Not really keen on minimalism. Fuck I know about art. This is the most beautiful art piece ever made right here. Minimalish? LOOK AT THESE PAPERCLIPS. Shall I serenade the aesthetic simplicity of artist Dan Golden from Boston and his sepia watercolor paintings of various fucked up paperclips? How the soft photorealism transfers the charge behind these uniquely archaic […]
They’re coming… After a seventeen year dormancy period, the rare cicada “Brood II” will descend upon the East Coast in legions. Brood II cicadas — AKA locusts, AKA Satan’s pets — are set to hatch any day now. They will swarm our towns and cities, clumsily falling out of trees and into our hair and […]
No one enjoys graphic materials that expose the cruel treatment of factory farm animals. Seeing little piglets crammed into dark, filthy cages on top of their dead, rotting brethren is disturbing, horrible, and makes us sick with guilt. But does that make the animal rights activists who put together these materials “terrorists”? Yes, if several […]
The most frustrating thing about filthy, disgusting bugs is their ability to quickly reproduce. If you happen to suffer from, say, a roach infestation, you know that all you can really do is beat the little guys back. No matter how close you come to completely eradicating them, there’s always a handful left, biding their […]
Have you heard of this app Vine? It’s good. And now, WWF champion the Iron Sheik is now on Vine. This is also good. Boasting over more than 1,400 followers, the former WWF champion has already become somewhat of an internet phenomenon. He first Vined sometime this past Friday, just as Wrestlemania weekend was to getting into full swing. The […]
After years of experimenting, Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs have successfully built a unique series of cameras made from the taxidermed bodies of armadillos and tortoises. And they work! The ongoing project “Camera Collection” investigates the physical body of a camera and the impression it leaves on the light that goes through it […]
Even with two-step verification (which you should probably sign up for now), the idea of using simple text for access to your most precious online information–like email and bank accounts–is almost astoundingly simple and dated. With that in mind, a team of researchers from UC Berkley came up with a surprisingly inexpensive alternative: using brain […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, we talk to Yoshi Sodeoka about his gorgeous, psychedelic video project Sibyl. Since 2010, I’ve been working on this prog-rock inspired psychedelic video project called “Sibyl” with my friend Daron Murphy. I’ve been collecting a lot of freaky prog-rock […]
British artist Jessica Harrison created the fleshy sculpture series “Handheld” by extracting the skin off of her own arms and legs and molding them into these wonderfully unsettling mini-furniture pieces. Just kidding. The artist made casts of her hands to create synthetic skin material, but the resemblance is uncanny, no? Moving beyond a bi-directional model, Harrison proposes a […]
An anonymous group of thieves in Germany have stolen approximately 5.5 tons of Nutella from a parking lot in the small town of Bad Hersfeld. That’s about $20,710 worth of gooey chocolate-hazelnut substance! Perhaps you are asking the same question I am: What could someone possibly do with that much Nutella? […]
