When the internet isn’t busy sharing weird porn and cats, it can fulfill some cool goals. Last August, Kim Suozzi wrote a post on Reddit explaining her story: She was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and had only six to ten months left to live. As a believer in cryonics, Suozzi wished to raise […]
Twenty-seven years after the Chernobyl disaster, researchers are surprised to find that animals in the fall out zone don’t actually glow in the dark. Mary Mycio, author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, spent several months wandering through the exclusion zone, the evacuated area hit hardest by the fall out, and calls it a […]
Mmm… Nothing like a little eye candy to get you through a case of the Mondays! Professional junk hoarder/pop artist Jason Mecier, who recently be-gifted mankind with his trash-tacular Honey Boo-Boo collage, will have you drooling over his latest meta-masterpiece: A portrait of Channing Tatum as lovable silver-screen stripper Magic Mike, constructed entirely out of Mike […]
A Bulgarian couple in Queens with dreams of grad school are generating income by giving people the opportunity to rent out their faces to say whatever you want. For $99 a day, you tell Lou Milonov or Vessy Angelova what you want them to paint on their cheeks. (You can choose to buy Milonov’s or […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, net artist Anthony Antonellis talks about the creation of his 3d Porn HD with Retina Display. You too can be in porn… without being in porn! This is very NSFW. Obviously. You can see Anthony’s work right now at the […]
For its latest art sale, online gallery Dirty Pilot has curated a show featuring black book pages from some of graffiti’s most legendary pioneers and train painters. With work from the likes of STAY HIGH 149 (RIP), SEEN, CES, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, GHOST, COPE2, and others, no introductions are really necessary. The pages range in […]
Today, as DC hosts Obama’s Inauguration (yey, it’s not the other guy, yey!), we bring you this very Presidential time-lapse, made for the occasion. Behold, Chicago-based artist Jeremy Tubbs‘ erratic flip-book of 2,500+ photographs of the president, dated January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2012, collected “from the internet” and arranged chronologically so you can watch him… get […]
Um, so, who wants to see Skin Diamond do xxx stuff with a giant spongy yellow mascot-thing? If you answered yes, you’re either (1) that much of a fan of Skin Diamond, (2) have seen everything on the internet and hence down to see anything on the internet or (3) have forever had this very […]
Hal, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
The skateboards in Mounier Fatmi’s Maximum Sensation installation at the Brooklyn Museum look like Muslim prayer rugs… but EXTREME! (Photo: Saya Sings/Flickr) […]
