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Brooklynite Mike Sorisi created Knicklyn as a way to give a home to people like him: diehard hoops fans from Kings County who’d rather stay true to NYC’s original team than jump ship to the Nets. Within days of setting up shop–selling t-shirts and stickers on Big Cartel–Sorisi received a cease-and-desist letter from none other than […]
Police raided a Borough Park warehouse this weekend and found 30,000 cartons of counterfeit cigarettes from China, masquerading as Marlboros, Newports and Camels. For those keeping track, at 20 cigarettes to a pack and 10 packs to a carton, that makes for a staggering 6 million cigarettes–a $4.5 million bust. “Selling this poison… is a […]
Ted, JFK. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
RIP Gowanus Dolphin. (Photo: Wesley & Brandon Rosenblum/Flickr) […]
French animator Joseph Vasconi created the above short, in which each of 2012’s 12 months gets a single second of bold, minimalistic slide of animation. In January, we see a cruise ship tipping over (remember that?), in 2012 we see Kim Dotcom going behind bars, and so on. There are a few pretty cheeky surprises in […]
Remember the first time you tasted freeze-dried astronaut ice cream from the science museum gift shop, wondering… Where does space food come from? Why does it taste so funny? What is it like to eat while drifting through the cosmos? NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory (SFSL) is responsible for making sure that astronauts can munch on a […]
Calm down. Those aren’t real cigarrettes. Photographer Frieke Janssens used chalk, cheese sticks, candles and incense to stage these fictional and yet, gracefully unnerving portraits of smoking children. She says she was prompted by the viral speared of videos of East-Asian toddler smokers on the internet, as well as complaints that the Belgium-based photographer heard from […]
This week, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the winner of a contest to design the future of NYC living — 300-some-odd-square-foot micro apartments, packing in more people into smaller spaces with higher ceilings and still comically high rents. (Bloomberg plans to skirt legislation that prohibits building new apartments smaller than 400 square feet by constructing the first […]
From the people who brought you that feature-length supercut of NYC destruction comes Police Mortality, a feature-length supercut of police violence and brutality. Check out the trailer above. “It’s about an existential crisis in the NYPD that results in terrorism, communism, OWS and total freedom,” the film’s creators told ANIMAL via email. “It stars Will Smith, Bruce […]
Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg GOT YOUR FACE! No, really. Remember that strand of hair you left on in the bathroom stall, that piece of gum you dropped in a bodega, the cigarette butt you chucked on the side of the street? Yoink. With the help of the community biolab at Genspace in Brooklyn, Dewey-Hagborg build a 3D modeling software that analyzing the […]
