Tag: Pigs
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, we’re excited to premiere the trailer for “Pig Movie” by sound artist Kate Levitt and video artist Miles Pflanz. The film was written by the prisoners of the Lincoln Correctional Facility. In spring of 2014, we were […]
Poster Boy is staying busy since adjusting a Chelsea parking lot billboard to read “WTF is street art anyway?” In mourning Eric Garner, the 43-year-old Staten Island man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a plainclothes officer, the artist took to altering a police vehicle with a much more somber statement. On Flickr, he accompanied the image […]
The Templeton Rye Distillery in Iowa is trying to raise pigs that taste like whiskey. Don’t get too upset (or excited). This isn’t some crazy genetic engineering. The pigs won’t even get drunk. The speculative project basically involves feeding the pigs whiskey-making ingredients and hoping for the best. The Spirit Business reports: The pigs will not […]
Earlier this week, many were buzzing about Seattle-based butcher William von Schneidau’s pigs and their weed diet. Upon closer examination, it seems that this diet has little to no effect on the pigs. The unfortunate pork-products-in-progress currently being fed mostly scraps such as leaves, stems, and root bulbs. This allows the farmer to charge upwards of $120 for a […]
Artist Helen Pynor is not a shock artist. Yes, she managed to get a fresh human brain for the “Brains: The mind as matter” installation at the Wellcome Collection in London last year, but her projects aren’t sensationalistic. They’re just unusually corporal. The Body is a Big Place is Pynor’s large-scale, immersive installation. The underwater sequences were shot with members of the Melbourne organ […]
Somewhere in Louisiana, there’s a home-made drone whirling through the sky towards an unsuspecting pig. Engineers/farmers Cy Brown and James Palmer call it the “Dehogiflier.” When the R/C airplane + thermal imaging camera COMBO OF DEATH spots the pig, it’s only a matter of time before a quick shot from a rifle with a night vision scope takes oinky […]
Researchers at Brown University have successfully invented a wireless brain sensor, an implantable interface that translates thoughts into commands to a computer. This is the first ever wireless version of such a device; in the past, brain-computer interfaces always required a number of bulky cords. A wireless device like this has the potential to vastly […]
