Month: September 2014
The man who says he captured video of the melee with the NYPD in Brooklyn on Sunday told ANIMAL that police provoked the confrontation and he recorded the exchange in case cops tried using a chokehold, invoking the death of Eric Garner. “I saw the cops starting shit and I said ‘Let me film this […]
The graffiti-bombed mansion at 190 Bowery, built in 1898, was originally a bank and according to the New York Times, will likely be turned into condos with commercial space below. Since the late 60’s, the 72-room dwelling has been home to photographer Jay Maisel, who bought it for only $102,000. The insides were a kind […]
The NYCLU released a report today detailing the dismal state of New York’s public defense system. The report focuses on five counties: Onondaga (Syracuse), Suffolk, Ontario, Schuyler and Washington. “In each of these counties, people too poor to afford private attorneys too often appear before judges without a lawyer by their side, or are forced […]
Inspired by researching artificial islands, SABE KST’s conceptual vandalism, paintings of Arcadia, and the work of Gordon Marta Clark, Jack Smith and Anais Nin, this is Mass Arcadia, a new video by artist Miles Pflanz (embedded below, NSFW). Tired of his work being yanked off YouTube and not down with paying Vimeo HD-conversion fees, Pflanz put up his latest video where faux utopians spray painting each other’s junk […]
One of the men arrested in this weekend’s melee with NYPD officers told ANIMAL he is scared to walk the streets now and that he was an innocent bystander caught in the chaos. Edwin Rosario, 46, of Sunset Park, Brooklyn (where the clash with cops took place on Sunday) said that he left his house to go […]
A California man plead guilty this week to charges that he defaced works illegally painted by superstar street artist Banksy in Park City, Utah. David William Noll,36, admitted to vandalizing two pieces that were painted during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, when Banksy’s documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop debuted. At the time, officials in Park City […]
Lee Griggs creates mesmerizing 3D landscapes, reminiscent of a coral reef or psychedelic relief map. Each topography is made up of thousands of individual cones, cylinders or cubes. The final images of these color experiments are rendered in Maya. The artist explains: I basically use a texture map to ‘drive’ the length and color of an […]
Sample gods Eclectic Method have challenged themselves on their latest mash-up, using just a few seconds of Audrey Hepburn saying “I love you” in the movie Charade. “Every pitch shift and jitter in sound has been matched with a corresponding shift and jitter in picture,” Eclectic Method said of the piece. The video and audio are mixed and mashed into […]
“Damian is showing his class the way to make an inverted pentagram. Connect the dots to make one yourself.” So reads the new Activity Book (PDF, embedded below) that the Satanic Temple is handing out to children in Orange County, Florida. The county had recently decided to allow an Evangelical group to disseminate Christian materials in public schools and to censor the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). The […]
Mufid A. Elfgeeh, a Rochester resident, was indicted yesterday and charged with attempting to aid ISIS by helping to send three men to Syria who told him they were planning to “engage in violent jihad.” He was also charged with illegally possessing firearms with silencers and plotting to kill members of the U.S. military. His arrest […]
