Once upon a time in the long long ago, record sales and terrestrial radio play were the only things that mattered for charting the performance of a particular single–if a song sold well and got radio play (and the two usually go hand-in-hand), it charted. If it didn’t, it didn’t. Then came the internet, and […]
Hey, sexy internet. Thank you for all your amazing submissions to the… We here at ANIMAL’s #VeryShortFilmFest have had a great time exploring Vine as a social and artistic platform, without asking their permission. We liked those arty and/or XXX-ish 6-minute videos you made. Our awesome judges — Stoya, Casey Neistat, Clayton Cubitt, Nate “Igor” Smith and Zoetica Ebb — […]
Start-up TaxiTreats has a nifty scheme: by this summer, select NYC taxis will be equipped with “Vengo” — the vending machine that sells everything from gum to lotions to… condoms. The proposed machines will accept credit cards and will operate via touch screen. Er, don’t worry, Vengo will also offer hand sanitizer. While the company has yet […]
The Harlem Shake is all but dead (hopefully), and people might be voraciously searching for the new horse to beat past death. Gallon smashing–in which one carelessly tosses two gallons of liquid in the air near unsuspecting supermarket patrons as he pretends he slipped– is not it. As hilarious as this is, please don’t make […]
See how long you can go on watching this supercut before the titular phrase goes from sounding like a normal colloquialism to some kind of meaningless tonal utterance. I lasted about 30 seconds. Just watch it! It’s a n– nevermind. […]
Students at the University of Surrey in the UK taking a Practical and Biomedical Bacteriology course imprinted their smartphone screens onto petri dishes with grow media to see what kind of bacteria was lurking. Three days later, they found #art. The colorized result are not just alluring abstract designs, there are narrative and performative elements […]
Annette Jung of Berlin-based Talking Animals recently made this 30-second animation of Michael Jackson dancing, using only LEGOs. Complete with the Billie Jean outfit and those token weird breathing sounds of his, “Lego Dance” has all kinds of nostalgic appeal. …Familiar? […]
Selfless Portraits is a project in which people across the world create an artistic rendering of a random stranger’s Facebook profile picture, in exchange for having their own photo art-ified as well. They’ve received lots of submissions, most of which are charmingly amateurish, but there are some pretty decent entries as well. Check out a few […]
Times Square is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world. But it’s easy to get distracted by the big fancy lights and blinking advertisements so here is a gallery of all of the little things you might have missed, close up. Really close up, using that special hacked camera again. Check back every […]
Revel in the excess of this newest Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers trailer. Now with 117% more drug imagery, 122% more signs that James Franco’s RiFF RAFF-esque “Alien” is definitely sleazing up on into his entire runaway teen-girl robber harem, and 152% longer soliloques about crime paying. Also, intentional boob. Here’s all your Spring Breakers stuff. March 22nd. […]
