Month: January 2014
Jeff Thompson has seen more Law & Order than you. In fact, the digital artist has seen all 456 episodes of the original, non-SVU or –CI version of the show, and while watching, he took a screenshot of every computer that appears onscreen. He’ll present his findings in Computers on Law & Order, a Rhizome-funded talk at the Museum of the […]
Anchorman 2 (2013) I didn’t see 1, but they said it was going to be funny （￣へ￣） CAMEOS: 6.0 out of 5.0 DRAAAKE!!! Then there’s like this scene right where all the news teams are battling each other in the park. KANYE?!!! ヽ(^。^)丿Nah. Jim Carrey and what’s his name. All this amuses me because I’ve seen […]
To create the animations you see above, the design house Moniker created instructions for drawing each frame, then let visitors to Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum draw them themselves. Some frames had strict, specific instructions — “Connect all dots to all dots. Use straight lines.” — others were more ambiguous and open to interpretation. The process creates […]
The most frustrating part of Bill de Blasio’s mea culpa about the “botched” plow job on the Upper East Side after the snowstorm was that by apologizing, the mayor was privileging the wealthy UES over the city’s other snowbound neighborhoods. He played right into the New York Post’s weather class warfare non-narrative, despite the fact […]
In an effort to put more cops on the street, as many as two dozen police officers who lost their guns after shootings could be de-armed under a new plan from NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, the Daily News is reporting. Cops are put under modified duty any time they fire their weapons on the job while the department […]
Nikolai, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The very historic Nantucket Lightship sitting pretty in an icy Hudson River off the coast of TriBeCa. (Photo: @Jayson Atienza) […]
Creative Commons images are indispensable for new media types. Much of the visual content for blogs like ANIMAL and many others come from Creative Commons, for instance, and the license allows designers and artists to use preexisting visuals in their work without worrying about copyright. So it’s exciting that the Wellcome Library, a collection of […]
On January 28, Miles Pflanz will be holding a retrospective screening of his 2013 films at Silent Barn. Pflanz — founder of the now defunct Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics — is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn. His non-narrative films are documents of “public provocations, the aimless rage of youth counter […]
Here’s a trailer for Arne Toonen’s Black Out. On the morning before his wedding, retired criminal Jos (Raymond Thiry) wakes up next to a murdered man with no memory of the previous night or how he and the body got there. Jos soon discovers that a group of gangsters have pinned him as the lone suspect in […]
