Category: Takeover
Putin has just signed new laws requiring individual bloggers to register their identity with the government, among other restrictions on internet freedom and privacy. Bloggers will now be treated as “media outlets” and be subject to similar regulations, vague guidelines and severe punishments. This is your five-minute explainer, with information culled from several English and Russian-language […]
Artist Leo Selvaggio is attempting a crowd sourced anti-surveillance solution and using himself as a martyr for the cause. URME (pronounced phonetically) will allow its users to “become” Selvaggio to facial recognition software. His technique is simple: paper or 3D-printed (if you’re fancy) prosthetic masks of his face will trick cameras into recognizing him instead of you. […]
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Jarmusch made a vampire ☆*:.｡. o☆*･゜ﾟ･ movie ･゜ﾟ･*☆o .｡.:*☆ so he can relish immortal-like in each spinning overhead shot, immaculate hoarder sets, blissfully druggy ceremonial blood drinking scenes, the aching swell of SQÜRL and Josef Van Wissem’s music, waxing monologues about culture, and like this really good long relationship ♥｡. JIM JARMUSCHNESS: 2.5 out of 5.0 […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Lebanon-born Brooklyn-based artist Ramsey Nasser talks about his Arabic programming language artwork قلب . Arabic programming languages with the honest goal of bringing coding to a non-Latin culture have been attempted in the past, but have failed without […]
There are two certainties in life: New Year’s Eve will never live up to the hype and you will constantly be surrounded by people waxing nostalgic about the good old days. Unfortunately for the good old days, they weren’t all that good. No matter what era you pick in New York City’s history, it has […]
“Jobs are modern day slavery,” Pastor Brown told me at the annual May Day protest gathering in Union Square. Others suggested getting rid of NATO and promoting “psychoanalytic education.” There were socialists, secularists, anarchists, groups representing people of the Dominican Republic, Palestine, the Philippines and though it was very loud, the overarching message was clear: Raise […]
Tupac’s tattoos on blobs of white skin, tucked upright into a pile, slumping onto a shore, dragging a tapestry, fat folds riddled with puss bubbles, cartoon eyes dripping out of rainbow bruises, and feathers on top — here comes Tupac Discovers America, one of the new paintings in Christian Rex van Minnen’s “Glazed and Confused” series, on view […]
“I sort of avoid the A-word. I’ve come to the decision that having fun can be a political act. I actually consider what I do as more in the vein of comedy. No one has to justify jokes,” Jason Eppink tells ANIMAL, seated in the kitchen of the Queens art collective the Flux Factory, avoiding […]
When U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm was arrested on federal criminal charges Monday, it was not questionable campaign finances that did him in, nor his televised threats against an NY1 reporter, but alleged tax evasion at Healthalicious, a small Upper East Side restaurant the congressman operated for a time before taking office. With such an inauspicious […]
Recently, Rhett Jones’ talked to us about his film The Villains — an adaptation of Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (itself an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “The Possessed”) about a group of young and flawed aspiring activists, set in modern day Brooklyn, their Maoist theories replaced with Marshall McLuhan and new media idealism. Today, the Creator’s Project debuted the glitched out datamosh trailer […]
