Month: January 2014
Taylor, NYC. (Photo: @tommaync) […]
Tonight was the 56th annual Grammy Awards. Musical artists performed, danced funnily, and were awarded gold sippy cups. But it was Pharrell Williams’ silly hat that won everything. It was so silly, that even Arby’s marketing team were able to take advantage of the headwear and pull off a joke about it on Twitter. Hey […]
Graffiti proliferator PIXOTE does his best to beautify the abject ugliness that is vinyl siding in Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Filmmaker Josh Cohen sent us this safe sex PSA he made with hopes that we could ” show [it] to a larger audience.” Well, here you go, Josh. It’s the kind of thing you want to hate but can’t help but be charmed by in the end. I’m not sure I would have chosen a bagel […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 19°F NIGHT 14°F Larry Clark’s 71st birthday party is tonight at Baby’s All Right, if you’re into that sort of thing. (8pm, Brooklyn, free) Get your noise on with Prurient […]
The Ustream channel from Maidan in Kiev has been streaming 24-hours-a-day for some time now. After the dramatic battles between protesters and police over the last few days, there was a very tentative truce while possible peace talks were taking place, but a possible resolution is unclear so far. This is the scene in Independence Square right now: […]
Snowy weather provides optimal conditions for graffiti artists to get up and lots of them have been using the recent winter storms to do just that. But they’re not just hitting walls and roll-down gates. They’re painting the holy grail of graffiti: New York City subway cars. UPDATE: Another train was painted with a Spy […]
This week, George Zimmerman unleashed his latest painting — an ugly, heavy-handed rendering of Angela Corey, the special prosecutor on his trial. Much like his last “work,” which appropriated a stock photo of an American flag, this one liberally lifts from a preexisting image as well: an Associated Press photo of Corey taken by Rick […]
Finally, a cure for Upworthy syndrome: Downworthy, a browser extension that tones down the hyperbolic language that started on the similarly-named viral content farm and has gradually been spreading across the internet like, well, a virus. Brilliant! Here are a few Downworthy-altered headlines from bastard-son-of-Upworthy Viral Nova: Here Are 20 Painfully Ordinary Places You Would […]
The FAB Velo, a DIY vehicle created by Mark Richardson, is an assemblage of the kind of stuff laying around in the basement of your parents’ house: razor scooters, walkers, old beach chairs, and the like. Put together, it looks a bit like a homemade Tron bike, with two wheels up front, one in back, […]
