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October 13, 2014 Marina Galperina

“Color Separated” is a new music video for Swedish electrofunk producer Beem,  directed and animated by Sam Rolfes (profiled in ANIMAL’s Artist Notebook here). Click to play above, in all its gyrating, moshing, dayglo-horror glory. “The vid was created over a month of tearing apart the gnarled 3D objects and environments that litter my hard drive from previous […]

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September 29, 2014 Marina Galperina

The video above demonstrates a nifty educational resource developed at the Harvard Biodesign Lab for the developers of the soft robotics field. Watch pressurized “fingers” bend around objects, a soft rubbery thing crawl across the table on its own and some stretchy stuff stretching, while being live-configured through computer interface. We’re sure it has a lot of very technical, very […]

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July 11, 2014 Marina Galperina

Two brothers from Bay Ridge have been amassing YouTube hits on their channel OckTV in a series of pranks, like grabbing phones out of strangers’ hands, sitting on subway commuters’ laps and going “Yo dawg, you got a problem?” at people. Etayyim “ET” Etayyim and Mohammed “Moe” Etayyim say they’re “not trying to get hurt,” even though they […]

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July 16, 2013 Andy Cush

Add “gymnast” to the list of jobs humans will definitely lose to robots within the next few decades. Look at this thing! 10.0! 11.0! All I need is a little McKayla Maroney face at the end. Seen on Hacker News; made by Japanese roboticist Hinamitetu. If you have the time, take a look at the rest […]

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May 29, 2013 Marina Galperina

There’s a brand new artist interview video series on Netartnet.net and, as ANIMAL’s Art Editor, I’m jealous. Artist Anthony Antonellis’s Netartnet.net project — “quick access to netart listings… all netart gallery bookmarks and RSS feeds in one place” — celebrated its one year anniversary this week, with more than 300 exhibitions and 1000 artists logged and with archives reaching back into […]

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February 8, 2013 Andy Cush

From the people who brought you that slow-mo snowman snuff film last month comes this, another seasonally-appropriate documentation of carnage. Watch as a mysterious masked lady takes axes, arrows, and explosives to a variety of Valentine’s Day paraphernalia, and try not to let it break your little heart. […]

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February 1, 2013 Samer Kalaf

Vine, the new app for all your six-second-video-sending needs, is sweeping the nation. And being invaded by porn, naturally, because it’s the internet. The app can be rather fun, but you only get as many short videos as your friends will send you. What if you just wanted to watch endless Vines (is that what […]

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January 23, 2013 Marina Galperina

AAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!! And now, one of the few cat videos you shall ever see “breaking” on ANIMAL. Behold. A cat. That eats. With cat-hands. Like they were human-hands. Eating. Like a human. Very human eating happening. THE HELL. Tipster Leah sent this video of Kingston the cat to us today. My Bengal eating breakfast this morning. This […]

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