Month: September 2014
Bruce, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
SEFU’s Noodles. Yummy! (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Martian rover Curiosity, which NASA landed on the Red Plant in 2012, has reached a milestone in its scientific journey. After traversing a variety of terrains on the planet’s surface, including one that proved to be an ancient lake bed that could have once contained life, Curiosity is preparing to climb Mars’ Mount Sharp, […]
Shake Shack, a fast food-ish chain based in NYC, just released a new t-shirt with Staple Design, a creative collective that refuses to give up its pigeon motif. While some of you may be wondering what the fuck hamburgers and milkshakes have to do with a cool-guy brand, stop. You’re thinking too hard. None of […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 77° LOW 62° Sustain-Release electronic music festival in the Catskills, with Ital, Blondes, Aurora Halal, Huerco S. and more. (6pm, $115, Catskills) The 5th Annual CCNY Self-Published Zine and […]
Comedian Paul Gale’s “Why Starbucks Spells Your Name Wrong” video got five million hits in less than three days after being posted on Monday. Everybody loves it. Look, that’s a BuzzFeed gif. Wow. And then it was taken down from YouTube for the cover of a Conway Twitty song. Aw, shit. But it’s embedded below via Facebook. Yey. Based […]
A new study in Current Biology proves our brains can still kind of decipher words while we’re asleep. For the experiment, scientists had participants classify words as either plants or animals while wearing an EEG to record brain activity. For each word, subject tapped a button with either their right or left hands to indicate to which […]
If you thought the story of Michael Brown, Ferguson, and the racist, militarized, out-of-control police was over, a new exhibition on the LES by the art collective Yams reminds you that it’s far from finished. While the intense 24/7 media coverage of Ferguson has receded, this week alone there were several arrests of protestors following an “insulting” proposal […]
Since NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced a pilot program outfitting police officers with body cameras, many were unsatisfied with the demonstration. Gotham Gazette’s Kristen Meriwether tested one of the models in Times Square, on the subway and walking over the Brooklyn Bridge. The VieVu LE3 was provided by the Public Advocate Tish James’ office. For the first video (above), Meriwether had […]
New York commuters are bombarded with advertisements. Capitalizing on this bland, visual onslaught, the freshly launched NO AD app is hijacking ads all over the subway system with alternative imagery, turning them into a sprawling, augmented reality exhibition space. This month, it’s loosely themed around street art and anti-advertising. In the near future, they’ll be collaborating with art and photography […]
