Year: 2013
See how many of your favorite indie musicians you can spot in the video for Vampire Weekend’s “Diane Young.” Look, there’s Chromeo, picking a fight with Vampire Weekend drummer Chris Thomson from across the dinner table! And Santigold playing with sparklers! And, in the video’s greatest moment, Despot smokes a positively tremendous amount of weed […]
Justin Wedes of Occupy Wall Street is reporting from the front lines of the protests in Turkey for ANIMAL all week. He’s also tweeting from the field continuously. It’s been eight days since the sit-in against a shopping mall development in Istanbul’s Gezi Park and something magical is happening. After extensive police skirmishes in the streets around Gezi, the […]
In the video above, Antonio Melillo, who has been paralyzed from the waist down for two years, can be seen walking. He moves slowly, holding two handrails for support, and he has several people spotting him, making sure he doesn’t stumble along the way–but still, there he is, walking. Melillo is being assisted by a Mindwalker, […]
Why is this man wearing the Victoria Line subway seat pattern, sitting in a Victoria Line subway seat? It’s been “Done.” “Everything’s been fucking done before. That’s kind of how the name came about” says Will Rowley-Conwy to ANIMAL, the original founder of streetwear-ish t-shirt company Done London. The 24-year-old was born and raised in […]
London-based artist Phil Thompson’s ongoing project Copyrights– one that is largely based on the Google Art Project’s interior views of museums, and the hazy, blurred out paintings that accompany these images as a result of complicated copyright issues surrounding some of the works. Some of the paintings in virtual walkthrough of the museums are blurred out because they are not actually […]
For a recent feature commissioned by British foodie magazine The Gourmand, photographer Catherine Losing created the mesmerizing series The Serpent That Ate Its Own Tail. Losing’s bizarre shots depict edible suicide missions, from a row of pierced eyeballs overseeing the deep-frying demise of dismembered chicken parts to an octopus grasping at an electric crocodile knife, powered by […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Listening to Cities Aviv’s latest release, 2012’s excellent Black Pleasure, it’s hard not to be wowed and/or disoriented by the sonic landscape. Out is the left-of-center boom-bap that characterized his debut, replaced with music that’s […]
Nepotism? What nepotism? Here’s Printed Internet‘s take on the upcoming RollingStone.com content. Previously on Printed Internet […]
Right, then. This here is a series of exemplary butts with Roy Lichtenstein reproductions painted on them. The work by Boyarde Messenger will be part of her “Pop Art Bottoms” show at the Affordable Art Fair in London later this month. Prints, presumably. Possibly, the ladies. Also, butts are challenging canvases, Messenger explains: The body is a lumpy canvas and, […]
New data from the ACLU shows a staggering racial disparity in cannabis arrests nationwide: In 2010, black Americans were four times more likely to be arrested on charges related to the plant than whites, even though rates at which each group smoked weed were similar. “We found that in virtually every county in the country, […]
