Month: December 2014
In a cooperative neighborhood Christmas light display that would make Clark Griswold green with envy, the residents of this southwestern U.S. suburb synced all their lights up to Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s classic track Wizards Of Winter. They then shot the whole thing with a drone. That’s one way around the FAA’s current restrictions on private drone flight: […]
Anyone who’s ever been on the Cyclone in Coney Island can tell you that if you want to feel the pit in your stomach on a dangerous and poorly constructed carnival ride, there’s just nothing better than a rickety wooden roller coaster. Students at MIT took that sensibility all the way recently, constructing their own wooden […]
New York City councilmembers are pretty pissed with Uber, so it’s not incredibly surprising that one councilman has proposed a free taxi e-hail app that would compete with private companies like Uber and Lyft. Councilman Ben Kallos has proposed legislation that would allow New Yorkers to e-hail yellow and green cabs without worrying about surge […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile ChrisRWK. Hailing from Staten Island, Chris started doing graffiti at a young age and then developed his skills into a more evolved, fine art style and created a whole cast of signature, white-eyed characters. He later founded RWK […]
Protests for Eric Garner continued for a sixth night in New York City, prompting a crowd to hold a die-in at Barclay’s Center during a Brooklyn Nets and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game. The demonstration coincided with a visit from British royalty Prince William and Kate Middleton, creating a surreal scene. Outside, protesters outside chanted, ““I […]
Police responding to the stabbing of an Israeli student in a Brooklyn synagogue shot and killed the suspect after he refused to drop a knife, reports the Daily News. The man, identified as Calvin Peters, reportedly screamed, “I want to kill the Jew!” when he re-entered the basement of the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters early Tuesday. Peters reportedly stabbed 22-year-old […]
Leopold, High Line. (Photo: Steven Severinghaus) […]
Police State USA, Bed-Stuy/Bushwick border. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Corrections Officer Carol Lackner has been charged with falsifying business records and offering a false instrument for filing; both charges are related to Lackner’s lying about the circumstances in the death of inmate Jerome Murdough. The two main charges are felonies, but Lackner has also been charged with various misdemeanors. Murdough, a military veteran who battled mental illness […]
The agriculturally rich state of California is no stranger to droughts, but according to a new study reported by Science Daily, the current two-year drought is the state’s worst in 1,200 years. “This is California–drought happens,” stated co-author Daniel Griffin, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of […]
