Year: 2013
“Your new YouTube series speaks to me so hard, Jayson!” “Oh, are you a sensitive artist type?” “Yes. And you know how I love painting.” “Sensitive artist types need shelter from the storm of today,” Jayson Musson tells ANIMAL. The New York artist who exhibited Coogie canvases at Salon 94, curated/made a bonfire at Family Business and is the man behind […]
The announcement came abruptly, with little fanfare, and from a seemingly unlikely source: @horse_ebooks, the internet’s most beloved spambot, and Pronunciation Book, a less popular but equally obsessed-over YouTube channel, were works of conceptual art. Since 2011, the Twitter account Horse_ebooks has been run by Jacob Bakkila, an artist and creative director currently working for […]
No matter how far smartphone technology may progress, we are still left wanting something more, like being able to charge your phone in complete wilderness. We’ve all been there, with a phone battery dwindling at “less than 10%,” unable to take that very important photo or waiting to tweet that perfectly composed string of 140 […]
ANIMAL’s Game Plan feature asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke to independent developer Neven Mrgan about Blackbar, an indie iOS game in which players fill in the blanks of communications censored by an overbearing government. Blackbar is not a deceptively […]
If you’ve been following along with the Bruce High Quality Foundation’s recent contributions to MOCAtv’s YouTube channel you’ll know that they’ve already covered many of the basics, like how to properly hang a painting and how to screen-print in your bathroom. And now… The strange thing about ready-mades is that I’ve never been able to come up with a […]
Sky Ferreira is a singer. “Everything Is Embarrassing,” etc. Ok then. She was ok at singing with DIIV at Basilica Hudson? She just released a music video for “You’re Not the One” directed by Grant Singer and made largely out of pink and purple strobe light, her entrancing gyrations and Tony Scott homages. It’s true! Aside from Sky Ferreira’s Patricia […]
The city says it will no longer shell out cash for a program that houses people displaced by Superstorm Sandy in hotels. FEMA has been reimbursing NYC for the emergency housing measure, but the federal agency is cutting off aid at the end of the month, which is expected to affect about 350 people. City […]
Someone on Tumblr is rendering iconic photographs in Play-Doh. You can find them at photographsrenderedinplaydoh.tumblr.com. They’re quiet doting and expressive. From Play-Doh remixes of Grace Jones’ mesmerizing Jean Paul Goude-stretched form to that irritating kid with the grenade by Diane Arbus, this ardent renderer appears to be on a roll and even takes requests! I just […]
Archibald, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artist DCEVE decorated a Williamsburg rooftop that’s especially viewable from the J/M/Z trains, so straphangers enjoy. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
