Category: Features
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 Aran Koning about Please Be Nice 🙁, a game that demonstrates exactly why we can’t have nice things. The creator of Please Be Nice […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Ekaterinburg-based urban intervention and street artist Tima Radya talks about Figure #2: Game — a giant, dynamic sculpture welded from steel, lifted by cranes and exploding with two billion ruble bills. (Translated from Russian.) I wanted to show the project […]
Here’s your chance to make good on that promise you made to your friend who’s always emailing songs to you. Play My Inbox turns your Gmail account into a playlist, collecting every YouTube and SoundCloud link you have in one place for easy listening. As Evolver.fm points out, you have to give the app access […]
How many times have I held someone’s hair or pushed away a way too affectionate hug because of you? Yes you, Four Loko — the vile combination of 12% malt liquor, 260mg of caffeine, and a pile of other crap that is an equivalent of shotgunning three beers and chasing with a venti black extra […]
I’ve played wizard chess against a demon king. I’ve had space ship battles that rival Star Wars. I’ve “sat” in a virtual movie theater with my actual butt planted firmly in a chair in a back room at a technology conference. I’ve even ascended Game of Thrones’ towering wall—and fallen down the other side. I’ve […]
De La Soul are suddenly on the forefront of music distribution. The classic hip hop group, who haven’t released a physical album since 2004’s underrated The Grind Date, put most of their records online for free download in February. And now, they’ve released a new mixtape exclusively via BitTorrent. Well, that “new” part needs a bit of a […]
Etizolam or “etizzy” is a benzodiazepine-like drug that produces the five characteristic benzo effects: relax, don’t worry, sleep, get loose with it, and don’t have a seizure. Molecularly, it’s quite similar to benzos like Klonopin, Xanax, or phenazepam, but the benzene ring that makes them “benzos” is replaced with a thiophene ring, making etizolam a thienodiazepine […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Hudson, NY-based artist Parker Shipp shares a vast collection of notes about her sculpture HUSK, inspired by natural disasters, ubi sunt, Japanese Gutai and the Neolithic sculptures of Nevalı Çori and Göbekli Tepe. HUSK is currently on view […]
Is the dramatic death of bitcoin’s oldest exchange Mt.Gox and the subsequent hacking of CoinEx getting you down? Do you need a little pick-you-up to get re-inspired by the possibilities of crypto-currency? Do you live in Europe? Because we hear this Yellow Bitcoin is good stuff. (Please don’t die.) Someone from Reddit just encountered it in the restroom of a […]
“Post No Bills” notices on construction sites are so ubiquitous in the city, they are largely ignored. But, individually, they’re sort of interesting in their variations of fonts, applications and the amount of vandalism they’re subjected to. I went around Manhattan — through 42nd Street in Midtown to Lafayette in NoHo and over through SoHo via Houston down to […]
