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The Brooklyn Public Library appears to have taken some design inspiration from TRNDY BNDS and FSHN LBLS for its vowel-eschewing new logo. Not to be Mr. Conservative Spelling-Police, but shouldn’t an institution that promotes literacy at least get the spelling of its own name right in its logo? Plus, anyone who’s anyone knows that if you’re […]
Vern, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Wear and tear has reduced MTA’s “If you see something, say something” campaign into mere gibberish. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Rutherford Chang really likes the Beatles’ 1968 self-titled album, colloquially known as the “White Album.” So much so, in fact, that he’s amassed over 650 first-pressings of the record, and is actively seeking more with “We Buy White Albums,” his new exhibit at Recess Gallery. Chang has established an “anti-store” for the album, in […]
So, this is a bit conflicting. Here’s a recently released book from photographer Scott Hocking: BAD GRAFFITI. Ahem ahem. BAD GRAFFITI is a current photography series focusing on the vulgar, juvenile, poorly scrawled, often misspelled, ignorant, ridiculous, hilarious, bad-ass, so-bad-its-good, under-the-radar, and generally dismissed as shitty graffiti that I love throughout Detroit. For one thing, there’s a […]
They’re Swedish as hell and they’re not going to take this anymore. The student-populated Flogsta neighborhood of Uppsala, Sweden has a tradition. Every evening at 10pm, they commence with the “the Flogsta scream.” It’s some sort of a communal primal scream therapy, or possibly, a remembrance ritual of a 70’s student suicide. Whatever it is, it’s […]
Number-crunching Austrian artist Peter Jellitsch was inspired by the internet to create the above sculpture, but not in the nostalgic/free associative/more-is-more way that’s typical of much net art–Jellitsch was simply interested in signal strength. For 45 days, the artist used a radio-wave-measuring device to read the strength of the Wi-Fi network at the Bleecker Street […]
Tom Waits, your favorite inimitable creaky crooner, is publishing a very special, very exclusive, very limited-edition collaborative book with photographer/singer Anton Corbijn, dubbed “Waits/Corbijn.” Only 6,600 copies will be available on May 8th. The Waits/Corbijn will feature 30 years of Tom Waits being very Tom Waits, spanning 272 pages of Corbijn portraits. Also, there’ll be Waits’ […]
Ever since flood waters from Hurricane Sandy knocked out power to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum complex, thoroughly deflating Space Shuttle Enterprise’s cozy inflatable home, the prototype orbiter has sat on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck. As ANIMAL reported, this is not a good thing because the shuttle is not equipped to withstand […]
In his latest video, for no-nonsense M.I.C. Tyson cut “Genesis of the Omega,” Sean Price dons lumberjack gear, takes to the woods, and chops shit up while an innocent-looking, hogtied girl fearfully looks on. P never actually does the deadly deed, but the grindhouse vibe lends the video a violently grimy feel. […]
