Month: March 2014
“JESUS” in Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Austin Houldsworth‘s new project Walden Note imagines a currency for a utopian society that doesn’t need currency. In 1942, behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner published the utopian novel Walden Two (1942) which imagines a leaderless society that shares work, family and resources. Members are “conditioned to be productive, creative and happy.” They never say “thank you,” never get paid […]
Bitcoin, with its detachment from the dollar and lack of regulation, is catnip for libertarians and anyone else looking for distance from the federal government. The Lakota Nation, a Native American group with roots in North and South Dakota, has every reason to want just that, and recently adopted a Bitcoin alternative called MazaCoin as its “official […]
When it was first launched in the late 1800s, Coca-Cola used to have cocaine in it. The company eventually reduced the amount of coca leaf to trace levels and in 1903, when sentiment about the narcotic in the U.S. started changing for the worse, the substance was removed altogether. As the success of the soft […]
Scouting NY has a comprehensive look at the NYC locations of The Godfather as they stand today. We’ve put some highlights in the gallery, including Don Corleone’s Genco Oil (128 Mott Street), the Corleone House (110 Longfellow Ave in Staten Island), and the hospital where Vito stays after he’s shot (104th Street and Southern Boulevard in […]
The cycle of Pharrell’s oversized, Vivienne Westwood-designed hat is complete, and Arby’s comes out of it with some very good PR. Yesterday, the roast beef purveyor ponied up $44,000 to buy the lid on eBay, which will benefit the producer’s charity From One Hand to Another. Here’s how the exchange between Arby’s and Pharrell went […]
Tune in: Wide-band WebSDR is a web-based ham radio on steroids that samples the entire shortwave spectrum. You and dozens of others can tune into radio transmissions worldwide, courtesy of the ETGD amateur radio club at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Listen to Tibetan music and amateurs chattin’. Check out illegal pirate radio stations. Eavesdrop […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Jay Shells — of Rap Quotes fame on both coasts — talks about his New York-centric, labor-of-love-intensive wood burning series, on view March 7th-9th at the Fountain Art Fair. A little over two years ago, while walking my dogs […]
The rise and subsequent fall of Flappy Bird launched countless remakes, imitators, and artistic homages. Now, thanks to a competition for Flappy Bird-inspired games, here are 800 more. The variety of games on display, all of which draw from the ‘Flappy’ template in some way, is astounding. There are relatively straightforward recreations of the original […]
Good news for New York’s mute swans, which are currently under threat of total eradication by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation: the DEC will consider managing the birds in a way that doesn’t involve hunting down and killing every last one of them. The DEC originally proposed the plan because mute swans are an […]
