Category: Takeover
When 34-year-old Donovan Sid posted iPhone footage of an open double-decker tour bus getting soaked from two fire hydrants, he had no idea that it would blow up on the internet, he tells ANIMAL. “My friend hit me, like, your video went viral, and I said, really??!!” Born and raised in New York City, he […]
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 David OReilly about Mountain, a game in which you watch nature express itself. If god exists, he or she doesn’t give a shit about you […]
Joanna Ebenstein is petite, soft-spoken and bookish. She’s also a woman who traffics in death. “I don’t actually think it’s morbid at all to think about death,” she says. “I think it’s really weird not to.” ANIMAL recently visited Ebenstein’s Morbid Anatomy museum, which she founded and curates in Gowanus section of Brooklyn. Ebenstein, 42, […]
A few weeks ago, New York-based performance artist Miao Jiaxin had posted a listing on Airbnb seeking guests to spend the night in a cage in his Bushwick studio for $1 a day. Shortly afterwards, Jiaxin’s listing was taken off Airbnb, but the project lives on. To participate, book your stay and promise that from […]
Roger Ver or “Bitcoin Jesus” — no seriously, people call him that — gave up his US citizenship for citizenship in St Kitts and Nevis, the famous tax shelter in the West Indies. He has also offered to help any other Bitcoiner with “Passports for Bitcoin:” Having a second citizenship and passport in a stable country is now a […]
As soon as word got out that Jason Wulf aka renowned graffiti practitioner DG had died, supporters began tagging the Brooklyn subway station where he was reportedly electrocuted by the third rail. One local tabloid claimed that the NYPD had to dispatch officers to discourage the writers. Soon after, Instagram feeds flooded with blackbook homages […]
It’s 10:23AM on the first day in July and I’m sitting in a dark, cold basement in one of the MTA’s two field offices in Manhattan. This one is at Chambers Street and I’ve spent the past three hours shadowing one of the best jobs the MTA has to offer: lost items retriever. I’m here […]
“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. Dub Thompson are an LA band that, with help from Foxygen’s producer Jonathan Rado, are quickly […]
Russia is full of problems. Good thing there’s one singular political entity responsible for most of the country’s bans on things — Rospotrebnadzor aka Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being. So if you bored by the censorship, imprisonment and murders of Kremlin policy critics, here’s a nifty list of things Russia has recently banned for you […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Berlin-based artist Labanna Babalon talks about mysterious emails, mind-expanding psychedelics, community, rejecting the monetization of the art world and new digital platforms, all of which resulted in her latest piece titled ANIMAL. Honestly, I had a […]
