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February 14, 2013 Andy Cush

Each Valentine’s Day since 2007, Hudson Mohawke (one half of TNGHT) has dropped a mix of slow jams for all your romantic needs. Despite the producer’s drastically heightened profile, 2013 was no different: behold the sixth edition of HudMo’s Slow Jams mix, complete with vintage silkiness from the likes of Todd Rundgren, Bobby Caldwell, and Nona […]

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Samer Kalaf

The Harlem Shake craze is almost at its apex, but now Harlem’s Azealia Banks has chosen to join in and rap over Baauer’s track while the meme’s still hot. Listen below. Update: The SoundCloud link has stopped functioning, but here’s a YouTube rip. Update #2: The YouTube video’s down now, so uh, sorry. (Photo: Serjao […]

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Eugene Reznik

Over 800 artists from from places as far as South Korea and New Zealand, age five to 70-something, some renowned, other less so, submitted 2,400 MetroCard-based works to “Single Fare 3.” “With the exception of a couple of pieces that showed up totally damaged, every single thing we got was hung,” exhibit organizer Jean-Pierre Roy tells […]

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Andy Cush

“A” is for Ant-Man, “B” is for Beast, “C” is for Captain America, and so on and so on. Designer Mike Boon created two parallel alphabets–upper-case for heroes, lower-case for villains–highlighting the various characters of the Marvel Comics universe. T-shirts, prints, and various other ephemera are available here and here. I’ve got most of them […]

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Andy Cush

Designer Derrick Cruz created this appropriately creepy, minimal bust of Ian Curtis, which shows the late Joy Division singer emerging, face-only, from a 10-inch solid porcelain block. He’s also made perhaps the artsiest Kickstarter video of all time in hopes of getting the thing funded, which you can watch above. Cruz is no stranger to […]

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Julia Dawidowicz

The early sixties were a pretty sexy time in the US. A decade after Alfred Kinsey conducted his sexuality studies, Americans were enthralled by the steamy affair between JFK and Marilyn Monroe, everyone wanted to get invited to a Playboy Club party, and the Free Love movement was rapidly subverting the prudish “values” of the […]

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Samer Kalaf

The Christopher Dorner rampage is over (although that charred body is still unidentified!), but if, for some reason, you want some Christopher Dorner merch to immortalize the horrific and fascinating tale of the cop killer with a grudge, it exists on Etsy. Using the scale of quality of clothing created for a domestic terrorist, these […]

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Andy Cush

Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week, we’ll take a look at David McCallum’s “The Edge,” which spawned Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” and Masta Ace’s “No Regrets.” “The Edge, “David McCallum (1967): […]

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Andy Cush

A group of researchers led by grad student/metalhead Jesse Silverberg took it upon themselves to analyze the physics of mosh pits, pulling videos from YouTube and using software designed to look at particle physics. What they found was astounding–that the statistical distribution of speeds of various moshers matched that of particles moving freely in a […]

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Marina Galperina

TL;DR Vine is an App. It’s like Instagram for 6 second videos with sound. It’s been just slapped NC-17 rating, so we’re throwing the Unofficial Vine NC-17 #VeryShortFilmFest without asking them. Send us your arty and/or porny Vine with the hashtag #VeryShortFilmFest or email us a 6 second video with sound to tips@animalnewyork.com before Tuesday, February 19th. Our […]

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