Month: February 2014
Nothing to Hide, an HTML5 game released yesterday to commemorate The Day We Fight Back, flips the usual surveillance paradigm on its head. In its George Saunders-ian universe, spying is so normalized that the state will kill you off stepping outside the range of a surveillance camera even for a second. As a teenage runaway, you’re […]
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation would like to kill all the state’s 2,000-plus mute swans by 2025, citing the fact that they’re technically a non-native species that destroys other animals’ habitats. Some people, unsurprisingly, are upset about this. One such person is Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens, who’s introduced a […]
ANIMAL’s Game Plan feature 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 with Chris Cornell of Paper Dino about Save the Date, a fourth wall-breaking dating game that gets stranger every time you play it. There is […]
London street artist and human letterpress Ben Eine returns to NYC to show new work at Judith Charles Gallery in Manhattan. “Heartfelt” consists of vibrant, intricately-adorned signature fonts and wordplay on canvasses. A crucial figure in the early emergence of street art in the UK, Eine has been successfully crafting his urban typography for well over two […]
“Put some Brooklyn on him!” was one of the first things I heard once the fights started Wednesday night at the Roseland Ballroom, a venue more famous for its music but one which has hosted its share of boxing matches over the years. The Roseland, originally opened in 1919 and at its current location at […]
Here are some 8-bit style animated GIFs of famous movie moments by Slovakia-based artist Dusan Cezek. For kitsch, “Pixelwood” series is really outstanding, with perfect color schemes (that very Wes Anderson orange in Cezek’s The Life Aquatic tho!) and narrative humor (Hulk mad!!!… Hulk brb). And how about that expressive versatility of Cezek’s single “pixel” blocks! The blinking eyes […]
Sandy Cutrone was riding her bike on Montauk Highway last year when she was hit by a car and broke her shoulder. Cutrone went straight through a green light, and a driver going the opposite way turned left without yielding to incoming traffic. The impact was great enough to crack Cutrone’s helmet. In December, her […]
Last week, we showed you this map of Manhattan’s best coffee, organized by subway stop. It’s a useful resource, but those who live and work in the outer boroughs were out of luck until this week. Thankfully, Butterfruit Labs updated its map today to include western Queens and northwest Brooklyn. Those of us who live […]
It’s not uncommon for taxi drivers to kill their passengers or pedestrians in a crash and get off scot-free, without even a suspension to their licenses. On the Upper West Side, a local community board is fighting that status quo. At a meeting this week, CB7’s Transportation Committee unanimously resolved that “any driver who kills […]
Iouri, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
