Month: April 2014
Isaiah Martinez, a 15-year-old from Brooklyn, was shot in the foot Saturday for trying to cut the line at a Bushwick Foot Locker. Martinez was after a pair of Nike Foamposite Pro Yeezys, which was released over the weekend. The alleged shooter was 14. “There were people camped out for the sneakers and Isaiah tried […]
In the late 1970s, Dan Witz began painting hummingbirds on walls around downtown Manhattan. The work — created illegally, with acrylic paint and brushes — so predated any notion of “street art” that the term hadn’t even been codified yet. It was years before artists like Keith Haring would attract a mainstream audience to the […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Brooklyn-based artist Am Schmidt talks about Fierce (Untitled), an endurance performance where she wore Abercrombie & Fitch graphic shirts and Fierce cologne every day for one year inspired by Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performance, Sincerity by R. Jay Magill […]
The alcohol blog Bevlaw found a release by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau that outed “Palcohol.” Their approved product is “powdered alcohol.” Update: The bureau made the approval “in error.” No powdered alcohol for you. BUT WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT? It’s a family of simple carbohydrates called cyclodextrins. Cyclodextrins are molecular doughnuts (or cronuts if you’re willing […]
There’s no denying that Citi Bike is in some financial trouble, but a new report suggests that its future might be brighter than originally reported. The bike share program incurred much of its costs this year during Hurricane Sandy, when a major warehouse was flooded and equipment destroyed, and in expenses related to getting the […]
81 Bowery is one of New York’s last lodging houses. Chinese immigrants, most of them working in construction and restaurant service industry, live communally in 64-square-foot spaces on the fourth floor, partitioned by makeshift walls and roofed with wire cages. Photographer Annie Ling on 81 Bowery: “You’re the same age as my daughter… I have not […]
Shenk, Chinatown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
PLASMA SLUGS’ GRAFFITI ART COLONY ARTIST’S NOTEBOOK: RHETT JONES CEX’S SHAMANEATER: THE SOUNDTRACK TO AN IMAGINARY PS2 GAMELISTEN IN: ODONIS ODONIS MADEYOU A PLAYLIST ART OF WAR: COBY KENNEDY TURNS BROOKLYN STREET SIGNS INTO POST-APOCALYPTIC WEAPONS OCCUPY WONK STREET HERE’S THE ELECTRIC CAR THAT COULD REPLACE NYC’S HORSE-AND-CARRIAGES BROOKLYN ARTIST BALLIN’ HERE’S HEROIN ON “DARK-WEB GOOGLE” THIS […]
KUMA says “watch this” on the other side of an abandoned building at Floyd Bennett Field. (Photo: Andy Cush/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Safe travels this weekend. #FollowedTheRabbit (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
