Month: December 2014
Noted fashion photographer Bill Cunningham once said, “Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.” It seems the designer Anouk Wipprecht has taken that quote literally with her Robotic Spider Dress. Wipprecht created the dress to “ward off threatening social behavior,” by waiving it’s arachnid appendages at anyone who approaches. The designer tells the Creator’s Project, […]
Floppy Cloud lets you play NES and Super Nintendo game Roms on your iPhone by cleverly disguising itself as file managing app. Normally apps like this are prohibited on the Apple’s products and services so expect this to be available for oh say … download it now! It seriously won’t last long. All you have to […]
When I proposed to create a project in which the anonymized women — accounted for as flags or notches in the writings of Bang author Roosh V — have a space to share their perspective on their sexual exchanges with him, I did not expect to end up having a two hour long interview with […]
Tribler, the peer-to-peer decentralized BitTorrent client, recently released an anonymity engine, based on Tor. Tor is free software, originally developed by the US Navy, for online anonymity. However, the people behind Tor have made a cursory cryptanalysis of Tribler. They’ve found severe deficiencies in the encryption. The code that generates the encryption keys is weak, […]
The Federal Aviation Administration has anticipated that you and your loved ones are going to want to operate an unmanned aircraft, aka a drone, this holiday season. In order to keep you “off the naughty list,” as the organization puts it, the FAA has created a video under the banner of Know Before You Fly, […]
Though the NYPD was quick to criticize protesters after a man shot and killed two NYPD officers on Saturday afternoon before killing himself, the details slowly emerging suggest that the killer “was neither a political activist nor a psychotic madman” reports the New York Times. FBI stats dating back to 1945 indicate that about 70 officers […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Alice Mizrachi, a Queens-based painter, educator, and community organizer. Her figurative-style portraits and artwork — that are simply signed AM whether they’re in the gallery or the street — touches on female empowerment and social justice. Name/Alias: AM […]
FreshDirect began construction on its distribution center in the South Bronx on Monday and protestors were present to voice their disapproval of the development project. The planned facility has raised the ire of locals primarily due to its likelihood of increasing pollution in a region that already has extremely poor air quality. For just one example, asthma […]
Irving, Tribeca. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
An unauthorized KORN tribute pops up at the Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center station. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
