Category: Takeover
Cab Roulette is a recurring series in which comedian Dan Speiser interviews cab drivers about their experiences on the job. Dan’s latest cab encounter is with a driver named Adams (first name), who’s down with a cold after being sneezed on by a slew of passengers. Episode 1: Abdulai Episode 2: Tony Episode 3: Adama […]
For entrepreneur Troy Dayton, providing basic services like insurance and capital management amounts to revolutionary business. The support his firm ArcView supplies might sound standard, but the businesses it works with are anything but: ArcView coordinates investment for the booming number of legal, cannabis-focused companies taking root across the United States. “I always thought that […]
When you fantasize about a globally-devastating event, isn’t one of the highlights… this? The silhouettes of Rio, Tokyo, San Francisco, New York submerged in utter dead darkness? And those stars. Suddenly visible, all of them. Mmm… End of the World, yeah, that’s the stuff. Photographer Thierry Cohen’s Darkened Cities travelled to remote areas to captured the unmolested night sky and digitally transplanted them […]
For the past five months, an anonymous group called “Racism Still Exists” has been posting powerful billboards in bus shelters around Bed-Stuy, with the stated aim of “[illuminating] some of the ways in which racism operates in this country.” Their latest, spotted by photographer Stephanie Keith, is a poster that takes refreshingly direct aim at the […]
Ken, Times Square. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
This evening, there was a major traffic accident on the Williamsburg Bridge. Actor, stuntman, and all around camera operator Dean Neistat witnessed it and managed to capture the shots of the aftermath. “I saw this car crash on the Williamsburg Bridge tonight,” he tells ANIMAL. Three cars were involved and according to him, “one flipped over,” but […]
“We’re going to do a lot of things the museum said we can’t do.” That we did. Last Saturday, Prince Rama held court at the Brooklyn Museum. It got spiritual. There was also glitter. The Brooklyn band’s life-philosphy/religion/budding cult the Now Age may not totally alleviate our post-2012 existential paranoia, but it does provide some […]
Last week, the City of New York announced that it would be rolling out newly designed parking signs to replace older, more confusing ones. A major part of that overhaul, which was done by a design firm with one of the coolest names ever, consisted of a “simplified layout that cuts back on the number […]
Edinburgh University scientist Dr. Ian Woodhouse hates deforestation. You like art. So how’s this… how’s your precious, precious art lookin’ now, with all the trees clear-cut? Ah-HA! Posted on his blog Forest Planet and ArtInfo, Woodhouse had the trees rather skillfully Photoshopped out of Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte (1884-86), John Constable’s The Hay Wain (1821) and Vincent van Gogh’s Olive Trees with […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, NYC graffiti-bombing legend COPE2 shows us what a quick sketch of his wall piece looks like. I did this sketch pretty quick once I knew I was putting a wall together with several graffiti artists. If I’m just […]
