Category: Takeover
The NYPD was prepared for heavier protests on Thursday night, and New Yorkers, frustrated by Wednesday’s failure to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, delivered. Gathering in Union and Foley Squares around 5:30 PM, thousands of people swarmed the city, eventually spilling into roadways and blocking traffic on essentially every major […]
Leonardo, Downtown Brooklyn. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Tensions ran high between Eric Garner protesters and NYPD officers on Wednesday night near Rockefeller Center. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The NYPD braced itself for a second night of protests after more than a thousand people marched across the city on Wednesday night, outraged by a Staten Island jury’s failure to charge officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner. 83 people were arrested. While outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder […]
On Thursday morning, as thousands across America were still sleepy from protesting the non-indictment of officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, another set of protestors prepared to march for liveable wage. In solidarity with fast food workers in 189 cities all over the country, nearly a hundred people gathered outside Manhattan’s City […]
CNN, the network that attempted to turn the Ferguson protests into amateur improv hour, has earned the ire of those protesting the Eric Garner case. The network, routinely disparaged by The Daily Show for its vacuous, inaccurate, and out-of-touch coverage, is now almost as reviled as the white officer who fatally choked Garner. Here’s footage […]
Soon after a Staten Island jury decided to not indict officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, the unarmed black man who died after being placed in a prohibited chokehold, protests erupted all over America. Just before people around the city took their outrage and sorrow to the streets, ANIMAL asked New Yorkers […]
With its bright blue background and intricately patterned letters of the alphabet, the mural that stretches around the corner of Avenue C and Sixth Street in New York’s East Village is visually arresting. But the painting, which just began last week, has quickly become a symbol of controversy — one that illuminates the clash between […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Porpentine about With Those We Love Alive, a text-based browser game about love, power and an alien empress. With Those We Love Alive opens on […]
“I think this is the first Skype that I’ve done at the top of a building.” ANIMAL interrupted eL Seed, who was in the middle of painting the entire facade of a building thousands of miles from New York, on Didouche Mourad Street in Algiers. The French-based graffiti artist had recently returned from the opening […]
