The Knife have been uncharacteristically forthcoming in recent months: dropping the masks, giving long-ranging interviews, “explaining” their intentions in a manifesto. Today, they released “The Interview,” a short film by Marit Östberg (who also directed the “Full of Fire” video), in which they lay out their intentions with new album Shaking the Habitual a little more […]
Here’s a fun little game that’s backed by SCIENCE! Recent studies suggest that certain aspects of your personality and future health can be predicted by your finger length — the “digit ratio” of your ring and index fingers, specifically. While doctors aren’t making diagnosis’ based on finger length just yet, scientists have found some fairly […]
Artist ads aren’t new — what’s up, Chris Burden? — but self-described art “villain” Nate Hill is doing it in one of the most effective, unconventional ways I’ve seen in quite some time. Think about it, what’s the most popular thing on the internet aside from cats? Porn! Whenever naked ladies are attached to something, people suddenly seem become more […]
Woah. This is an ongoing photo series “Neon Luminance” by Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard of San Francisco’s From the Lenz. The pair strategically dropped Cyalume glow sticks in several moon-lit waterfalls throughout Northern California and captured the mesmerizing light trails using long exposure. The result: glorious fairy-rave fantasy dreamscapes. At times, the duo tied multiple glow […]
ANIMAL is proud to welcome our new contributor Daniel Kolitz. You may have ROFLed at his renowned Printed Internet Tumblr featuring Kickstarter During the Great Depression: Very Tiny Coffin for My Firstborn Son, BREAKING: I, ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, CAN LITERALLY NOT BELIEVE HOW DRINK I AM RIGHT NOW and more. Welcome to the Printed Internet, now on ANIMAL. How’s your Klout score? […]
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 […]