Year: 2013
Spider-Man’s cool — as is journalism idol J. Jonah Jameson — but judging from this video, Scientifically Accurate Spider-Man would be more of a gross social pariah than superhero. Did you know his dick would fall off and he’d shoot webbing out of his butt? Because his dick would fall off and he’d shoot webbing out […]
Voyager 1 is literally the musical translation of data from the raw feeds of the legendary spacecraft Voyager 1‘s magnetometer. Meaning that if there is ever a sci-fi movie made about the Voyager 1, and this was used as the soundtrack, it would basically be the most awesomely meta score ever. Domenico Vicinanza is a […]
Some students from Hunter College are being investigated by school officials after a video surfaced of them playing a questionable game. In the video, two participants put balloons under their shirts (representative of a fetus) and try to pop the other’s “fetus” with a plastic utensil. It’s like cockfighting, but not deadly. The objective actually […]
The centennial Armory art show opens a week from today, and because nobody can handle the anticipation, a comprehensive virtual preview went live this morning on Artsy, the browsing platform run on the Art Genome Project. From a quick scroll through, it seems that the experience on their well-designed HTML5 site is far more pleasant […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. In this week’s installment we’re looking at Miles Davis’s “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down,” which inspired two modern legends in their own right: Radiohead and Madlib (via his group Lootpack). […]
Ding ding ding, new arty app alert! KYUR8 just launched this week and… hold one minute while a make a photo zine. Ok, done! The app basically does two things: Allows you to create sleek, flippable mini-magazines in-phone with photos from your pic roll, Instagram, Facebook, etc. etc., just by tapping in assets into a […]
Last month, we posted the trailer to Police Mortality, a 66-minute supercut of footage from various Hollywood films that tells a story of NYPD violence. “It’s about an existential crisis in the NYPD that results in terrorism, communism, OWS and total freedom,” the film’s creators told us at the time. “It stars Will Smith, Bruce Willis, Robocop, […]
Michael Malice is a very successful celebrity ghostwriter, co-authoring books with D.L. Hughley and Bret Michaels, and then there was this one time Harvey Pekar wrote a book about him. For his seventh book, he’s doing something crazy. Also, he’s never going back to North Korea. “I would never go back there,” Malice tells ANIMAL. “People go to the gulag if […]
In Colorado, where it’s legal to possess weed for recreational use but still a crime to sell it, one former NASA scientist is teaching enterprising smokers how to grow their own perfectly legal bud at home. The name of his cannabis classroom: HASH (High Altitude School of Hydroponics). Dale J. Chamberlain cut his teeth designing and building […]
City Council passed a resolution yesterday calling for the city of New York to “acknowledge the years of suffering of all those involved in the Central Park jogger case,” including five men whose convictions were overturned, and the assaulted jogger herself. The decision, sponsored by councilman Charles Barron, comes after a lawsuit from the convicted […]
