Category: Takeover
Rent Is Too Damn High Party candidate Jimmy McMillan is still running for mayor and making music videos. Following up on his anthemic rap video “Rent Is Too Damn High” with ANIMAL, Jimmy dropped “Debate” at 2am last night. Jimmy McMillan tells ANIMAL that he still thinks that music is the way to reach young people. […]
William, Asser Levy Park. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Have you heard of Rospotrebnadzor? We haven’t, until 30 minutes ago, when Anatoli Ulyanov of art site Looo.ch told ANIMAL that Rospotrebnadzor — Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare — has blocked their site and added it into the Registry of Forbidden Sites. This means that every ISP in Russia is blocking Looo.ch from their customers. […]
Yes, the iPhone 5S is on sale today! Hooray for gold! Hooray for capitalism! For many of us, the lust for new Apple stuff was satiated by this week’s release of iOS 7 (which, I must admit, I am really enjoying so far), but those true devotees, nothing short of a shiny new phone will […]
Artist and activist Steve Lambert’s traveling piece Capitalism Works For Me! is a large illuminated sign and a voting podium. You vote “yes” or “no” on whether capitalism works for you and the results are tallied and displayed on the sign — in real time. Today, it was installed in Times Square, on Broadway between 46th […]
Yesterday, ANIMAL headed to Alife which was transformed into a Drake pop-up store on Rivington Street to talk to the fans who had assembled there in hopes of getting a free t-shirt. Unfortunately, we left the scene before the box cutters came out and the cops arrived, but we did manage to speak to a […]
Printed Matter’s free annual New York Art Book Fair opened last night at MoMA PS1 and two hours in, I hadn’t even made it into the main building, still roaming “The Schoolyard” section. The giant tent right of the dome housed 60 small publishing crews of artists, photographers, writers and stacks, piles, rolls, vials of… printed […]
Hundreds of people showed up to Bryant Park dressed in white this week for Diner en Blanc or, excuse me — “Le Dîner en Blanc” which “recalls the elegance and glamour of court society” as “diners engage one another knowing they are taking part in a truly magical event.” Although this public, white-clad affair is a far […]
Robert, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Earlier today, we received an alert from NotifyNYC, that said there will be “20-30 aircrafts flying single file out of Sky Manor Airport at 1,100 feet down the Hudson River this afternoon at 3:30 PM.” So, we grabbed our video equipment and scrambled up to the roof of our Hell’s Kitchen office to witness this […]
