Category: Features
From Lacplesis Technology, here is LT-ML002 — “a pirated music legislation software.” Just insert a portable USB media device, and LT-ML002 will locate all you mp3s, cut them up and rearrange them. “You get sounds of your favorite songs in new unique compositions,” no copyright infringement intended! Like this: Lacplesis Technology (Andris Vetra and Artis Kupriss in collaboration with programmer Viesturs Kavacs) explains, in an […]
Opponents of cannabis legalization are turning to academics with impressive resumes and titles to push the line that cannabis — the drug with not a single known case of deadly overdose — is unsafe and dangerous. Vice has dug into the open secret of conflict of interest and financial disclosures and found that many of […]
Finley, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Jordan, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Aphex Twin dropped his first new track in 13 years on YouTube today. You can listen below. Maybe more notably than anything it features a lot of vocals, which is kind of rare for him. If they are actual words, they’re mangled or unintelligible. This comes on the heels of his launching a blimp over London […]
Jonas Lund‘s exhibit “Studio Practice” opens in Amsterdam this week, but none of the work is “finished” yet. Instead of making a bunch of stuff and hanging it in a clean white cube, Lund has hired other artists to follow his 300-page guidebook. They’re making objects in the gallery under constant live-streaming surveillance. As each work is completed, a respected fourteen-person panel […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Ubisoft Montpellier’s Paul Tumelaire and Yoan Fanise about Valiant Hearts: The Great War, an honest game about World War I. Valiant Hearts: The Great […]
Sheldon, Greenpoint. (Photo: *Bitch Cakes*) […]
Bryan, Fort Greene. (Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Michael Green is attempting to sell the world’s most expensive animated GIF on eBay as we speak, with one watcher and zero bids. This is the second time he’s tried. The first sale failed late last night. Green’s GIF is a reference to Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog sculptures, one of which (the orange one) became the […]
