Tag: Art
Though they don’t match the minimal beauty of Andrew Lynch’s brilliant single-line New York City Subway posters–which we posted about yesterday–these screenprinted wall-hangings inspired by our city’s transit system are pretty nice-looking as well. Designer Jody Williams, a New Yorker who’s been transplanted to Grand Rapids, Michigan, says the city still “inspires and influences” his […]
Are you ready for your liberation, internet young’un? Your saviors, artists Rafaël Rozendaal & Jonas Lund being your brand spankin’ new Chrome extension: Text Free Browsing. “Text Free Browsing does what the name says: once you install it, you can click on a little nerdy face to turn off all text on the internet. You can turn TextFree on and […]
ANIMAL favorite Rollin Leonard brings his group show “Parcel” to the Bronx this weekend. The traveling show’s conceit of keeping art shipping costs to a minimum bred a theme — all art is made of small parts — “bits & pieces put together to present a semblance of a whole” — folds flat and fits into cardboard tubes, including this GIGANTIC pile of MONEY by Anthony […]
As designer Andrew Lynch points out, though traditional Subway maps are extraordinarily useful, in the strictest sense, many aren’t really maps at all: proportions are skewed in favor of readability, so that the distance between two stops on the map may not truly reflect their actual proximity. With a passion for accuracy and an eye […]
He’s back. Our favorite net art rapper Yung Jake — the maker of the original “Datamosh” video and the most amazing interactive experience “E.m-bed.de/d” returns with an augmented reality video you can only view as an app we’ve been dying to share with you. “Augmented Real” — it’s FREE, don’t stress. And it also… next level. Just find “Yung […]
Take eight floppy disk drives, some MIDI software, an Arduino, and a little programming know-how, and you’ve got yourself a personal, polyphonic orchestra. At least, if you’re YouTube user MrSolidSnake745, you do. SolidSnake programs his eight little drives to perform music by systematically altering the speeds at which they run. “The concept behind this is basically […]
“As I started developing my collection, it became visually obvious that there is a trend for this genre,” says Brooklyn designer Josh Smith of his digital library of indie music. “I actually began to get confused and clicked on the wrong album, thinking it was a different band.” Keeping some of those trends in mind, […]
Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff claims that in 1989, he collected ashes from the preserved ovens of a Majdanek Holocaust-era crematoriums. He kept them bottled until two years ago. Painted in said alleged ashes, Memory Works was exhibited in a gallery in Southern Sweden in December. The show was shut down after protests from Jewish community representatives who […]
Photographers Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman use Twitter as a location scout for their haunting, beautiful images. The two artists scan the social network for tweets with location information embedded but no picture, head to those locations to shoot, then caption each photograph with the tweet’s original text. If the photographs weren’t so good, the concept […]
Last year, we caught a glimpse of Christmas trees hanging under the BQE in Brooklyn and found it intriguing. The installation was created by artist Michael Neff and for 2013, he went even bigger. He also gave us some background on the unsanctioned project, telling ANIMAL: After December 25th, New York sidewalks are crowded with […]
