For yet another artistic example of why Vine is the most exciting social media platform going, take a look at the music video for Masters in France’s “Flexin,” which automatically populates itself with clips based tagged with words from the song’s lyrics. If a verse includes the word “high,” for example, and you once Vined […]
The NYPD has created a new facial recognition unit, which specializes in identifying subjects using photographs, according to a DNAinfo report. Established late last year, the eight-officer unit uses software to scan for faces in Facebook, Instagram, and surveillance camera images, then match them against the mugshots of known criminals. Thankfully, a facial match doesn’t […]
When we did our roundup of ridiculous photos from Mayor Bloomberg’s Flickr account last month, we grabbed a few of the images from the annual Inner Circle dinner–NYC’s over-the-top, broadway-themed answer to the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner. This year’s event went down Saturday night, and while no bits were quite as rich as the […]
Charles, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
While attempting to investigate a mysterious grouping of balloons in Gowanus, Vanishing New York stumbled upon an even deeper mystery. (Photo: Vanishing New York) […]
“No, I didn’t. But they’re pretty great.” That’s what artist Tom Sanford told ANIMAL when we noticed a similarity between his fleshy, parodic style (see celebs on a stripper, right) and that of these “controversial” Ford of India ads (see gagged and tied celebs/strippers in trunks, left and center). The rapey Russ Meyer-esque aesthetics of Berlusconi […]
“Electrosmog” is what artist Jean-Pierre Aube calls the electromagnetic fields generated by the radio frequency spectrum used by telecommunication systems. Though we can’t see it, electrosmog lurks in every city — it’s essential for everyone from emergency public transportation services to you and me texting each other. Fascinated by the idea of this invisible “pollution” […]
Ryoji Ikeda’s newest stunning project superposition combines his classic hypnotic, pulsating, pure data visualisations with a live, interactive element. Watch as “operators” interrupt his scrolling code and calibrating sine waves with projections of them live-punch-filling vintage forms, surveying heat maps of mysterious geology and solving crossword puzzles. superposition is a project about the way we understand the reality of nature on […]
What’s Montana up to these days? Making use of dead animals that got hit by vehicles! The Senate voted 33-15 in favor of the law allowing the roadkill meat to be donated to charities and fed to the needy if the animal is salvageable. For the record, I’d totally eat elk that was clipped by […]
To kick off the launch of their collaborative spring collection, clothing designers Daryl K and Steven Alan enlisted street artist MARE 139 — with an assist from artist Jimmy Raskin — to paint live over denim at the Steven Alan store on 10th avenue. The apparel and artwork will be auctioned off on eBay (links […]
