Month: June 2014
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Seattle-based artist Sean Pearson talks about the road, nightmares and his piece “I don’t know where he came from or why.” I’m usually inspired by daydreaming, especially during something exciting, like being on the road. This is how […]
Internet Service Providers like Verizon are really pulling out all the stops in their race to support FCC’s overthrow net neutrality. They have already spent $19 million dollars on lobbying efforts in 2014 alone, and Mother Jones reports on a particularly gross argument by the Verizon lobbyists: Disabled people would allegedly benefit from the end of net neutrality. The […]
Artists adorning walls with their unsanctioned work in Brooklyn should be on alert that it’s not just the NYPD who’s out hunting for them. The Shomrim, an all volunteer force that patrols Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, helped the cops arrest five people for graffiti in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday. All of the […]
A dig site at 50 Bowery has yielded some unexpected artifacts, including an 19th century “elixir of long life,” DNA Info reports. The site was once a German beer garden, and the elixir was found among other old alcohol bottles and remedies like “Dr. Hostetters Stomach Bitters.” Now, the archeologists are trying to recreate these allegedly life-extending drinks. […]
Under Communism, the Russian city of Zarechny did not officially “exist.” The public wasn’t informed of such “closed cities” until 1986, with more than one million people having lived in places that were not even on the map. Slowly, they are being “opened up.” Photographer Ksenia Yurkova, featured in The Calvert Journal, went to Zarechny to document the daily life […]
The crowd-sourced site Travel By Drone allows anyone to upload their aerial drone footage into an online database which will function much like Google Street View. On this site, everyone can share YouTube videos and add the corresponding location. It will appear on the map with a pin where the video footage has been recorded. After […]
“Enjoy the Science,” the newest release from 8 Bit Operators includes Depeche Mode’s greatest hits, as covered by C64-remix, gwEm, Herbert Weixelbaum, Aonami, Bacalao, Gameboy Music Club, Firestarter and more. We kind of wish there wasn’t any singing on it, especially not in auto-tune on ComputeHer’s “Strange Love” but Inverse Phase’s “Behind the Wheel” is pretty great. Stream on Bandcamp. For […]
The city is bolstering its rat extermination program starting next month, adding nine employees to the 45 city inspectors specializing in rodent infestations. A special pilot program has become necessary because heavily infested neighborhoods — West Harlem, Chinatown, the Lower East Side and the South Bronx – haven’t improved from attempts to poison and sterilize the […]
Chinaski, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Coney Island, the home of America’s favorite struggling theme park, opened a new attraction today: the Thunderbolt roller coaster. Unlike its wooden predecessor of the same name that operated on the site for nearly six decades, this one is all made of steel – the latest of promised upgrades. The ride is pretty smooth, with […]
