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March 18, 2013 Samer Kalaf

Did you ever want to know the biggest causes of death in the 20th century, but from an infographic complete with cheerful colors? Information Is Beautiful has you covered. With clean, peppy design, you’ll almost forget you’re looking at the statistics behind millions of deaths. View a full-size version here. […]

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Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Organ Armani explains his meta, Facebook-centric, short-term-nostalgia-heavy Gallery Online project — specifically “No Net Today, My Love Has Gone Away.” i’ve been doing a lot of reading. on facebook. on my phone. i started out my current project from […]

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Julia Dawidowicz

Just when we thought the payphone was a silly, useless antiquity, the City of New York has introduced a sleek new communication game-changer. New Yorkers, meet NYFi, the winner of the Reinvent Payphone Design Challenge. Chosen by Facebook voters from a number of space-agey design proposals, the NYFi is not just a public phone, but […]

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Andy Cush

In an effort to combat fake IDs, New York State will issue a new driver license beginning July of this year. The new cards will be made of hard polycarbonate (as opposed to the old soft, bendable make) and feature a black-and white photo. According to state officials, the IDs be “virtually impossible to forge,” […]

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Marina Galperina

OH MY GOD THIS SKULL HAS BOOBS IN IT SHIELD YOUR INNOCENT EYES EVERYBODY. ArtInfo reports that the blue-chip Saatchi Gallery has been censored by Facebook when the Salvador Dalí x Philippe Halsman’s 1951 classic Voluptas Mors was removed for being “offensive” because OH MY GOD BOOBS BOOBS AND BUTTS IN ART THIS IS TERRIBLE. “We never […]

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Andy Cush

First they came for the large, sugary drinks, and I did not speak out as I am not a large, sugary drink. Then they came for the novelty lighters, and I did not speak out as I am not a novelty lighter. Then they came for the styrofoam, and I did not speak out as […]

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Andy Cush

Floyd v. City of New York, a class-action lawsuit that’s the most wide-ranging of three recent cases against the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice, begins hearing today. The suit, which centers around a Bronx medical student, challenges the constitutionality of the entire stop-and-frisk process, and alleges that officers are pressured to meet quotas, unfairly biased black and […]

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Andy Cush

Following the (possibly temporary) demise of the much-loved/hated Fung Wah bus line, regular New York-Boston commuters have been left with a void in their transportation options. Entrepreneur Joel Azumah hopes to change that with his Interstate Bus company, on which he hopes to send four coaches a day to Beantown at $20 each way, but with […]

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Allison Bagg

D’Angelo, Tudor City. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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March 15, 2013 Marina Galperina

This totally normal dude ♥s New York. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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