David Seth Cohen is a guy who once worked as a production assistant on an Adam Sandler film (the comedian, not the racist Times Square Elmo). Sandler, who is apparently Cohen’s idol, once offered Cohen a drink after he delivered a costume to Sandler’s apartment, and Cohen declined. Fourteen years of “sleepless nights” later, Cohen […]
“It’s about the positive outcome of a disaster,” Eyebeam Art+ Technology Center resident artist Jonathan Minard tells ANIMAL. One of New York’s most inspiring creative spaces suffered $250,000 in dammage to AV equipment, books and computers from Hurricane Sandy’s toxic, corroding, 3-foot floods. It took a toil on Eyebeam’s precious archive of analog and digital media spanning 15 years of […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist Evan Roth shares a computer sketch of the renowned project EyeWriter which allowed graffiti writer TEMPTONE — almost completely paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — to create graffiti using only his tracked eye movement and project it on buildings miles away. […]
There’s been some concern lately of Skype communications being monitored without users’ consent , after the Microsoft-owned service began allowing law enforcement agencies to surveil text chats. Fueled by these privacy concerns, a group of hackers at Warsaw, Poland’s Institute of Telecommunications have come up with an ingenious sub rosa method of communication on the service: hiding […]
And it sounded so hot. Filmmaker/mind-fucker Gaspar Noé has just directed a music video for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ much-anticipated, confusingly Ke$ha-like titled “We No Who U R” single off their upcoming “Push the Sky Away” album and it sounded so hot!!! Were you expecting seizing neon titles and DMT-hued Paz De La Huerta? Sorry you didn’t get exactly what you want […]
In an effort to give its theme park patrons a more customized, interactive experience, Disney is adopting the tactics of law enforcement agencies everywhere: giving out wristbands embedded with tracking devices and information about the people wearing them. Uses for the wristbands, dubbed “MyMagic+,” range from the pedestrian–like tracking purchases and attractions visited, presumably to […]
Aw, famous actor Gérard Depardieu! Don’t want to pay France’s really rising taxes on the rich? No matter. Come, come to Russia’s sleepy charming city of Saransk and enjoy their now-famous 13% income-tax… and that’s just the advertised rate. Ask ’em about their specials, wink wink. Depardieu officially became a Russian citizen yesterday and happily, because “Depardieu said he admires Russia for […]
The New York City Department of Education warned parents Sunday that school bus drivers may be on the verge of a strike, in retaliation against the department’s announcement that it would be accepting bidding for 1,100 routes for children with disabilities, without offering standard job security measures on the new contracts. In the event of […]
In the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a proposal put forth to Staten Island’s Community Education Council would have the city hire hundreds of retired police officers to work as armed security guards in New York City schools, rotating around the city’s 1,1750 schools. It’s unclear whether the guards would be […]
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