Category: Takeover
These babies are more prepared for the future than your babies. Those cooling folds in the skull will come in handy when global warming get worse. The extra puffy cheeks increase the “absorption of food, drugs and caffeine.” The sharp nose? Aerodynamic. The bloody dangling cluster of nerves where a toe should be? Um… Not sure about […]
Melvin, Brooklyn Heights. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
There’s a battle brewing in Bed-Stuy: on one side, a property management company attempting to raise tenants’ rent by as much as 56 percent; on the other, a folk hero, a leader of men hoping to rally his neighbors to take a stand against their landlord. His name is General Shithawk. He stands for truth […]
It starts off familiar enough. Times Square. Faded REVS tags. The High Line… and then, traffic lights begin to bloom in clusters, subway turnstile bars unfurl and wave like seagrass, street lights blossom into dandelion shapes. This New York Biotopes animation by German student Lena Steinkühler is going to BLOW YOUR MIND. Watch as everything industrial and metropolitan becomes […]
Bud, Downtown Brooklyn. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Last June, Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary media artist Jonas Lund developed ThePaintshop.biz, a collaborative online platform for creating, buying and selling reasonable algorithm-priced art in real time. Many paintings were made, though not so many were sold–only about three of 3,500. In an effort to reach a wider market, to extend beyond the standard art collector type milieu, he […]
Just in time for Deadspin’s epic smackdown of Donald Trump, Hilary Sargent of Chartgirl created this wonderful inforgraphic documenting many of the man’s past media feuds. There’s Barbara Walters, who told Trump he was “making a fool” of himself over the birther nontroversy, Brian Williams, who said the man had “driven well past the last […]
“Every year I send valentines. This year I won’t have to. Times Square will do it for me.” ARE YOU BEING SARCASTIC TRACEY EMIN? It’s your thing, right? That’s alright though. When the digital billboard versions of the famous British artist’s neon signage series I Promise To Love You go on view in Times Square this Friday, no […]
Allister, Financial District. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Lyrically, Animal Collective’s “Applesauce” is a song about the simple sensory pleasures of eating a good fruit, and possibly the fear of death and environmental collapse that comes with a good fruit’s decay. Sonically, it’s complete overload, taking the more-is-more approach of 2007’s Strawberry Jam to its logical conclusion–all polyrhythmic drumming, burbling synthesizers, and frantically melodic vocals. Enter […]
