Category: Takeover
Since 1999, Tod Seelie a.k.a. Sucka Pants has been shooting iconic New York — not your shiny postcard tourist New York, not your banal work-a-day New York. Seelie shoots sweaty basement DIY shows, firey tall-bike jousting Bike Kill, Swoon’s Swimming Cities trash-art-rafts on the Hudson River, lawless block parties, artists, train-hoppers, anti-heroes — our heroes. He’s kayaked to abandoned hospitals on […]
Internt memes, by their very nature, are vessels for reappropriation. Philosoraptor isn’t that funny the first time you see it; the humor comes when a meme creator successfully fulfills the parameters of the meme–banal and/or profound observational humor, setup on top, punchline on the bottom–which evolve as the meme propogates and is remixed. But that […]
Multi-media artist Hunter Jonakin — maker of our favorite video game Jeff Koons Must Die!!! — is working on a new project. He’s foraying into the realm of performance art. This isn’t art meant to sell a gallery. It’s art meant for you — the audience. Many of these clever performances are deeply rooted in trolling the “art […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week’s Sample Wars presents a novel case. Like usual, both Chance the Rapper’s “Everybody’s Something” (released this week on his new mixtape Acid Rap) and Slum Village’s “Fall […]
You’re a tourist in New York City, looking to add a bit of old-world charm to your evening out with your loved one. Naturally, after leaving the theater, you head uptown to Central Park for a romantic trip in an one of the city’s iconic horse-drawn carriages old-timey electric cars. That’s the vision of the […]
Barnes, Greenpoint. (Photo: Aymann Islamil/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Your va-jay-jay called! It wants to talk about anarcho-syndicalism. This Tumblr is amazing. While you may never be able to leaf through the pages of Cosmarxpolitan to learn the dirty deets of mega-babe Antonio Gramsci’s sex life, or why Kropotkin thinks anarchism is the new black (it so is), these first seven mock-covers will provide […]
Just days after Richard Prince triumphantly won his copyright lawsuit, just when we supposedly established that “law does not require that a new work of art comment on any of its source material to qualify as fair use” — today, appropriation rights take a step back. A California judge has ruled that Mr. Brainwash was, […]
Along with their relocation to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, it’s being reported that the New York Islanders are considering a spiffy new look, which is apropos for a hockey team moving from homogenous Long Island to NYC. So, we enlisted ANIMAL ally and graphic design expert Michael Weinfeld to whip up a few different […]
We’ve seen decisive moments captured in Google Street View by photographers Michael Wolf. We’ve seen the cinematic edge of rough neighborhoods in Doug Rickard work. We loved how Clement Valla explored the glitching of the real world through this interface. Steve Strip’s video for “Hood” is all of those things, plus live capture of swooping in bird-eye […]
