That headline might not come as much of a surprise, since there are always goddamn rats everywhere, but right now, there are more goddamn rats than usual, and it’s all Hurricane Sandy’s fault. The floods (combined with the cold) made the rats move elsewhere and inside buildings, now they have more garbage for their enjoyment […]
La Pietà Rondanini, a sculture Michelangelo worked on for 12 years and still left unfinished when he died in 1564, is going to jail — for now. Despite some “vociferous opposition” from art historians, the Milanese culture commissioner has ordered to move the work from it’s swank home at the Castello Sforzesc where 350,000 visitors […]
First turbo-speed cockroaches, now sex-crazed moths? LORD HAVE MERCY. In attempt to improve the navigational skills of robots, Japanese researchers devised this utterly disturbing contraption that allows male silkmoths to steer themselves towards female moths. Well, actually just their pheromones. What a tease! The experiment is part of a study on the sensory motor and tracking skills of […]
The Vine app has recently launched — allowing users to easily shoot and share six second video clips, effortlessly. Naturally, it’s been flooded with babies, puppies, penises and food. And penises. Also, boobs. The NSFW vines can be easily located and so, yesterday, the app slapped itself with an NC-17 rating, oooooh. And so, ANIMAL is proud […]
In an effort to bring more citizen oversight to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, the New York Civil Liberties Union has brought its innovative Stop and Frisk Watch mobile app to the iPhone. Using the app, New Yorkers can take video recordings of any stop they witness (not when they’re being stopped themselves–relax, NYP), then […]
Early this morning, police in Brooklyn were trying to wrangle a goat running around Bed-Stuy, because apparently that’s part of a policeman’s job now. The cops were (predictably) failing at it, until Seydou Ndiaye, a security guard who used to herd goats in West Africa, lent his services and stopped the horned menace that had […]
NYC’s Public Transit Union really, really wants people to stop dying in the subway. While the MTA is busy working on some high-tech, costly solutions to prevent subway deaths — some of which will allegedly take decades to implement — the Public Transit Union has come up with an immediate plan of action: blood-splattered “Metro(death)Cards.” Yes, this is […]
Increasingly, more and more auction houses are becoming receptive to selling work by street artists, but they usually do so by folding a few lots into their contemporary art sales. But not at Doyle New York. They let the street art genre stand on its own and for their inaugural auction last October, 70 percent […]
Happy birthday, London Underground. The world’s oldest subterranean railway hits big one-five-oh this year. To commemorate, artist Mark Wallinger was commissioned to make 270 unique works, one for each station in the network. Ten in this new series “Labyrinth” have just been unveiled. The stark black-on-white maze designs are simple but alluring — perhaps too […]
Oh, look, Lee Hardcastle made a music video. From the claymation extraordinaire who brought us Evil Dead II with cats, here is “BLVCK MVGIC” from Kill The Noise. It’s horrifying. No, really. There’s face slicing, gut carving, crucifixions, “witch” burnings and an ironic ending. Ironic as in HORRIFYING. This is the exploitation grindhouse level of violent. I’m sorry. But […]
