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Remember Game Genie? What if, instead of cracking into video games to help you cheat, it turned them into glitched-out pieces of interactive art? That begins to get at the premise behind illucia, a hardware hack from Chris Novello that allows you to get at a game’s guts and screw them around a bit as […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Alexandra Gorczynski shows us the process behind her piece Aurora at the TRANSFER gallery’s inaugural show. Process GIF: Process USTREAM PART 1 USTREAM PART 2 “A bit blurry about how long it took, but I think maybe 2.5 days/nights. […]
If you don’t actively use the virtual currency Bitcoin, it can be difficult to truly understand some basic facts about it: Just how widely is Bitcoin really used? How often do people make transactions using the currency, and how big is the average payout? Are we talking about the equivalent of petty cash transactions or […]
This is totally normal. Here are some photos of fully grown wolves that have been named Sherchik, Iza and Rombik. See them frolic in the snow within eating distance of children, doing tricks for scraps of snack and strolling through the snow on a leash like they’re domestic dogs or some shit. Also, see one particularly large […]
Cool human being Jack Donaghy Alec Baldwin meets possibly even cooler human being Thom Yorke on the latest episode of Baldwin’s WYNC radio show, Here’s the Thing. In an epic hour-long interview, Baldwin and Yorke chat about all sorts of things, including Radiohead’s history, the two men’s liberal politics, and the grueling nature of being on tour. […]
Williamsburg may be the lucky recipient of more public green space, as the city plans to convert a block of Union Avenue to expand McCarren Park. The stretch sits between the pool and a small, triangular section of the park, and would large enough to house seven basketball courts–at the cost of the block’s 34 […]
Bursts of glitches. Clusters of points. Metal, baby. Check out the new video from the Unstoppable Death Machines for “Trial and Error” directed by Scott Cramer. “We used a Kinect with DSLR and RGBD open source software, along with data glitch art,” Mike Tucci tells ANIMAL. “It’s completely digital in its creation, unlike our last video. The […]
Adding to New York’s long, rich history of people keeping drugs hidden in strange, uncomfortable places, a man at Lincoln Hospital’s psych ward in the Bronx was found with no less than 17 bags of white powder stuffed up his ass. The substance, believed to be cocaine, was found after the patient received an injection […]
Frank, Midtown. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Bunny Rogers and Filip Olszewski were very particular about the color of the twin-size vladmodels.ru, Ukranian Nymphets and H.M.M. H.M.M. H.M.M. H.M.M. twin-size blankets. They wanted each in the exact shade of the average pixel color of a source image — each a watermarked photo of suspect-sounding child-modeling agency site. The seamstresses had to embroider the sites’ satiny logos exactly. […]
