Today marked the 36th Annual Three Kings Day Parade which included camels, puppets, and apparently, Scientologists. (Photo: Dave Bledsoe/Flickr) […]
The Holy City has a seriously unholy plight to deal with nowadays. Starting this Wednesday, visitors to the Vatican have not been able to use credit and debit cards for purchases due to a new decision by Italy’s central bank, brought on by concerns over inadequate money laundering. Italy’s central bank has refused clearance to […]
Echo Nest developer and all-around music-hacker extraordinaire Paul Lamere’s latest creation, entitled Boil the Frog, uses algorithms to create a smooth, gradual playlist from one artist to another, no matter the genre. That means we can finally find the six degrees of separation from Taylor Swift to Tchaikovsky, Lady Gaga to Madonna, or Nazi black […]
A 25-year-old woman just used this season’s trending excuse for causing a scene in the middle of a busy highway in Hallandale Beach, Florida (of course.) Why was Arlene Mena tossing traffic cones at a random driver, spitting into his face and scaring the kids in his back seat? “Performance art.” But of course. See, Ms. Mena was […]
This is what rap beef looks like in the social media age: formerly friendly-seeming MCs exchange not-so-friendly words on Twitter, a track is dropped, another track is dropped, and another track is dropped, all in the scope of about 24 hours. “Shut the Fuck Up” is the latest from Angel Haze, and the hasty construction […]
Remember Daito Manabe? The Tokyo-based artist who hooked up his face to a series of electrical wires, which stimulated muscles, choreographing his many twitches and blinks to music? Oh yeah. That was fun. The Creator’s Project goes further into hacking the human body and beyond with this video portrait of Daito himself. See how his interests in […]
Here’s another fresh “all time 10” video from All Time 10s, yey. They’ve shown us a round-up of famous plundered body parts, among other things, and now, here they are with the 10 most important numbers that you were too preoccupied with whatever to learn in high school. From Avogadro’s Constant, to Speed of Light, to the Golden Ratio… […]
A review of today in ANIMAL so far: rap music, art-damaged punk, and vaguely unsettling, abstract video works. Now, for something that combines all three: noise-rap crew Death Grips created this 12-minute, mostly silent film to accompany “Come Up and Get Me,” the leadoff track of their latest album, NO LOVE DEEP WEB. The film’s moody […]
When Art.sy first emerged as a start-up, there were several attention grabbing points, including their Pandora-like Art Genome Project to guide your cruising (and purchasing) experience of 21,000+ artworks from over 4,500 artists, as per your personal taste pegged to 1211+ characteristics (“genes”). And, of course, that name. Such a cute name — “the shortest spellable English language domain that […]
The fastest-escalating rap beef of all time continues today, with the release of Azealia Banks’ “No Problems,” in response to Angel Haze’s “On the Edge.” On first listen, Angel wins handily. Azealia basically dropped a boilerplate Azealia song–all ravey siren synths and stuttering triplet flows–which, removed from the context of this Twitter-fueled feud, probably wouldn’t even […]
