The MTA announced Thursday it has added wireless voice and data service to 30 new stations along the subway system. For now, AT&T and T-Mobile are the only major carriers on the system, but Verizon and Sprint are finalizing details as well. In 2011, six stations along 14th and 23rd Streets were outfitted with underground […]
Doc, Greenpoint. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Someone hung a banner critical of drones atop the AJ Muste Memorial Institute building in NoHo. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze) […]
South African art champs have united again. Since shock rave-rap duo Die Antwoord’s art roots were uncovered, it’s not surprising Harmony Korine was all over that, but no collaboration makes more sense than Die Antwoord and Roger Ballen, as immortalized in the “Finks U Freeky” music video. If someone punches you in the face fokken hard, it makes you stop thinking […]
Die Hard was based on a book. That book, the 1979 thriller Nothing Lasts Forever, was the sequel to a 1966 novel called The Detective, which was adapted as a film of the same name in 1968. That film starred none other than Frank Sinatra. Yes, Frank Sinatra once played John “yipee-ki-yay” McClane. While the Die Hard-Nothing Lasts Forever-The Detective saga is […]
Last week, the tech-minded art gallery 319 Scholes opened “#FUTUREMYTH,” a group exhibition featuring artists who explore contemporary mythology within the confines of the art gallery setting. The works in the show thoughtfully embrace the aesthetic of a technology-driven lifestyle, utilizing a slew of iPads, 3D prints as well as a selection of readymade objects. This type […]
Using an XY Plotter, a few LED lights and a laboriously programmed Arduino microprocessor, artist Stephen Cartwright has created a series of long exposure photos based on his own exact GPS-location data since 1999. Since the inception of Cartwright’s latitude and longitude recording project, he has searched for appropriate ways to visualize this massive collection of data […]
Here’s the latest spectacle of wonders from London-based creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast. Commissioned by STRP Biennale in Eindhoven, Forest is a 450-square-meter interactive musical laser installation comprised of over 150 rod-and-laser “trees.” Visitors are encouraged to frolic through the massive space and strum and shake the trees, creating different patterns of light and sound. Each […]
He’s also one of the original founders of ANIMAL. When Matt and I first launched ANIMAL in 2003, we had no idea what the fuck we were doing, but it quickly became clear that graffiti was definitely going to play a role, as I began to realize his obsession with the outlaw art form. The […]
It’s about time this insanely powerful new technology was employed in the service of helping lazy people be lazy. Like an image plucked from the dreams of Homer Simpson, this Kinect hack turns any surface in your home into a remote control. Using the Kinect’s depth sensing camera in conjunction with a projector and voice detection, […]
