Month: February 2014
In his post “Why We Don’t Sell Ads,” co-founder of WhatsApp, Jan Koum rails against in-app ads and quotes Fight Club. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. – Tyler Durden, Fight Club But that was in 2012, before Facebook acquired the messaging application for a whopping […]
If you enjoyed the mind-melting malleable paper skull sculpture by Li Hongbo, he’s currently exhibiting at the Klein Sun Gallery in New York. Here’s some slow-motion video documentation of the sculptures by Kid Guy Collective’s Todd Martin. When the classical porcelain-like Greek and Renaissance busts begin to fall apart, melt and stretch and fall back together… Don’t worry. That’s just […]
Over the last few hundred years, New York City has designated 54 honorary Squares. LeRoy McCarthy is in a fight with Manhattan’s Community Board 3 to make Beastie Boys Square the 55th. While many have debated the validity of this proposed honor, maybe it’s time to examine the previously named public spaces. Squares named after […]
Martha, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Citizen graffiti shares too much information in Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In April, the Brush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas will be exhibiting “two dozen never-before-exhibited portraits painted by President Bush.” The announcement was made a month after the arrest of hacker Guccifer, who famously first leaked George W’s bad paintings. The bad paintings were of cats and dogs, mostly but also some bath-time self-portraits which reminded me […]
The Creator Of The Jungle is a documentary film by Jordi Morató, freshly premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam. The film follows an eccentric man named “Garrell” who has been building giant, immaculate jungle-like structures and towers in a Spanish forest, for kicks and catharsis. The archival footage used in the film shows him dressing […]
To celebrate the release of Yoav Litvin’s book “Outdoor Gallery,” the Brooklyn art exhibit featured works from more than 40 artists and included 3 collaborative murals and films from DEGA. “The book is my kind of document of my adventures in New York city,” Litvin tells ANIMAL. “I grew up here in the ’80s, so all the […]
Steven Soderbergh’s post-“retirement” projects keep getting more interesting. First, he was selling t-shirts based on obscure references to fictional companies in film; now, he’s cutting together Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of same into one mashed-up über-thriller. Says Soderbergh: “This…comes from a place of total affection, openness, and honey bought directly from a […]
If the above video doesn’t make you want to shotgun a beer and punch through a wall, I don’t think I want to know you. Set to a soundtrack of ridiculous, chugging heavy metal guitars, we see engineers demo the Unified Weapons Master suit — a technology that promises to turn mixed martial arts into […]
