Category: Takeover
Tribeca Film Festival has just announced their online competition for six-second films through the Vine platform. Just shoot your Vines, tag ’em #6SECFILMS + one of their categories — #Genre, #Amateur, #Animate or #Series — and post them to Twitter before April 7th. And follow @TribecaFilmFest. Great idea. EXCUSE ME TRIBECA IMA LET YOU FINISH, but […]
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. Today, we’re reaching way back to The Flamingos’ 1959 hit “I Only Have Eyes You,” which provided the basis for The Fugees’ classic “Zealots” as well as minimal electronic […]
Ooh. That’s classy. Check these sleek, faux-Penguin book covers created by London graphic designer Sharm Murugiah. Tarantino’s screenplays have never looked more Penguin. Ooh, Quentin, you’re so literary. Wasn’t his screenplay for From Dusk ‘Till Dawn like three pages and then “[vampire fight]” ? Enjoy Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill : Vol.1 & 2, […]
Blake, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
TRANSFER, Brooklyn’s latest addition to the www-to-AFK gallery space experiment, opened its doors last weekend with a solo show by Alexandra Gorczynski. Steadily exhibiting several times a year, the artist created all new work for “Truisms.” Standouts? A particularly likable canvas of flirty eyes and digital strokes, a classical visual of female anatomy with a smiley face […]
Today, PETA and other animal rights activist groups held a small but vocal anti-cruelty demonstration just a block from the Ringling Bros Circus’ Elephant “Dance Party,” the event that is substituting for the usual elephant parade. While elephants in circus attire stood deliberately arranged in the street, eating fruit in front of spectators, the protestors spread the […]
Brooklyn-based artist Antoine Catala wants help making drones. No, not the government’s killer drones. These will be small, made for flying around an art gallery, and shaped like one of the four popular Internet categories: cat, car, butt, or pizza. So if you know how to program a drone, notably the AR.Drone 2.0, please let […]
Ferguson, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Cab Roulette is a recurring series in which comedian Dan Speiser interviews cab drivers about their experiences on the job. This is Saquib, a Pakistani father who hates military drones and loves playing Command and Conquer with his son. Episode 1: Abdulai Episode 2: Tony Episode 3: Adama Episode 4: Santos Episode 5: Sam Episode 6: Chowdhry Episode 7: Adams Episode 8: Induhussein Episode […]
Rose, Midtown. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
