Year: 2013
Hear’s a cool supercut that uses the sound of “percussive maintenance” –that is, characters in TV and movies smacking things to try to get them to work–as the rhythm track for an instrumental piano ballad. Clever! I especially like the closing shot of Andy Dwyer throwing his computer across the room. […]
Kids songs suck… But not when they’re covered by your favorite musical acts like sort of Grimes, Vampire Weekend and Danny Brown! That’s why ANIMAL made you this… “Indie Kidz Songs” — the best music compilation for kids OF ALL TIME [recently] featuring timeless children’s classics covered by very cool indie rock bands, hip rappers and […]
Good news for watchers of the Second Avenue Subway: progress! The 80-year-old project received its first-ever shipment of rails today, a cargo that will be stored in a “cavern” at 96th Street until further notice, according to the New York Times. Okay, it isn’t much, but it does look like the MTA is on track to hit […]
Big deal curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist used to carry around an art gallery in his pocket. Artists exhibited inside its 2 by 3 inch picture frame, until Douglas Gordon lost the Nano Museum in a bar in 1990. Now, Obrist is reviving the project, sort of, by curating a future exhibit at artist Henry Gunderson’s virtual gallery Water McBeer. It’s 300 […]
Q, Upper East Side. (Photo: Ben Taylor) […]
A delayed L train reveals a page from the autobiography of REVS. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In the impressive, terrifying video above, an F-16 takes off, flies around for a while, hits mach 1.47, comes down, and sticks a perfect landing–all without a pilot inside. Yes, the U.S. Air Force and Boeing have turned a fighter plane into a drone, making a UAV out of a regular-ol’ AV. They’re calling it […]
Here’s a rough and nonetheless breathtaking example of the possibilities of live 4D body scanning. Demonstrates the emerging technology, Lee Perry-Smith says that “once perfected,” 4D body scanning “will offer incredible opportunities for motion vision research and motion capture.” Perry-Smith cites Eadweard James Muybridge — “an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and […]
General David Patraeus was offered a prestigious guest professorship at the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and many of the students and faculty are not happy. Yesterday, protesters gathered with sings at Columbus Avenue and 67th Street, telling ANIMAL that they are trying to “drive out” “the war criminal.” […]
The National Security Agency has recently posted a new full-time job opening for “Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer.” This position is the first of its kind, likely created in response to the NSA’s recent — not so recent — blatant spying on US citizens. The NSA Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer (CLPO) is conceived as a completely new role, combining the […]
