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Death Bear Will End Your Suffering

Will Sherman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:30:02 +0000

Artist Nate Hill’s Club Animals are venturing into darker territories. The normally furry and fun, candy crack-slinging bouncy riders are now easing your pain with Death Bear.

Standing 7-feet tall, clad in all-black everything, this grizzly reaper collects your mementos of tragedy and heartbreak, which he spirits away to his cave so you can move on with your life. This weekend, Death Bear will begin helping Brooklynites borough-wide forget their past.

Photos by Kevin Walsh

Club Animals Offer Free Kisses

Will Sherman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:17:51 +0000

This evening, Club Animals, the furry performance group pioneered by reformed roadkill sculptor Nate Hill, will debut a new character and performance. Complement the free bouncy rides and candy crack delivery services, Blizzard the Bunny will dole out “Bunny Butterfly Kisses.” Overcoming her physical impediment, faux eyelashes that don’t blink, Blizzard will begin “coyly attracting people and giving them a tickling kiss to remember” at 9 PM on the Union Square L platform following an hour of human-powered bouncy rides.

When Bouncy Ride Animals Attack

Will Sherman — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:18:34 +0000

Nate Hill shares the peril of being a popular public performance artist: overly enthusiastic audiences. After last night’s human-powered bouncy ride routine, the Club Animals ringmaster writes by email:

SPECIAL SHOUT TO THE KIDS WHO TACKLED ME ON THE BOUNCY RIDE TIP TONIGHT AND I TACKLED BACK ON THE L PLATFORM AND WE COMPASSIONATELY ALL COLLAPSED ON MY FREE BOUNCY RIDE SIGN AND THE GLASS SHATTERED UNDER US. THEN A RAINBOW APPEARED.

Anyone else who can tolerate strangers and turn abuse into iridescence is encouraged to audition for the group of mascot-headed artists. Club Animals is holding tryouts for “a few good animals” tomorrow, then slinging Candy Crack through the night. Next Friday, they’ll be back giving free bouncy rides on the Union Square L platform.

Photo via Club Animals

Candy Crack Delivery Service Accepting Limited Orders

Bucky Turco — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:11:35 +0000

On July 24th, Nate Hill will officially start peddling his Candy Crack between the hours of 10PM and 2AM. Sugar-craving custies that live off the L Train, between the Bedford and Montrose Avenue stops, can “call or text 347-742-2293 for delivery.” The artist will show up to people’s houses in full mascot regalia to sell the “make believe” drugs. And this is what makes the project intriguing according to Hill. That and the interplay involved in letting a complete stranger into your house. He writes:

We are inviting ourselves into your home and there is some risk there. The project’s infantilization of drugs and drug dealing is, of course strange and interesting, but this serves only as a bridge to arrange an unexpected meeting of strangers in what is a theatrical make-believe drug sale in your very own home.

Bouncy Rides Artist Announces ‘Crack’ Slinging Project

Bucky Turco — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:01:10 +0000

Nate Hill is truly a transformative artist. He’s gone from rewriting the bible to creating roadkill sculptures and giving free human-powered bouncy rides. Now, the artist and his Club Animals crew are hatching a new project: Candy Crack Delivery. Starting next month, he plans on “childizing drugs and drug dealing” by peddling a “100% sugar crack cocaine substitute that comes in different flavors (with snow cone syrup).” Hill plans on bagging up four rocks in a bag and selling them for “$1 a pop” to sweet tooth fiending custies in NYC. But it’s the distribution that really gives it a nice, albeit strange, touch. “I deliver it in a mascot head, a tuxedo, and white gloves to your house,” writes the artist.

Free Bouncy Rides With Club Animals

Will Sherman — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:38:04 +0000

Artist Nate Hill, the ringmaster of the Club Animals, writes in to let us know there will be free bouncy rides going down tonight. Check the Lorimer stop platform of the L train between 10 and 11 PM this evening.

Parting Shot: Free Bouncy Rides

Will Sherman — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:30:22 +0000

Former roadkill artist Nate Hill, mastermind of the A.D.A.M. and E.V.E. dead animal effigies, is working on a less morbid project: Club Animals. This Saturday, Club Animals, which has nothing to do with Furries, offers a human petting zoo at Brouwerij Lane Beer Store in Greenpoint and free bouncy rides on the Union Square L platform.

Photo via Club Animals