Category: Takeover
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Today’s playlist comes to you from Nancy Whang who, with John MacLean, makes rump-shaking electro-disco music […]
ANIMAL will be bringing you continuing coverage from The New York Film Festival, which runs Sep 26 – Oct 12 at Film Society of Lincoln Center. Inherent Vice will be released sometime around Christmas in New York, followed by a wide-release on January 9th, 2015. Paul Thomas Anderson has been consistently making one masterpiece after another since 1997, when […]
Everyone likes to get high. Whether from your morning cup of coffee, taking 2C-I to trip balls, or a surge of endocannabinoids after doing exercise, we love the feeling. This is rooted in a common chemistry that all creatures share. Scientists and cat toy makers have long known that animals too enjoy the fruits of […]
“Advertisers have been stealing graffiti tactics for years,” says long-time graffiti writer 2ESAE. SKI adds, “We’re not allowed to paint trains anymore. Who knew that years later… fucking Target could have a full car?” SKI is referring to the time when the MTA first let a brand wrap an ad entirely around a subway car in […]
It was around 7:30PM when Margarita Rosario took the microphone at the Sunset Park rec center, turned to a table that seated five police officers and told the story of how her son had been murdered by NYPD cops. “My son, Anthony Rosario, had 14 bullets in his back, face down on the floor,” Rosario […]
The protests in Hong Kong started out with a bang and blasts of tear gas Sunday night. Since then, Hong Kong’s Occupy Central movement has spread rapidly to five different districts in the city. Roads normally filled with buses and taxis have been closed off, as tens of thousands of people sit in the streets […]
ANIMAL will be bringing you continuing coverage from the New York Film Festival which runs Sep 26 – Oct 12 at Film Society of Lincoln Center. The Look of Silence plays Wednesday, October 1st at 9:00pm. The Look of Silence is a very disturbing documentary about the victims and perpetrators of communist-purging mass killings in Indonesia. It’s […]
Over a half-century ago, then-mayor William O’Dwyer buried a time capsule at 370 Jay Street in Brooklyn, which was the site of the Board of Transportation building at the time. The contents? Sexy microfilmed documents relating to the construction of the building. Even if it is only just a bunch of old documents, on Wednesday […]
The teen who climbed New York’s soon-to-be tallest residential building has been arrested. Last week, ANIMAL spoke to 17-year-old Demid Lebedev about his daredevil mission to take some sick photos from the top of 432 Park Avenue. Though at the time, all he had to say was “no comment” and his age, he wasn’t difficult to track down through Twitter. His […]
Richard Prince has to be one of the most hated populist artists of all time. His work consistently hits the sweet spot of “pretentious” — because it conceptualizes a sort of “theft” — and “mainstream” — because his subjects are very popular (Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll). His work is about Cigarettes, Cowboys, Motorcycles, Hot Chicks, […]
