Month: June 2014
Artist, filmmaker, and Spring Breaker eternal Harmony Korine has recently released this ad for Addict by Dior. It features the fancy-teen-on-ecstasy chic of model Sasha Luss, who goes Alice Through The Looking Glass, followed by some foggy, abstract raving. Then she hops around in a room full of dangling, slightly phallic, rainbow-hued flora, tugging on the flowers and rubbing them on her […]
A group of small, blue and white birds have been harassing the workers of an air-conditioning store in Woodside, Queens. For about a week, they have been swooping down at people coming in and out of the store, pecking them. One bird has been attempting to forcefully nest in an employee’s hair. Another worker told […]
Ashutosh, Times Square. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
William Basinski played his recent work Cascade at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn last night. The sold out performance of the evening-long work was accompanied by visuals — a field of bright blue blurs, dulling, darkening, slowly bursting in small flares. The single looped element of the work shared that glow — a softened, distorted piano, a […]
In 1980’s London, Bob Mazzer worked as a projectionist in a porn theater. He began photographing scenes on his commute to and from work. These photos of everyday life are now artifacts of a unique cultural era. “Every day I travelled to King’s Cross and back. Coming home late at night, it was like a […]
“They say time heals all wounds. That’s utter bullshit.” So begins the trailer for Ragnar Bragason’s new film Metalhead. After her brother dies in a tragic farming accident, Hera Karlsdottir grieves by finding solace in his heavy metal records and her new dreams of becoming a rockstar. See her practice gloomily in a farmhouse, burn shit and try, […]
“The local disco is where you go to get drunk, make out, dance and sometimes fight,” says photographer Andrew Miksys who spent 10 years photographing village discos in Lithuania. His photos peer into a desperate tenderness, a precious sort of gaudiness and a sense of danger. As the Lithuanian youth flees the countryside to bigger cities, to Western Europe and […]
Hershey’s is suing Colorado-based weed edibles manufacturer Mari`juanka LLC for infringement and dilution of their brand, ABC Denver reports. The legal edibles are parodies of famous Hershey’s candies like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and York Peppermint Patties. The lawsuit alleges: Defendants, who are well aware of the fame and popularity of these Hershey products and marks, […]
In Harlem last week, NYPD officers arrested 40 people suspected to be associated with two rival gangs in the area. The arrests took place during a massive raid of two project buildings. On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, Daryl Khan, New York bureau chief of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange and a CUNY journalism professor, reported on […]
