Remember the first time you tasted freeze-dried astronaut ice cream from the science museum gift shop, wondering… Where does space food come from? Why does it taste so funny? What is it like to eat while drifting through the cosmos? NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory (SFSL) is responsible for making sure that astronauts can munch on a […]
Calm down. Those aren’t real cigarrettes. Photographer Frieke Janssens used chalk, cheese sticks, candles and incense to stage these fictional and yet, gracefully unnerving portraits of smoking children. She says she was prompted by the viral speared of videos of East-Asian toddler smokers on the internet, as well as complaints that the Belgium-based photographer heard from […]
This week, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the winner of a contest to design the future of NYC living — 300-some-odd-square-foot micro apartments, packing in more people into smaller spaces with higher ceilings and still comically high rents. (Bloomberg plans to skirt legislation that prohibits building new apartments smaller than 400 square feet by constructing the first […]
From the people who brought you that feature-length supercut of NYC destruction comes Police Mortality, a feature-length supercut of police violence and brutality. Check out the trailer above. “It’s about an existential crisis in the NYPD that results in terrorism, communism, OWS and total freedom,” the film’s creators told ANIMAL via email. “It stars Will Smith, Bruce […]
Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg GOT YOUR FACE! No, really. Remember that strand of hair you left on in the bathroom stall, that piece of gum you dropped in a bodega, the cigarette butt you chucked on the side of the street? Yoink. With the help of the community biolab at Genspace in Brooklyn, Dewey-Hagborg build a 3D modeling software that analyzing the […]
A dolphin is currently stranded inside Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, one of the most polluted waterways in the country. Witnesses spotted the animal near the Union Street Bridge at around 12:30. It’s unclear how the dolphin got there, but the canal does empty into a series of waterways that eventually reaches the Atlantic Ocean. “It was […]
Happy Friday! Mykki Blanco dropped the video for Cosmic Angel highlight “Kingpinning” today. It’s a romp through runways, bedrooms, and darkened New York City streets, and it’s fucking awesome. What I like most about the video is that it highlights both sides of the rapper’s persona–the gothy, threatening “Join My Militia” Mykki, and the shade-throwing, take-the-club-over “Wavy” […]
Unlike the days of old when only initiated members were allowed inside its hallowed halls, the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the State of New York has increasingly cast away its veils of secrecy and opened its doors to the public. They even do tours. Here’s what the inside of the fraternal […]
It’s not just Romney and Obama anymore! Thanks to dropping costs and the nagging sense of terrible shame that comes with entering a sex shop no matter how liberated you are, custom, 3D-printed sex toys are now officially a “phenomenon,” according to Dezeen. There’s MakerLove and Dongiverse, two alternate-universe versions of Thingiverse that specialize in […]
Alright, who wants some gear? ANIMAL favorites Tod Seelie and Ricky Powell, along with San Francisco photog Ken Goto are judging the “Streets of Chrome” street photography contest. Submit by Feb. 14th and get a Fujifilm X-Pro1 camera with a 35mm F/1.4 lens and a Chrome Niko Camera Backpack. “Photo submissions will be judged based on creativity, originality, and ability to capture […]
