Category: Takeover
When Bill de Blasio addressed his decision not to close New York City schools for yesterday’s snowstorm, he pointed to history, noting that the city has only closed schools for snow 11 times since 1978. “Unlike some cities, we don’t shut down in the face of adversity,” he argued. “I’m going to make decisions based […]
The MTA recently unleashed their modern, interactive On the Go! kiosks at Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal, as well as Bowling Green, Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center and Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Ave subway stops. The touchscreen kiosks look like 47-inch iPads and provide directions and subway schedules. I stopped by the newly installed kiosks at Grand Central and people seem to be somewhat […]
Inspired by these illustrations, the game developer Cocoalasca created Sesame Street Fighter, a delightful HTML5 game that mashes up, yes, Sesame Street and Street Fighter. You play as one of several character amalgamations, including Bert/Ryu, Ernie/Ken, and my personal favorite, Oscar/Blanca, beating up your opponent by being the first to correctly type a series of difficult words. Learning and violence! Fittingly, the […]
Aleksandr, Upper West Side. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ANIMAL’s Game Plan feature asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Chris Cornell of Paper Dino about Save the Date, a fourth wall-breaking dating game that gets stranger every time you play it. There is […]
London street artist and human letterpress Ben Eine returns to NYC to show new work at Judith Charles Gallery in Manhattan. “Heartfelt” consists of vibrant, intricately-adorned signature fonts and wordplay on canvasses. A crucial figure in the early emergence of street art in the UK, Eine has been successfully crafting his urban typography for well over two […]
Iouri, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The most romantic thing on the internet today is Endless Porno Kisses, a single-serving site that infinitely loops giant GIFs of actors kissing in adult films. Just kissing. It’s mesmerizing to watch. Each click brings a new couple, passionately licking each other’s tongues — men kissing men, women kissing women, women kissing men. Damjan Pita, one […]
The Lego Movie (2014) A LEGO®-based comedy action-adventure with an unlikely protagonist, uplifting message and sensible interlaced multi-world narrative, surprisingly not shit (´･_･`) MOVIENESS: 4.0 out of 5.0 I ＼(☆o◎)／ed, I ヘ（。□°）ヘed, this is like a real movie UNAMERICAN ANTI-CAPITALIST PROPAGANDA: 3.5 out of 5.0 “OMG BROS! LEGO® wants us to make a […]
David Seger and his friends are fighting back against the Hollywood remake machine. The ubiquitous big-budget reworkings of classic films, from Total Recall to Alice in Wonderland, inevitably twist and contort the source material, leaving fans of the originals with little recourse aside from ranting and raving on web forums and making image macros. Seger thinks bigger than […]
