Category: Takeover
Even though the polar vortex is finally dissipating, the Hudson River is icy today. It’s not completely frozen — more of a chunky soup texture. Still, that’s fairly unusual. The surface of the Hudson River previously only froze completely in 1821, 1780 and 1720. We went over to check it out… so you don’t have to. (Photos: […]
Though Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan for medical cannabis legalization is a step in the right direction, it isn’t enough to get suffering New Yorkers the treatment they need, according to the weed advocacy group Marijuana Policy Project. Cuomo’s plan, which he will announce in his State of the State address this afternoon, calls for weed […]
Artist Ben Grosser’s Computers Watching Movies shows what “a computational system sees” when it watches films. Presented as a series of temporal sketches and videos, Grosser tracks the system’s “eye” movement to propose a contrast between our human “culturally-developed ways of looking” and computational watching. It was pretty fascinating seeing the lines appear, tracking a trail from across […]
Keegan, Barbara, Times Square. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This afternoon, ANIMAL ventured out into the frozen tundra that is currently Hell’s Kitchen to ask people one question: What the hell are you doing outside right now? Between a lot of “going to work” and “getting lunch,” we got some interesting responses, including one from a very serious journalist who was having none of […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s list comes from the excellent, long-running Brooklyn punk band Japanther, selected a slew of scrappy rock and hardcore, as well as some outliers like Kate Bush’s excellent “Wuthering Heights” and an effortless-seeming […]
What do David Brooks, Tina Brown, Joe Scarborough, and Pat Buchanan* have in common, besides their lily whiteness and comfy careers nurtured in the ivory halls of corporate media? Answer: They’re all baby boomers– a historically wavering demographic on all weed related issues — who spoke out against the recent legalization of cannabis in Colorado. Not […]
Missy, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
There’s steam rising from the city’s striped pipes as if Hell itself is just below Manhattan. (Photo: Nicholas Noyes/Flickr) […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week New York-based artists Mike Bailey-Gates and Claire Christerson share detailed storyboards and lists for their recent video piece The Cherub Garden, inspired by Marie Antoinette and Peter Greenaway. When we thought of this project, we were inspired by our collection […]
