Month: June 2014
Have you ever gazed down at your googly-eyed pet rock at summer camp and wish you could experience the world as it did, feel what it feels and communicate with it in the infinite language of geology? Your childhood dreams are finally becoming a reality! Rock Simulator 2014, from Strange Panther Games, will be on Steam […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Michael Molinari of Studio Bean about Choice Chamber, a game that gets broadcast online to live viewers who can influence events. Not every game […]
The new Bompas & Parr exhibit, FUNLAND: Pleasures And Perils Of The Erotic Fairground, is opening today at the Museum of Sex. The installations offer stimulations for all the senses, including a bouncy house made of massive boobs and something called “Grope Mountain.” There’s a mirrored “Tunnel of Love” that leads to a metaphorical g-spot […]
NASA has approved an independent project that will allow a crowd-sourced message to be sent into space via the New Horizon’s space probe. When NASA’s New Horizons mission finishes studying Pluto next summer, the data will be streamed from Earth to the spacecraft to create a digital record. The New Horizons will then take with […]
Several paintings and sculptures inside the Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center have been spray-painted with obscenities, the NYPD says, suspecting an inside job motivated by labor disputes. “There was little or no permanent damage,” said a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Opera stated. “The New York City Police department is investigating.” Cops have also stated that the vandalism doesn’t […]
A statue erected in Kazakhstan to celebrate local author Abai Qunanbaiuli and Russian exile and scientist Yevgeny Mikhaelis was removed, just a day later, after residents complained that it looked like the two were taking “a selfie” with a mobile phone. This perceived reference to social media was not to the public’s liking that the […]
Despite a marked reduction in the amount of stop-and-frisks conducted by city cops, overall crime has decreased, but there has been a slight increase in shootings this year and so the NYPD is going to study the data to see if there’s any correlation. As noted by the Wall Street Journal, Police Commissioner Bratton has […]
Elliot, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This fucking guy at the press preview of Jeff Koons’ retrospective at the Whitney. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The documentary A Brony Tale is about men who like My Little Pony, which is an imaginative quirky cartoon for kids with some nice stuff in it. In the documentary, Ashleigh Ball, the voice of Applejack and Rainbow Dash on the 4th generation installment of Hasbro’s My Little Pony, goes to a brony convention and faces her very […]
