Month: March 2014
These are very beautiful photographs from Donigan Cumming’s very rare photobook The Stage (1991), unearthed by LightBox’s Eugene Reznik. There’s something off about them. Cumming — a Montreal-based installation artist, photographer, experimental documentary filmmaker, etc. — left the US for Canada in the ’70s in opposition to the Vietnam War, and he hated photojournalism. He spelled out […]
The D Train! D for dirt! The transit advocacy group Straphangers Campaign released the results of its 14th annual “Subway Schmutz” survey today, and found that the Bronx-to-Coney-Island line has more grime than any other train. According to the survey, just 17 percent of D Train cars are clean. The next-nastiest line was the A, with […]
Most New Yorkers can hardly afford to live in crappy, amenity-free apartments, so a potential strike amongst the Building Services Employee Union won’t affect the majority of people. But those who rely on doormen and porters are screwed if a new contract is not signed by 4/20. They may even have to start living like […]
The SXSWiest thing to come out of SXSW Interactive this year might be the BB.Suit, a onesie that functions as a Wi-Fi hotspot, so you never have to go without your precious internet. According to its manufacturer, a company called ByBorre, the suit is 3D-knitted — basically, created by an automated knitting machine — and […]
Interior. Leather Bar. (2013) Went to Francofest thought this is going to be James Franco reenacting 40 minutes of explicit gay S&M sex cut out of Cruising, but it’s really a 60-minute meta-documentary of James Franco trying to reenact 40 minutes of explicit gay S&M sex cut out of Cruising AND IT WAS VERY FUCKING GOOD WTF (ﾉﾟ0ﾟ)ﾉ~~ ATTABOY FRANCO: 4.5 out of 5.0 Francoly, […]
Believe it or not, being thrust into a parasitic relationship with a tiny helpless human is not the end of life as you know it. At noon on Wednesday, March 26th, some movie-loving breeders of New York City have the option of seeing Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Volume 1 — with their babies! The special lunchtime “Rattle & Reel” […]
New York City is a cold, unforgiving place for a rabbit without a place to live, and bunny homelessness is only on the rise. According to DNAinfo, Animal Control took in 380 of the critters last year, up from 341 the year before. “I’ve never lived somewhere where this happens as often as it does here,” P.J. McKosky, a representative […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan 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 Shelly Alon about Olav & the Lute, a game about gods and a magic musical instrument. Shelly Alon is a man. He lived the […]
CoinEx, a Bitcoin exchange, has been “hacked” and all coins stolen. On March 16, CoinEx went silent and all trading stopped. The official Twitter account had but a short, enigmatic tweet: “Security issue, investigating.” There was no more information for three days. Coming in the wake of the bankruptcy of MtGox, formerly the largest exchange, […]
Justin Casquejo, a 16-year-old from Weehawken, NJ, made his way to the top of 1 World Trade Center at 4AM Sunday, sneaking past several security guards. To get to the 104th floor, Casquejo simply took the elevator — according to the Post, the operator let him up despite his lack of ID. The young urban explorer got […]
