Category: Takeover
On Saturday it snowed again in New York. Here are some closeups of what snowflakes looked like in some of the city’s trendiest neighborhoods. ANIMAL documented the various flakes in action using a DSLR I hacked with the Pentax 25mm 1.4 TV lens that’s usually found in 1″ CCTV security cameras. Check out ANIMAL’s previous […]
Shelby, Union Square. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Newark students who charged into a superintendent’s office on Tuesday night and stayed there for the next three days are leaving on Friday at 5:30 PM. One of their demands have been met, says 15-year-old Gabrielle Vera, who first spoke to ANIMAL about the protest on Wednesday. It took a lot of resolve to […]
Egyptian officials, who have in recent years arrested journalists, artists and even a popular satirist, have now confiscated a book about street art and graffiti out of fear that it is “instigating revolt.” The book, Walls of Freedom, by design professor Basma Hamdy and street artist and activist Don Stone, documents the 2011 Egyptian revolution […]
Bartolomeu, Lower East Side. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ME x Clint Mario, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
SPOILER ALERT: ANIMAL has learned that the winner of the $100,000 prize on Oxygen’s all-around terrible “street art” show — sponsored by the equally terrible and ineffective anti-drug outfit D.A.R.E. — is Christian-pastor-dude Cameron Moeberg, aka CAMER1. Down with the Gospel Graffiti Crew, the 33-year-old youth pastor and spoken word artist from San Francisco beat […]
Eight Newark students have taken over the Newark Public School system’s superintendent office, which they have been occupying since Tuesday evening. They will continue to demonstrate, they say, until their demands are met. The sit-in, organized by the Newark Student Union, takes cues from national movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Eric Garner protests. […]
In the simplest of terms, a Brony is a bro that likes My Little Pony. But over the past few years, as the phenomenon has grown in popularity, that definition has come to encompass any adult fan of the make-believe equine universe. ANIMAL wanted to witness this culture firsthand and so we recruited the city’s […]
