Johnny Tergo is having his photographic cake and eating it, too. Using an elaborate setup in the back of a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, the photographer is able to quickly take street photos that have all the gloss and lighting of fine-tuned studio pieces. The effect gives the everyday moments of Tergo’s native Los Angeles […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Today’s “Listen In” playlists comes from grindcore kings (and inspiration for ANIMAL’s own canine metal band) Pig Destroyer, and gives a wide survey of heavy music circa 2013–from Blacklisters’ noisy post-hardcore to Portal’s […]
Before Kim Jong Un inherited his dictatorship over North Korea, “Dear Leader might have been just another goofy pre-teen in a school play.” That’s what the Atlantic says about those photos. The question mark at the end of the headline says they’re not sure but what they hey, clickity-click-click. The Sun goes all in though: […]
One-hundred human brains from patients of the Texas State Mental Hospital. In jars of fluid. Numbered. Labeled with the specifications of their malformalities. Stacked in a storage closet. Untouched for thirty years. That’s what photographer Adam Voorhes found when Scientific American magazine sent him to the University of Texas at Austin to borrow “a normal human […]
Walk down Van Brunt Street, the main commercial drag of Red Hook’s waterfront, and the signs are unavoidable–in nearly every shop and restaurant window, a bright yellow poster imploring the Environmental Protection Agency to “Say no to a toxic Red Hook.” They’re advocating against a plan that would have EPA workers dredging toxic sludge from […]
Russian brown bears are noble wild beasts, when not forced to ride motorcycles in the circus. Also, when they’re not huffing empty aviation fuel barrels. These bears are high. Theses bears are really, really high. The bears of Kronotsky Nature Reserve were drawn in by the scent of gasoline and now, look at that bear. Look at him […]
So you keep tagging the same wall, and, try as you might, your work keeps getting buffed. What do you do? If you happen to be writing on wood, and you happen to have a lot of time on your hands, you might consider the FireWriter by the artist and designer Lucien Langton. Rigged together […]
Simon, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Street artists Willow and Swilo brings rural elements to the streets of Brooklyn creating this nice juxtaposition. (Photo: Jake Dobkin/Flickr) […]
A mean old lady died in the UK today. While normally this wouldn’t be news, that old lady happened to be former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Although it’s been a long time since she resigned, the British version of Ronald Reagan has been widely criticized over the years for the Falklands War, the poll tax, […]
