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When we did our roundup of ridiculous photos from Mayor Bloomberg’s Flickr account last month, we grabbed a few of the images from the annual Inner Circle dinner–NYC’s over-the-top, broadway-themed answer to the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner. This year’s event went down Saturday night, and while no bits were quite as rich as the […]
Charles, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
While attempting to investigate a mysterious grouping of balloons in Gowanus, Vanishing New York stumbled upon an even deeper mystery. (Photo: Vanishing New York) […]
“No, I didn’t. But they’re pretty great.” That’s what artist Tom Sanford told ANIMAL when we noticed a similarity between his fleshy, parodic style (see celebs on a stripper, right) and that of these “controversial” Ford of India ads (see gagged and tied celebs/strippers in trunks, left and center). The rapey Russ Meyer-esque aesthetics of Berlusconi […]
“Electrosmog” is what artist Jean-Pierre Aube calls the electromagnetic fields generated by the radio frequency spectrum used by telecommunication systems. Though we can’t see it, electrosmog lurks in every city — it’s essential for everyone from emergency public transportation services to you and me texting each other. Fascinated by the idea of this invisible “pollution” […]
Ryoji Ikeda’s newest stunning project superposition combines his classic hypnotic, pulsating, pure data visualisations with a live, interactive element. Watch as “operators” interrupt his scrolling code and calibrating sine waves with projections of them live-punch-filling vintage forms, surveying heat maps of mysterious geology and solving crossword puzzles. superposition is a project about the way we understand the reality of nature on […]
What’s Montana up to these days? Making use of dead animals that got hit by vehicles! The Senate voted 33-15 in favor of the law allowing the roadkill meat to be donated to charities and fed to the needy if the animal is salvageable. For the record, I’d totally eat elk that was clipped by […]
British television network ITV recently commissioned a documentary about Now That’s What I Call Music, the second-most iconic popular music compilation of all time (behind only Pure Moods, of course). Produced by Reef Television, the house behind such masterpieces as The Grape Escape, Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses, and Britain’s First Photo Album Presented by John Seargant, the film will presumably tell […]
California weed-smokers no longer have to go through the grueling inconvenience of dragging themselves to a dispensary. Hurray, weed vending machines. At least three dispensaries in L.A. are already using the technology, and several companies, such as Orange County’s Dispense Labs, have begun marketing different products to weed shops throughout the Golden State. Dispense Labs’ machines […]
This trailer for the upcoming We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks documentary looks legit. Alex Gibney also directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and Client 9, so, yes, it’s probably legit. Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets: The […]
