This recent series of GIFs by artist Anthony Antonellis is pretty perfect. See flattened collages of melting flesh quivering inside almost-familiar shapes of hand-held devices. (Hand-held “hands”?) It’s lightly reminiscent of old body-horror Cronenberg (or new Cronenberg Jr.!) but clean and crisp. Ahhh. […]
It’s tempting to believe that everyone is jazzed up about New York’s long awaited CitiBike bicycle share program, but at least one old man is out to prove that’s not the case. 68-year-old Jacques Capsouto, proprietor of Tribeca’s popular Capsouto Freres bistro, believes the program will take parking away across the street from his Washington Street restaurant […]
New York State Senator Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) is confident that the medical marijuana bill introduced in March will pass through the senate if voted on, claiming that 38 of the group’s 63 members back the legislation. There’s a two-fold roadblock, however: Senate co-leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) will have to approve a vote, and […]
The studies linking soothing music to healing seem to pile up by the day, so it only follows that one of the world’s great practitioners of mellowed-out ambience would turn his ear to medicine. According to the Independent, Brian Eno is has created two light and sound installations that will be placed in Montefiore Hospital in Hove, England. One, a […]
Regionald, Brooklyn Heights. (Photo: Ian Bell) […]
The owner of Graham Furniture in Williamsburg must really like graffiti. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
At 5:41 this evening, Reuters published an obituary for financier and philanthropist George Soros. “George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX,” reads the headline, followed by an even more bizarre lede: “George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and hugely successful financier and investor, who argued paradoxically for years […]
Although many news outlets have done a horrendous job with their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, the New York Post in particular is by far, the media’s most prolific offender. First they “reported” that 12 people died while the official death toll stood at 3. Then they falsely accused a 20-year-old Saudi national of […]
ANIMAL is a bit obsessed with this new Tumblr project from Derek Frech and Alison Feldish that presents two similar art works side by side. WhoWoreItBetter.Info is addictive. It’s incredible how works decades and continents apart have striking resemblances. It’s depressing how works not decades and continents apart have striking resemblances. We asked the creators about their motivations. Where the […]
Modern solutions for an existential crisis range from cognitive psychotherapy to the Church of Scientology to leaving your family to join a polyamorous commune that specializes in human poop fertilization. But now there’s a cheaper, less drastic treatment for that crushing awareness of your impending death — and it’s probably sitting in your medicine cabinet. […]
