Month: January 2014
You’re not smart. But how do you make it seem like you are? By employing these gestures! On their Glossary of Gestures for Critical Discussion Tumblr, Alice May Williams and Jasmine Johnson collect and display as GIFs the ubiquitous hand motions they observed among teachers and colleagues while earning their Master’s degrees at Goldsmiths college. The motions span […]
Curtis Petraglia, a North Carolina-based art director, is screwing with his buddy in pretty spectacular fashion. Nick Ott, a friend of Petraglia’s once had ambitions of modeling, and posed for a handful of really terrible portfolio shots back in 2009. Those photos found their way into Petraglia’s hands, and he did the only sensible thing: […]
Figment, the annual public art festival held on Governors Island, is seeking proposals from artists to design and build holes this year’s mini golf course. Artist-designed mini golf has become a kind of tradition for Figment over the past six years: each of the 18 holes is designed by a different artist at every festival, […]
Kurt, Flatiron District. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
To quote Black Uhuru, “Don’t show I yuh teeth, plastic smile can’t work.” (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s a taste of what Fight Club might look like if Edward Norton’s nameless main character was shown to be the lonely insane person he really is. The special effects artist Richard Trammell edited Tyler Durden out of the film’s iconic “I want you to hit me as you can” scene, so that it’s just Norton on […]
In Baltimore, Double Dagger are heroes: their records are fantastic, their live shows are the stuff of local legend, and their breakup was cause for a kind of misty-eyed mourning and nostalgia in the city’s DIY scene that wasn’t unlike what’s happening in the wake of 285 Kent’s closure here in New York. Elsewhere, you […]
There’s only one thing worse than Times Square during New Year’s Eve, and that’s Times Square during this year’s Super Bowl. MetLife Stadium in New Jersey — where the so-called New York Giants and Jets play — will be hosting this year’s event featuring the Denver Broncos facing off against the Seattle Seahawks. But because […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Chicago-based new media artist Jennifer Chan talks about the Yaoi roots of her video piece P.A.U.L. This is my Downloads folder. I collect digital things compulsively. I feel a strange attachment to digital files–or the way they should […]
“Recently released NSA documents revealed the existence of DRAGONBROKER, a surveillance program that undermined NIST standards for securing one tenth of all internet traffic. Senator Dianne Feinstein assured the public that the program is actually run by the FBI, not the NSA.” Or, if you prefer: “Recently released NSA documents revealed the existence of STUMPSHADOW, a USB hardware host tap that copies traffic from […]
