Month: April 2014
On March 29th, 2014, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C. received an aggressively written, pointed letter detailing weaknesses in the current regulations governing the largest banks’ commodities business. Ten days earlier, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation had received a similar one arguing to strengthen the government’s ability to break up too-big-to-fail banks, […]
Lately, all that’s coming from Russia are dashcams, meteorites, homoerotic photos of Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. But let us not forget the rugged DIY spirit of former fellow countrymen! Here’s to you, Mr. Fireman! See the glorious thing that appears to levitate when several fire extinguishers are being wasted at the same time. Listen to the […]
“Good enough to kill a motherfucker!” artist Coby Kennedy said, as he sharpened his New Lots Avenue street sign into a machete with a metal grinder. “I gotta make them the way they’re going to be made in the narrative — ripped off the street and hacked the fuck up.” The “narrative” takes place 400 years […]
You’re in Manhattan and jonesing for a Venti Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino®. Quick, where’s the closest Starbucks? Chances are, it’s four blocks away or less. The data blogger Ben Wellington of I Quant NY plotted the location of every Starbucks on the island, then measured the distance between each Manhattan’s lots and the closest outpost of […]
Aristophanes, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A graffiti-covered abandoned building at Floyd Bennett Field. (Photo: Andy Cush/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The bros at BroBible spotted this supercut of cannabis in cinema, music, and pop culture, from the master of the musical re-edit, Eclectic Method. Cheech and Chong, Half Baked, and Richard Nixon all make appearances, and the whole thing’s set to Dusty Springfield’s stone-cold classic “Son of a Preacher Man.” Watch it above. […]
Coinciding with his first solo show in the Middle East, Richard Serra just unveiled East-West/West-East in Qatar’s Brouq Nature Reserve. It was “definitely one of the most fulfilling pieces” he has done to date, he told ArtInfo. Designboom describes the work: A monumental sculptural installation … approximately 60 kilometers from the capital at doha. Four steel plates […]
Recently, the only street artist the mainstream cares about, Banksy, installed one of his signature stencil pieces, depicting two lovers engrossed in their mobile phones, on public property in his hometown of Bristol. Hours after its location was discovered and announced to the world, sending droves of fans to take photos of it, local Dennis […]
Mtgox, or Magic the Gathering: Online Exchange — formerly the world’s largest and oldest Bitcoin exchange — has been denied bankruptcy protection by a Tokyo court, and will now apply for liquidation said its court appointed administrator Wednesday. Mtgox had been trying for civil rehabilitation — a structured means of paying off creditors while keeping […]
