Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner puts a new spin on Jackson Pollock-style paint splatter art with his latest project, “Black Hole”. Behold the patterns created when paint is flung into the air by centripetal force, and then photographed at just the right millisecond. Oefner pioneered a simple mechanism to create these images: he attached a metallic […]
A consolation prize for those of us who aren’t in Austin watching the Spring Breakers premiere and panels right now: A24 Films, the studio that released the movie, along with Silver Surfer Vaporizer, is releasing some official paraphernalia: a vape emblazoned with the film’s title, so you can get down just like your BFFs Vanessa […]
Blackout Books was the archetypical “radical bookstore,” a small project started in 1993 by a handful of people selling books from a table during punk shows at the activist center and gallery space ABC No Rio. After about a year of fundraising, they signed a lease for a storefront on Avenue B in the East […]
Bitcoins are the next best thing to using cash on the internet: totally anonymous and tied to no central bank, the digital currency allows for peer-to-peer transactions across the web without the possibility of being identified. In the past, uses for Bitcoins have been somewhat limited: web properties like WordPress and Reddit accept it as […]
Over 94% of the works on view at “Haring Miami,” which opened Wednesday at the Moore Building in Miami’s Design District, have been deemed “inauthentic” by the Keith Haring Foundation. All but 10 of the 175 works remained up at the gallery after last Friday when the foundation, which owns the intellectual property rights for […]
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has just announced that he’s releasing a heavy metal album. It’s inspired by Ai Weiwei’s speculative arrest kidnapping by the Chinese government and the 81 days he spent in detention, particularly the time when his omnipresent guards would ask him to sing songs and he didn’t know any songs, so he […]
Months after Hurricane Sandy, New York City is steadily moving towards rebuilding the areas that were most heavily damaged, including the beaches of Coney Island, Staten Island, and the Rockaways. As a part of that process, it’s enlisted the help of Garrison Architects to design and build new flood-resistant, modular, ultra-efficient structures that can function […]
As you may have heard, Williamsburg’s iconic, abandoned Domino Sugar Factory is on its way out, leading the charge toward a luxury, high-dollar future for the neighborhood. As an homage to the beautifully decaying structure, filmmaker 2e created this stop-motion animation that tells the story of an adorable, lovelorn sugar container. Previously, 2e made this […]
Last month, we found out that ANIMAL-favorite artist Jayson Musson aka Hennesy Youngman was the voice of the “Do the Harlem Shake” sample behind Baauer’s inescapable hit. Thanks to some reporting by the New York Times, we now know that the track’s other vocal sample–the “con los terroristas!” one–comes from former reggaeton artist (and current evangelical preacher) […]
Here’s the “MARTY” mural that graffiti writers LADY PINK, HOW, NOSM, FREE5, TERROR161, CRASH, DAZE, BIO, and FREEDOM finished over the weekend. The mural was a surprise birthday present for legendary graffiti photographer Martha Cooper, who told ANIMAL that “It was more awesome than awesome.” It’s only there for a few days, so take a nice, […]
