Month: June 2014
Mario Tama, a staff photographer for Getty Images, first caught my eye a few months ago with this disturbing photo above taken in what the caption calls Rio de Janeiro’s “Cracolandia” (Read: “Crackland” or “Dope City”). In addition to the complexity of his layered compositions, the ‘daily life’ photos he’s been filing from Brazil ever […]
There’s brownies, chocolate bars, butane hash oil, you can smoke, you can vape, now there’s another way to take cannabis, vaginally. Foria, made by a California collective The Aphrodite Group, has made a cannabis infused “sensual enhancement oil” that can purported enhance sexual pleasure. As “Stacy” says on a testimonial posted on their site: “I had […]
A bill criminalizing “revenge porn” has been passed by the New York Senate. “Revenge porn” is a known tactic of terrible people who distribute explicit images as a form of cyber-bullying, often including the victim’s personal information. The bill criminalizes the dissemination of sexually intimate images or images of intimate parts of another person without that […]
The Underground Pigeon, Williamsburg Bridge. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“I’m a street bomber, but I like doing artistic work.” –TRAP (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
According to a new study by the European Association of Geochemistry, the earth is 60 million years older than scientists have last estimated, give or take 20 million years. What does that mean for Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Cosmic Calendar? Science Daily explains: Guillaume Avice and Bernard Marty analysed xenon gas found in South African and Australian quartz, which had […]
Bras are the worst. Bra shopping sucks. Victoria’s Secret carries only a select range of sizes, regular department stores’ lighting make you feel like one giant red irritated blob and fancy boutiques where something might actually fit are prohibitively expensive. But us boob-carriers might finally have something to give us hope, Wired reports. True&Co is a […]
“I don’t even think it’s a crime,” TRAP tells ANIMAL, walking through his home-borough of Queens. He is confident, casual, as if he isn’t about to catch a tag on the underside of the bridge in broad daylight. Since 1979, he’s been spray painting New York City streets, evolving his unique handstyle and perfecting his […]
A new study proved that “internet trolls” are just as terrible offline as they are online. The study focused on online harassment behavior as it could be traced to personality characteristics in “real life.” Slate gave us a run down of the characteristics the researchers were measuring: The research, conducted by Erin Buckels of the […]
The Olympic Restaurant on Delancey and Essex has been on a month-to-month lease for awhile, but now it seems certain that it will be demolished in the next few months and one of the best pieces put up (legally) by Parisian artist Invader is likely to get destroyed along with it. UPDATE: Invader’s spokesperson reached out to […]
