Month: January 2014
Arthur, Astor Place newsstand. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Tebori tattoo artist Takashi Matsuba works at his Brooklyn studio. Read about him in ANIMAL’s cover story for today’s Metro. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Allen Henson, a photographer who’s made a name for himself in part by taking pictures of topless women around New York City, found out this week he’s being sued for $1.1 million by the company that owns the Empire State Building. Henson photographed model Shelby Carter atop the iconic building in August, an act the […]
Artist Allison Schulnik makes traditional claymation and stop-motion films that flow between strangely pretty and somewhat sickening. Her previous clip set to Scott Walker was trippy. Her newest Eager is somewhat of an opus. It starts off minimally, with expressively choreographed, stringy, ghoul-like figures, and then blooms to complete forests of insane flowers, their centers gaping and flapping and morphing into skulls […]
Here’s some evidence of just how badly we’re fucking up the planet. Tributyltin, a chemical that was used in painting ship hulls before it was banned internationally in 2008, has been making female snails grown penises and vas deferens — the tubes that carry sperm — for decades. In some cases, the growths were large […]
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Today’s list comes from Juan Wauters, former frontman of New York City garage rock stalwarts The Beets. Wauters draws heavily from Latin American music of the 1960s and 1970s, including several tunes — like […]
Jerry Delakas’s East Village newsstand, which operated on Astor Place for 26 years before the city shut it down last month, reopened today. The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs forced Delakas to close because he worked without a license, and instead paid a monthly fee to “a succession of people who had received operator licenses,” […]
There are many films about porn, but Ninja Thyberg’s fictional short Pleasure is different. Starring Jenny Hutton, it’s an explicit look behind-the-scenes of a porn shoot, particularly at the non-sexual and clinical preparatory routine before some extremely physically-challenging maneuvers. The film plays at Sundance Film Festival later this week, in the Shorts Competition. It has already won the Critics’ Week […]
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology analyzed the linguistics of tens of thousands of Kickstarter proposals over the year 2012, to find whether the words people use in their pitches impact whether or not they’re successfully funded. Their findings? You’re more likely to convince people to give you their money if you’re not a […]
It’s not a secret that film critic Armond White — known for “provocative and idiosyncratic film criticism” (and terrible taste) — not liked. But during last week’s New York Film Critics Circle awards ceremony, he went a bit too far, allegedly heckling 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen. “You’re an embarrassing doorman and garbage man!” he shouted from […]
