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September 9, 2014 Sophie Weiner

MiKandi, the company responsible for creating some of the first-ever Google Glass porn, have a new product on the market. Fap Ninja is an Android app featuring an animated Japanese woman who is on a quest to achieve the world’s greatest orgasm. And you, the player, are responsible for getting her there. The mobile game […]

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May 16, 2014 Marina Galperina

Here is Pharrell in a music video for his remix of “Jellyfish Eyes,” the theme song to artist Takashi Murakami’s upcoming feature film by the same name. The film is live-action, but this video is mostly animated, featuring an auto-tuned anime babe cha-cha-ing suggestively, lots of robots doing the robot in unison, smiling spaceships/L.E.D. dance platforms, […]

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May 13, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Bartkira — a crowd-sourced reimagining of Katsuhiro Otomo’s “Akira” with the characters from Matt Groening’s The Simpsons — has reached its next stage of evolution. A year ago, it popped up as an ingeniously wacky Tumblr project by James Harvey and Ryan Humphrey. Since then, the project has exploded both online and IRL, with over 500 participating artists and recently, the project was shown at […]

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April 21, 2014 Marina Galperina

Mind Game director Yuasa Masaaki directed an episode of Adventure Time! Watch a preview clip above. You will learn about the circle of life DEATH. You know when Adventure Time whisks you away into a land of whimsy and magical surrealism and existentialist suffering? This one is manic and decidedly one of the darker episodes. And Finn’s […]

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January 20, 2014 Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Chicago-based new media artist Jennifer Chan talks about the Yaoi roots of her video piece P.A.U.L. This is my Downloads folder. I collect digital things compulsively. I feel a strange attachment to digital files–or the way they should […]

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September 19, 2013 Kyle Chayka

100 years ago, mysterious humanoid figures called Titans, ranging from 16 to 50 feet tall, appeared on Earth and began to decimate humanity. These giants ate any people in their wake, feasting their way across the landscape until the remainder of humankind barricaded itself behind a series of cramped concentric walls that keep the Titans […]

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