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This is what rap beef looks like in the social media age: formerly friendly-seeming MCs exchange not-so-friendly words on Twitter, a track is dropped, another track is dropped, and another track is dropped, all in the scope of about 24 hours. “Shut the Fuck Up” is the latest from Angel Haze, and the hasty construction […]
Remember Daito Manabe? The Tokyo-based artist who hooked up his face to a series of electrical wires, which stimulated muscles, choreographing his many twitches and blinks to music? Oh yeah. That was fun. The Creator’s Project goes further into hacking the human body and beyond with this video portrait of Daito himself. See how his interests in […]
Here’s another fresh “all time 10” video from All Time 10s, yey. They’ve shown us a round-up of famous plundered body parts, among other things, and now, here they are with the 10 most important numbers that you were too preoccupied with whatever to learn in high school. From Avogadro’s Constant, to Speed of Light, to the Golden Ratio… […]
A review of today in ANIMAL so far: rap music, art-damaged punk, and vaguely unsettling, abstract video works. Now, for something that combines all three: noise-rap crew Death Grips created this 12-minute, mostly silent film to accompany “Come Up and Get Me,” the leadoff track of their latest album, NO LOVE DEEP WEB. The film’s moody […]
When Art.sy first emerged as a start-up, there were several attention grabbing points, including their Pandora-like Art Genome Project to guide your cruising (and purchasing) experience of 21,000+ artworks from over 4,500 artists, as per your personal taste pegged to 1211+ characteristics (“genes”). And, of course, that name. Such a cute name — “the shortest spellable English language domain that […]
The fastest-escalating rap beef of all time continues today, with the release of Azealia Banks’ “No Problems,” in response to Angel Haze’s “On the Edge.” On first listen, Angel wins handily. Azealia basically dropped a boilerplate Azealia song–all ravey siren synths and stuttering triplet flows–which, removed from the context of this Twitter-fueled feud, probably wouldn’t even […]
Think you have patience? Watch The Deep End, a new hand-drawn animation from Jake Fried, then get back to me. What must have taken hours upon hours to complete races by in a mere 60 seconds, as eyebrows sprout airplanes and snakes become tongues. Fried lists his materials as ink, white-out, and coffee, though it’s […]
Everyone’s favorite LA-via-Berlin-via-Brooklyn-via-LA art punks will be bringing their signature brand of dissonance and paranoia to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this May. Details on the site-specific performance are relatively scant, but we do know that the band will be taking to the Met’s Temple of Dendur, a reconstructed, 2000-year old Egyptian religious structure–which, for […]
Fractals are only still exciting if you’re a stoned teenager, says Bruce Sterling — cyberpunk hero, sci-fi novelist and active new media commentator. Watch his digital image spike with garish clashes of color as he explains that what you found “mind-blowing and psychedelic” back in the day — because it’s “spiky” with “garish clashes of color” — has […]
The NYPD recently put an end to a technically legal but ethically dubious practice put into place by 76th Precinct Commander Jeffery Schiff: using Twitter to publicly disseminate pictures and names of released convicts spotted in Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus, and Cobble Hill. Though the information is public, to spread it in such an […]
