Category: Takeover
Chiptune or chip music — produced by manipulating or emulating the sounds of video games — was once an incredibly niche genre, something you had to trawl the internet to find. Nowadays, Skrillex uses video game-like noises in hit songs and chiptune superstars Anamanaguchi soundtrack movies. This success and the legitimization of video game-inspired music and video […]
After a “nasty accident with a plate glass window” Beriah Wall tells ANIMAL that he “became interested in insignificance. How small and worthless could an object be and still communicate?” The 67-year-old artist has been making his signature clay coins since 1977, creating hundreds of unique issues, leaving them all over the city and earning him […]
A mural honoring Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri was painted on the side of a business in North St. Louis. The tribute was done by artist Joseph Albanese and commissioned by Signature Screenprinting according to the St. Louis Dispatch. It’s a “dedication to the Mike […]
Marcellus Buckley, 22, reads his poem, “The People vs The Police” on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson Friday evening. (Video: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Like other major urban centers, the city of St. Louis is teeming with graffiti. Some of it’s amazing, some of it sucks. In between covering the protests in Ferguson, here’s what we came across in a desolate warehouse, at an abandoned train yard, and along a legal (flood) wall on South Wharf Street known as […]
Sam Boyd walked into Insite Media’s small Ferguson office on Wednesday afternoon and wanted a t-shirt made. Boyd, like so many others here, wanted something original that would encapsulate what Michael Brown’s death represents. He took a clipboard and filled out what would be on front of the shirt, then the back: “Hands up, Shoot […]
5 Pointz, New York City’s “graffiti mecca,” is being demolished right now. This morning, a backhoe began tearing into the building that has served as a legal spot for aerosol artists for over two decades. In 2011, the property owner announced that he will be developing the site and transforming it into a massive condo complex. Last […]
Ways of Seeing (1972) has been sweded by a massive group of digital, new media and web-based artists. Debuting in New York on September 6th, Ways of Something (2014) keeps the original audio track of John Berger’s seminal BBC program, but replaces all visuals with 60-second artworks, reworking the art history doc into relevancy and insanity. “I encouraged the artists to […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video 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 Toni Pizza, Diego Garcia and Aaron Freedman about Sunburn, an adorable game about a crew of astronauts determined to die in a blaze of […]
After a public uproar over the St. Louis County Police Department’s handling of the Michael Brown protests, Governor Jay Nixon put the Missouri State Highway Patrol in charge of security for the small town. Click through the gallery above for photos of officers from that unit and various other law enforcement agencies currently operating in […]
