Month: February 2015
February may have brought New York City a record number of murder-free days, but in January, three birdwatchers came across a gruesome sight: a severed human hand, lying palm up, in Brooklyn’s Gravesend beach. DNAinfo reports that the hand was discovered on the shoreline on Jan. 4. The NYPD investigated further and deduced that it […]
The weeklong parade of mostly useless clothes known as Fashion Week has come to a conclusion in New York. Like previous years, it began and then it ended. In between those two points of time, there was runway shows, corporate events, and snooty parties. It now moves on to other cities and in a few […]
Bartolomeu, Lower East Side. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ME x Clint Mario, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The mentality of drones-as-death-machines has changed as unmanned aircrafts have rapidly emerged in the civilian airspace in the form of toys to delivery vehicles. So much so that the FAA recently had to release a set of rules for operating your quadrocopter. Furthering this mindset of drones as helpful machines is a new nonprofit under […]
There is perhaps nothing that can redeem the Oscars for shutting out people of color from this year’s awards, but if the committee has registered any of the criticism, then maybe its members will abide the request of Harlem gospel singer Roslyn Davis. DNAinfo reports that Davis has launched a Change.org petition requesting that Ledisi […]
For Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, every color had a specific sound. So one must wonder how the abstract painter would react to this animated version of his 1932 painting “Decisive Pink.” Created by two Carnegie Mellon University students, Nivetha Kannan and Sarah Kwan, the animation turns Kandinsky’s oil painting into a multi-dimensional art space in […]
The Dark Web is getting brighter and brighter each day. The news is abuzz with “Memex,” a Defense Department-developed Dark Web search engine. However, there are already two Tor search engines that you can use on the regular web to take a trip into the deep. On both you still get the usual suspects of […]
Despite instructions from federal and state law enforcement agencies, 20 New York school districts have been effectively preventing undocumented immigrant children from enrolling in school. The state attorney general’s office is now requiring these school districts change their enrollment polices, reports the New York Times. The Times in October found that Long Island schools were […]
SPOILER ALERT: ANIMAL has learned that the winner of the $100,000 prize on Oxygen’s all-around terrible “street art” show — sponsored by the equally terrible and ineffective anti-drug outfit D.A.R.E. — is Christian-pastor-dude Cameron Moeberg, aka CAMER1. Down with the Gospel Graffiti Crew, the 33-year-old youth pastor and spoken word artist from San Francisco beat […]
