Month: December 2014
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Tony DePew. His psychedelic work is unmistakable with its vibrant colors and trippy illustrative style that can be found on the streets of the city by way of hand embellished stickers, wheatpasted posters and painted gates/walls. Name/Alias: Tony […]
A new study about New York’s abundant wildlife has found that bugs are competing with rats for scraps of our food. It’s the “half glass full” scenario for any New Yorker, offering promising news if you hate rats, or, if you’re cynical, confirming the belief that the city is filthy and overrun by more critters […]
Anger over the grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson continues, with New Yorkers joining a national walk out protest. Gathering in Union Square and Times Square, workers and students left their classes and jobs at 12:01 PM Monday in a national demonstration organized around the hashtag #HandsUpWalkOut. The time was significant, as […]
Zazu, Midtown. (Photo: Matt Lancashire) […]
A giant REVS roller stands out amongst some of the other graffiti at the freight yard where VEW painted his tribute to Mike Brown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Quaaludes (methaqualone), the wiggliest sedative-hypnotic staple of ‘70’s discotheques, might be making a retro comeback in Britain. VICE News has obtained statistics of drug seizures by British law enforcement and found an important precursor chemical used to make Quaaludes. Precursors are chemicals needed in the production of another compound. In 2012, British authorities seized a […]
A concerned New Yorker observed a suspicious squirrel this morning in Tompkins Square Park. And since she saw something, she went ahead and said something. But after “getting the runaround” when calling 311, she reached out to EV Grieve to amplify her warning siren: Saw a black squirrel in Tompkins Square Park playground acting very […]
After the famous Jim Powers-decorated light poles — part of Powers’s life’s work known as the “Mosaic Trail” — were removed from Astor Place, many feared that they would be lost forever. Now it’s being reported that discussions have begun to return the landmark artworks. The lamp posts were removed earlier this year as part of the capital […]
You may remember the computer virus Stuxnet, a piece of malware from 2010 believed to be designed as an attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program — but do you recall the I Love You virus from 2000? That piece of malicious code did somewhere between $5.5-8.7 billion in damages to computer systems worldwide, and cost the […]
“I felt like I needed to paint this for the people,” said VEW — a twenty-something graffiti artist from New York City — about the recent Michael Brown tribute he did on a freight train in Brooklyn. While the rest of the country was stuffing its face on Thanksgiving, he snuck into the Bay Ridge […]
