Category: Takeover
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. In this week’s installment we’re looking at Miles Davis’s “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down,” which inspired two modern legends in their own right: Radiohead and Madlib (via his group Lootpack). […]
Ding ding ding, new arty app alert! KYUR8 just launched this week and… hold one minute while a make a photo zine. Ok, done! The app basically does two things: Allows you to create sleek, flippable mini-magazines in-phone with photos from your pic roll, Instagram, Facebook, etc. etc., just by tapping in assets into a […]
Michael Malice is a very successful celebrity ghostwriter, co-authoring books with D.L. Hughley and Bret Michaels, and then there was this one time Harvey Pekar wrote a book about him. For his seventh book, he’s doing something crazy. Also, he’s never going back to North Korea. “I would never go back there,” Malice tells ANIMAL. “People go to the gulag if […]
Estelle, Greenpoint. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Film Biz Recycling specializes in selling and renting all manner of entertainment industry artifacts. If you’ve ever wondered where to get anything from old vending machines to vintage coffins to a giant Legends of the Hidden Temple–style stone head, this is the place to go (the store is open to both film industry professionals and the […]
It’s curious when people find a joke so offensive their immediate reaction is to discuss it in detail with as many people as possible. Some would say that this is counterproductive, like buying a Dixie Chicks CD in order to smash it in front of news cameras. However without bemoaning the transgression to your sensibility […]
Murphy, Manhattan. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Scattered amid the thousands of pictures of Michael Bloomberg speaking behind a podium, the official Flickr account of the mayor’s office contains a treasure trove of strange, hilarious, and otherwise notable images. We did the hard work so you don’t have to, scanning through 10,536 photos and picking out the the greatest hits. Spider-Berg, Spider-Berg, […]
We’ve had a lot of fun looking at your 6-second Vines for the #VeryShortFilmFest. Thanks for all the naughty art, internet! You were amazing. Refresher: Since Vine — that hot social media platform that lets you record, edit and share 6-second-videos with sound in-camera — slapped NC-17 rating because of all the, ahem, dicks, we here at ANIMAL took […]
A couple of geniuses created the On1on, a parody/not-parody news site that parodies the parody news site the Onion. Confused yet? The On1on compiles real news stories that are ridiculous enough to appear on the satire site, then packages them in a format that’s nearly identical to the Onion‘s. The site appears to automatically populate with content from Reddit’s “Not The […]
