Category: Takeover
In a wildly inflammatory and alarmist cover story that ran last week, the New York Post proclaimed that squeegee men were back (again) and terrorizing motorists with their window cleaner, panhandling the citizens of Gotham for their hard-earned dollars. To illustrate the mania these men were causing, The Post captured 40-year-old Philadelphia resident Gregg Washington […]
“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. Rich Aucoin deserves to make it big. The Canadian artist invokes the deranged gleefulness of Dan Deacon […]
Ernest Hemingway had a soft spot for six-toed cats. Even after his death, the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Florida is teeming with fifty-five of these furry polydactyls, descended from Snowball, a horny six-toed cat given to Hemingway by a sea captain. Photographer Henry Hargreaves recently travelled to the museum, and despite his allergies, shot regal portraits of […]
Robin Williams, the comedian who helped sell a generation’s worth of Mork & Mindy suspenders and starred in many movies, has died of an apparent suicide. He was 63-years-old. Shazbot! #93682257 / gettyimages.com #93898348 / gettyimages.com #93682694 / gettyimages.com #93765890 / gettyimages.com #93682707 / gettyimages.com #93682538 / gettyimages.com #93898298 / gettyimages.com (Illustration: Michael Weinfeld) […]
Cats have quite a dark and checkered past. After their divine reign in Ancient Egypt, they soon descended into the depths of Hell – or at least, that’s what many people believed for centuries. Author and PhD Art Historian Paul Koudounaris attempted to set the record straight during a lecture on demonic cats at the Morbid […]
At the Burning Fleshtival, “Hey, man, can you help me out?” really means “Hey, man, check this rock chained around my balls for me?” The Red Light District is a basement of a house in the suburbs on the beach in New York City. Walking around the Rockaway neighborhood, you’d never know that behind this nondescript house, […]
Bulletproof Stockings, the self-professed “alternative rock” band from Crown Heights, played an early show on the Lower East Side last night in front of Oxygen’s reality TV show cameras and an exclusively female, mostly Hasidic crowd. I realize now I don’t know exactly what “Hasidic” means. The hype hubbub began outside Arlene’s Grocery, with half a […]
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 Jakub Juszczak of Apertureless about Prisoned, a game in which he explores his own depression through a mix of real and fictional events. Prisoned […]
A few weeks ago, Eric Garner died soon after a plain clothes NYPD officer put him in what most reasonable people would characterize as a chokehold. The entire incident was captured on video and many people, including the mayor, police commissioner, medical examiner, and police union spokesperson, have weighed in on the footage. Mayor Bill […]
ANIMAL’s Radicals Of Retrofuturism uncovers stories by the technological rebels of the past in vintage media and looks at their predictions in the context of today’s digital world. This week, we look at Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock” in the Realist and beyond, circa 1970. Alvin Toffler‘s Future Shock, unlike the other bits of futurist ephemera we’ve discussed so […]
