Category: Takeover
“I’m going out on top,” East Village Radio general manager Peter Ferraro said, ushering the final guests of the last broadcast into the booth with a friendly shove. “We’re going out our way… our way.” After eleven years of free broadcasting, the station went off the air last night, with the rising rents and licensing fees to blame. Adjacent Lil’ Frankie’s […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 71° F NIGHT 57° F In theaters this weekend: X-Men: Days of Future Past, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality. (Read our interview […]
We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of Citi Bike’s launch in NYC. To celebrate, let’s take a look at what may be the system’s greatest workhorse. The always wonderful NYC data blog I Quant NY crunched Citi Bike’s publicly available data to find bike #17279, which blogger Ben Wellington is calling “the busiest Citi Bike in […]
If you think 3D is for superheroes and the mass destruction of cities, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language is proving that 3D is for whatever Jean-Luc Godard wants — like completely disorienting the audience by making them go cross-eyed. The 83-year-old filmmaker’s latest is blowing critics away, bringing more innovation and spit-in-your-eye punk attitude 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 Ken Wong of London-based digital design firm ustwo about Monument Valley, an iOS and Android game inspired by books, music videos and M.C. Escher. […]
Artist Rick Silva, whose new media landscapes were on view at TRANSFER Gallery last year, has just launched a new project — The Silva Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future. The 18 short videos 30 seconds in length depict fantastical birds or their parts in flight — a cube of ruffling feathers, sleek swallows diving […]
From high-tech spectrographs to old-fashioned sheet music, there are plenty of ways to visually encode sound, but none quite like PhonoPaper. The app, free on iOS and Android, analyzes anything you can record on your phone, then saves it as an image filled with black-and-white blobs. Print that image out, and you — or anyone […]
The two-day Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) graduate showcase at NYU was a madhouse, with some 100 projects on view, ranging from groundbreaking innovations to timely trinkets. Here are the highlights of recent works from the international group of artists, programmers and technologists. There were several game-based projects, but Omer Shapira’s 4D-gaming concept for Horizon blew me away (above). The […]
And according to FBI director James Comey, the bureau’s no-tolerance policy for hiring pot smokers means it is missing out on the upper echelon of cybersecurity specialists. All the best hackers, it would seem, smoke weed. At the White Collar Crime Institute, a conference Monday at the New York City Bar Association, Comey admitted he’s […]
The Unknown Known (2013) A portrait of an old man as an orchestrator of history. Master documentary filmmaker Errol Morris puts former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the spot to discuss his ’60s congressmanning to the whole 2003 invasion of Iraq thing WTF WAS THAT AMIRITE?!!?! THE BUILDING SENSATION THAT OUR REALITY […]
