Year: 2013
Cops busted the Bronx’s hardest-partying day care this week, turning up 1,000 oxycodone pills, tens of thousands of dollars in cash, guns, and at least a kilo of cocaine at Parkchester’s Fun World Childcare. Three hundred grams of that coke was stuffed into what looked like a kid’s lunchbox. Gregorio Hanley and Johanna Vasquez, the married, […]
Scientists at the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health have put together an estimate of the total number of mammal viruses in the world. That number currently stands at 320,000. There are the global seed banks (currently 6 million varieties stored in 1,300 banks), the human genome, and now, viruses have begun to enter the big data […]
Latka, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
After a special screening of Informant at the Lincoln Center, anarchist activist and turned Conservative media lapdog Brandon Darby Skypes with John McKay — the man he put informed on to the FBI and put in prison. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Today, a popular Russian television station EvroKino was issued an official warning from Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media for “propagating same-sex relations” by showing a 2007 French musical Les Chansons d’Amour (Love Songs) directed by Christophe Honoré. It’s about three hot French people in a hot three-way relationship. Then, there’s another […]
Generating Utopia, by German developer Stefan Wagner, takes Foursquare location data as input, then maps your most-visited (or most-broadcasted, to be precise) locations onto the topography of an area. It’s a bit like these topographical maps of NYC’s wealth, but way prettier and with money swapped out for total oversharing. Wagner had this to say about […]
Open any image file as a word document and you’ll notice a ton of text data that may seem like nonsense. That’s the information that makes up a .jpeg image file. Adding or modifying this information in any way corrupts the image in a visibly recognizable way. Expanding upon this concept, Georg Fischer developed a simple website interface […]
Who cares what you’re wearing. You’re about to fight somebody. What are you taking off? Presuming the people sashaying outside Lincoln Center would actually punch out the line-stepper who stole their precious Rachel Zoe fashion show seat, ANIMAL enlisted fashion expert Courtney Kornegay ask, “If you were in a brawl, what’s coming off first?” (Video: Aymann […]
For this year’s Venice Film Festival, 70 renowned filmmakers made 60-90 second short films. Their concept: Future Reloaded. They that were screened at the festival and just uploaded to YouTube. Well, Todd Solondz owned this little assignment. Remember Life During Wartime? “Are you seeing anyone?” “No, I’m more focused on China right now. Everything else is history, it’s just a […]
ANIMAL’s new feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke to Steve Gaynor of The Fullbright Company about Gone Home, an indie PC game that’s earned nearly universal acclaim for its nuanced storytelling and atmosphere. It’s […]
