Aleah, 17, has just discovered that she’s pregnant. But she has no good options: Her abusive boyfriend, who runs with a gang, is also cheating on her. Her mom called her a “hoe” and kicked her out. Before Aleah can figure out where to go from there, she’s caught in a shootout in front of […]
In a bit of dead-on satire that’s both hilarious and disheartening, The Nightly Show’s Mike Yard instructs would-be videographers to make sure they rotate their phone sideways so the camera films the police beatdown in full-frame horizontal mode instead of narrow vertical. In the segment, called “The Nightly Show Film School with Professor Mark Yard,” […]
Filmmaker Justin Brooks took a trip to Brooklyn’s Dead Horse Bay on a foggy day and shot some moody, pretty footage. Dead Horse Bay, named for the waste produced by the glue factories that used to surround it, is polluted with garbage from an old, ruptured landfill. Some of the debris on the beach is […]
On Sunday, subway dancers from the WeLiveThis troupe will turn the Brooklyn Museum’s Beaux-Arts Court into a “showtime” stage as part of an installation called “Public Disruption/Private Powers.” The installation will loosely interpret a subway car and allow the dancers to legally perform in order to “explore the relationship between dancers and the public,” according […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks 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 Lucie Viatgé, Tom Victor and Titouan Millet of the Klondike Collective about Naut, a trippy game made in two days. These days, it’s not unusual […]
Today, for the first time in Citi Bike’s two-year history, a sponsor has underwritten a day of free passes for anyone who wants to ride one of the slow blue bikes. From 12:01 AM to 11:59 PM on May 14, all a rider has to do is swipe a credit card and select a 24-hour […]
Griffin, Bed Stuy. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“The second I saw this cut in the hallway I knew I wanted to paint an illusion,” said artist MERES One as he was standing inside his anamorphism, one of his many contributions to the 5Pointz takeover at August Martin High School. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Last month, artists affixed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to a war monument in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park. On May 6, the artists behind the bust released a file so anyone can make their own 3D printed version of the bust. Now, a different crew of artists sympathetic to the cause have gone […]
Last week, James Rodriguez’s attorney filed a notice of claim that he plans to sue the city for $10 million, because on February 26, Rodriguez was arrested and kept in handcuffs by NYPD officers for 7 hours after having his elbow broken by a baseball bat during a bodega scuffle, the Daily News reports. Rodriguez […]
