Category: Takeover
Martha, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
To celebrate the release of Yoav Litvin’s book “Outdoor Gallery,” the Brooklyn art exhibit featured works from more than 40 artists and included 3 collaborative murals and films from DEGA. “The book is my kind of document of my adventures in New York city,” Litvin tells ANIMAL. “I grew up here in the ’80s, so all the […]
“As far as the building owners go, they seem good. They have been helpful and fair as of now,” Lit Lounge founder and owner Erik Foss tells ANIMAL. “I can tell you this, it’s much more relaxed compared to Manhattan.” Blackbook reported that after 12 years as a Manhattan staple, Lit Lounge is getting a “Bushwick” […]
Dietrich, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
As New Yorkers mourn and celebrate the late actor, director and writer Harold Ramis, some are visiting the “Ghostbusters firehouse” in TriBeCa to pay their respects. Aside from flowers and candles, they’ve been leaving some interesting oddities — Nestle Crunch Bars, Twinkies, fake petri dishes of “spores, mold and fungus” and other Ghostbusters inside joke-based tributes. See it […]
PornMD — a search engine that lets you search multiple porn sites for very specific XXX content — has launched a new feature. You can now see what people are searching for, in real time. It’s horrifying, enlightening and kind of inspiring. So, ANIMAL has just commissioned several digital artists and published authors to write us […]
The MtGox Bitcoin Exchange is dead. Their website is a “sorry we’re closed” message. Yesterday they deleted all their tweets. Their old office is empty and their new office is a virtual office — a PO Box with a secretary. The sudden collapse of MtGox has left MtGox investors with nothing and cost 15% for investors on other exchanges in […]
The most hated statue in Sofia, Bulgaria has been painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, in solidarity with the revolution and the deadly protests in the former Soviet Republic. It is, essentially, a gigantic bronze relief to remind the Bulgarian people about an invading Soviet forces that crushed and “liberated” the country from its […]
Remo, NoHo. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
As a Muslim, I’m calling out this latest decision by the Fatwa Committee under the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the United Arab Emirates. One-way trips to Mars are against Islam? That’s some interstellar bullshit. Nice attempt at trying to hijack the hot topic headline though. “Such a one-way journey poses a real risk to […]
