Category: Features
This is a livefeed of Ukrainian riot police storming Kiev’s main anti-government camp. What you’re listening to are grenades, fireworks, Molotov cocktails, gunfire and the chants of anti-President Yanukovich activists over the continuous explosions. Espreso TV Livefeed Earlier today, the city saw its most violent clashes since the protest began 12 weeks ago, since the citizens set up giant make-shift […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Jonas Lund talks about We See In Every Direction! a Web browser for collaborative, synchronized surfing made for Rhizome’s online exhibition series The Download. The idea started when Zoë Salditch invited me to do a piece for Rhizome’s The Download. […]
An Easter egg was recently unearthed in the Hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. As posted by Tumblr user chaoscontrolled123 discovered “music written upon the posterior of one of the many tortured denizens.” And so, some 500+ years later, the music student decided to transcribe it “into modern notation, assuming the second line of […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 40°F NIGHT 29°F “Idiom II” group exhibit’s opening reception at Pierogi features chart-like narrative structures like Ward Shelley’s diasporas of Fluxus and A Continuum of Ideological Futility by William Powhida. (7-9pm, […]
The super-producer Hudson Mohawke dropped his seventh-annual Valentine’s Day mix on the world today, and it is every bit as smooth and sexxxy as you’d hoped. At just five minutes in I’ve already heard both Luther Vandross and Five Star, and I am just fine with that. Listen below. […]
ANIMAL’s Game Plan feature 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 Chris Cornell of Paper Dino about Save the Date, a fourth wall-breaking dating game that gets stranger every time you play it. There is […]
“Put some Brooklyn on him!” was one of the first things I heard once the fights started Wednesday night at the Roseland Ballroom, a venue more famous for its music but one which has hosted its share of boxing matches over the years. The Roseland, originally opened in 1919 and at its current location at […]
Sandy Cutrone was riding her bike on Montauk Highway last year when she was hit by a car and broke her shoulder. Cutrone went straight through a green light, and a driver going the opposite way turned left without yielding to incoming traffic. The impact was great enough to crack Cutrone’s helmet. In December, her […]
2C-I is a psychedelic phenethylamine of the 2C family discovered by our lord and savior Alexander Shulgin. The 2C family of drugs are stimulating psychedelic empathogen-entactogens of which, 2C-B is the most well known scion. It’s been called “explosion” or “introspection” and is sometimes sold as mescaline. While 25I-NBOME is a much stronger derivative of […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Greg Leuch talks about WhatColor.IsTheInter.net, presented with support from Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. It sounds cliché, but WhatColor.IsTheInter.net began in the shower sometime in mid-November 2012. I forget exactly what triggered the thought process, but I remember pondering how would […]
