Category: Takeover
Photographer Tod Seelie and accomplices recently explored the ruins inside the Domino Sugar Factory on the East River in Williamsburg. More photos here. (Photo: Tod Seelie) […]
“It’s about the positive outcome of a disaster,” Eyebeam Art+ Technology Center resident artist Jonathan Minard tells ANIMAL. One of New York’s most inspiring creative spaces suffered $250,000 in dammage to AV equipment, books and computers from Hurricane Sandy’s toxic, corroding, 3-foot floods. It took a toil on Eyebeam’s precious archive of analog and digital media spanning 15 years of […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist Evan Roth shares a computer sketch of the renowned project EyeWriter which allowed graffiti writer TEMPTONE — almost completely paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — to create graffiti using only his tracked eye movement and project it on buildings miles away. […]
Aw, famous actor Gérard Depardieu! Don’t want to pay France’s really rising taxes on the rich? No matter. Come, come to Russia’s sleepy charming city of Saransk and enjoy their now-famous 13% income-tax… and that’s just the advertised rate. Ask ’em about their specials, wink wink. Depardieu officially became a Russian citizen yesterday and happily, because “Depardieu said he admires Russia for […]
Frank, JFK. (Photo: Submitted by reader Halina Steiner and you can too!) […]
Pirelli, the world’s fifth-largest tire manufacturer based in Italy is the power behind Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear, and Continental has acquired notoriety for their annual calendar which is set to see it’s 40th — 40th!!! — release this year. The calendar traditionally features nudes of world famous models and is reserved for an exclusive group of corporate […]
Nathan, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. AAMANS-COPENHAGEN 13 Laight St, TriBeCa, Manhattan DRAM 177 S 4th St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NIZZA 630 9th Ave, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan DONNA 27 Broadway, […]
Stop teasing. Stop it right now. Stop teasing, David. There are so many ardent Twin Peaks fans around the world crossing their legs in anticipation right now, because they don’t want their non-David Lynch-geek coworkers to see how excited they are… in their pants. And hearts. And Bob-possessed souls, naturally. Rumor has it that Twin Peaks creators David […]
Massacres at the hands of crazed gunmen in 2012 left us Americans shaking our heads and searching our souls. It also emboldened gun control advocates with a renewed fervor to once-and-for-all enact laws that they hope could prevent gruesome mass shootings from happening again. In the aftermath of Newtown, the main action that the media, the […]
