Over the past several months, ANIMAL has been documenting the demolition of 5 Pointz, a legendary building in Queens which served as an aerosol playground for spray paint-wielding artists since 1993. The property will eventually be developed into a condo complex, but first the site had to be fully cleared. So we bribed a nearby […]
Photographer Joe Capra travels the world to document natural beauty for his blog Scientifantastic. In his latest piece, Capra journeyed to Greenland and Iceland to capture the arctic Aurora over 10 nights. The final product is gorgeous in that highest-of-the-high-res way. Auroras occur when charged particles (electrons and protons) cause ionisation in the atmosphere. The subsequent tripped […]
This nice-looking new timelapse focuses on the NYC’s most played-out neighborhood: Midtown. And though its iconic skyscrapers, theaters, and, uh, video ads are well-worn subjects even for tourists, the area’s bright lights and constant bustle do make for pretty excellent timelapse material, and the camera-work on this thing is stunning. There are a few stray […]
The graffiti in this timelapse video is great–Australian writer SOFLES absolutely crushes a complex of abandoned buildings–but just as impressive is the video itself. Shooter/editor Selina Miles keeps the camera moving around the buildings throughout the complex, which, for timelapse photography, is both technically challenging and just really nice to look at. Take a look […]
As far as weather goes, rotating supercells are no small talk banality: With their powerful, perpetually spinning mesocyclones or updrafts, they are the least common and most dangerous of all thunderstorms. But this didn’t stop photographer/ storm chaser Mike Olbinski from driving through the pinnacle of a supercell near Booker, Texas to shoot the unearthly phenomenon […]
Today, Google released the latest in a slew of nifty maps-related toys: a set of HTML5-powered timelapses that show how our planet’s landscape has changed since 1984. Google’s people apparently sifted through 2 million satellite images to find the clearest photos possible, then assembled them chronologically into these looping animations. Watch Las Vegas spreading like a virus […]
Eric Ulrich is a 30-year-old Republican city councilman representing District 32, which includes conservative parts of Queens like Ozone Park, Howard Beach and Breezy Point. A big part of his political career has been washing graffiti off the streets of his district. On Monday, he announced that he will be allocating an additional $10,000 this […]
“The art world is still a boys’ club,” artist Mollie McKinley told ANIMAL. Before a nude performer bent herself over Z Behl’s giant-horned sculpture and the crowd flooded in, we crashed the instal of this year’s massive Brucennial group show in the Meatpacking Disctrict. Soon, the lines would stretch around the block in the freezing cold and the GoPro we taped to the […]
Snow is a scourge. It has held our city in a virtual stranglehold for months — this weekend’s pleasant weather notwithstanding — turning sidewalks into skating rinks, screwing up parking, and keeping the Department of Sanitation from picking up trash. And there’s more coming this week. But that doesn’t change the fact that it can […]
For these beautiful, dreamlike portraits, artist Nick Criscuolo takes inkjet printouts of existing images, then modifies them to his liking. Water “melts” the ink, new pigments are added, and scratches contrast the bleeding, amorphous pools of color with sharply-defined lines. The highly physical process combined with the emphasis on widely available consumer technology makes for painting that […]
