Month: March 2014
In September of last year, three men BASE jumped off of 1 World Trade Center, and yesterday, they published GoPro footage of their exploits on YouTube. The stunt looks as insane as it sounds, and seeing the streets of the Financial District rushing towards the camera before the parachuter pulls his chord is exhilarating. All […]
Issei, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves, recently on view at the MoMA. (Photo: @richardrhyme) […]
(UPDATED 3-25) In the latest twist to semi-anonymous sticker bomber BNE’s already confounding Saturday t-shirt launch—originally heralded as a “collaboration between BNE and Banksy”—BNE has admitted that street art fans who plunked down $80 for the still blank t-shirt in the hopes of snagging a piece of art history, had “NOT purchase[d] a Banksy t-shirt.” […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Hudson, NY-based artist Parker Shipp shares a vast collection of notes about her sculpture HUSK, inspired by natural disasters, ubi sunt, Japanese Gutai and the Neolithic sculptures of Nevalı Çori and Göbekli Tepe. HUSK is currently on view […]
Is the dramatic death of bitcoin’s oldest exchange Mt.Gox and the subsequent hacking of CoinEx getting you down? Do you need a little pick-you-up to get re-inspired by the possibilities of crypto-currency? Do you live in Europe? Because we hear this Yellow Bitcoin is good stuff. (Please don’t die.) Someone from Reddit just encountered it in the restroom of a […]
Guus Ter Beek and Tayfun Serier’s “Street Eraser” project makes public spaces look like they’ve been photoshopped. The pair use what look like vinyl-cut stickers to emblazon the checkered pattern associated with Adobe’s image-editing software on street art and advertising, adding a bit of whimsy to the urban environment. That both men are advertising creatives […]
Dodging your fare may get more difficult soon, as the NYPD is beginning self-defense training for cab drivers. According to the Post, the regimen will include strategies for dealing with “violent passengers and farebeaters” as well as “handling high-stress situations that could lead to road rage and accidents.” Training will also include what a driver should do […]
Tomas Van Houtryve, a photojournalist with the VII Photo agency, mounted his camera to a small drone he bought on Amazon and traveled the country photographing “the very sorts of gatherings that have become habitual targets for foreign air strikes—weddings, funerals, groups of people praying or exercising.” He also photographed prisons, oil fields and industrial […]
The Atlantic Cities conducted a study of poverty and segregation in major metros across the country, and unsurprisingly, NYC has it pretty bad. The study looked at income and geography to find the cities in which poor people live in the most concentrated, isolated areas, and while New York isn’t the worst — that dubious honor goes […]
