Category: Takeover
Goatse.cx, the greatest website ever made, is dead. The site, infamous for hosting an image of a man stretching his anus out to an impressive width, while his penis drooped below, a solitary gold ring sparkling on his left hand, now shows a YouTube video depicting a “lawyer” rambling about the digital currency Dogecoin. He can’t even say […]
2C-I is a psychedelic phenethylamine of the 2C family discovered by our lord and savior Alexander Shulgin. The 2C family of drugs are stimulating psychedelic empathogen-entactogens of which, 2C-B is the most well known scion. It’s been called “explosion” or “introspection” and is sometimes sold as mescaline. While 25I-NBOME is a much stronger derivative of […]
At around 5:30 this morning, a man driving a stolen box truck crashed into a city bus at Seventh Avenue and 14th Street, killing William Pena, the bus driver, and injuring four others, including the driver of the truck. Police were pursuing the truck before the crash, and apprehended the driver at the scene. Pena was a […]
Horton, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In December, Mother London, the sister company of ANIMAL’s parent company, produced some limited edition Russian nesting dolls of British gay icons and sent them to the Kremlin. They were a big hit. When the actor, writer and activist Stephen Fry was asked to sign the charity dolls, we asked if we could tag along and use the opportunity […]
Last week, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, formerly of Pussy Riot, were the center of a cocktail party fundraiser for the VOICE project, an NGO that ran their legal fund. I say “center,” rather than “hosts.” Nadya and Masha smiled for the cameras, paid tribute to Russian political prisoners, then disappeared upstairs. Their appearance lasted […]
Shia, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“I’m willing to get a ticket or get arrested,” artist Serge Miquel told ANIMAL after finishing installing his unauthorized art show inside a Bank of America in NoHo on Friday. After taping up the abstract drawings in every window of the ATM-only branch, Miquel walked across the street and started working on a sculpture. He asked […]
“It’s really important for artists to have a resource where they could get art supplies that aren’t from a corporation,” Arielle Avenia tells ANIMAL, showing us around the 10 x 12 Aftermath Supplies space at Brooklyn’s Silent Barn. (See our video tour above.) Since January 2013, Avenia and her business partner Devin Lilly have been selling donated, salvaged […]
“Beastie Boys Square” may not happen, and “Christopher Wallace Way” is as good as dead, but Shane Rossi is giving some solace to fans of New York City hip hop. On Friday, February 7th, the Bronx resident and hip hop fan placed a sign at 163rd Street and Rogers Place in the BX, marking the […]
