Category: Features
While the FCC continues to debate net-neutrality regulations, scientists in China and America are quietly creating a new kind of internet, encyrpted by bursts of light instead of the standard long string of numbers. Revelations gleaned from the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden showed that even the largest tech companies with the best security were vulnerable to […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. This week we have a playlist from Brooklyn-based band The Church Committee. The band has brought […]
Ded, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile ME, a master of parody. He has been making a name for himself by reappropriating logos to accommodate his two letter moniker and his current collaboration with fellow artist Clint Mario is killing the game. The pair have […]
August, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, newly Brooklyn-based artist Jacob Ciocci, a multi-media artist, formerly Paper Rad and now working with Extreme Animals. Here he talks about his video album, “The Urgency.” “THE URGENCY” started as 6 to 8 new compositions by Extreme […]
Grayson, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Mashup maestro 2 Mello noticed that Final Fantasy 6 and Wu-Tang’s 36 Chambers were released around the same time, so he mixed the soundtrack of the classic RPG with Wu-rhymes and the results are awesome. Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) came flying out of Shaolin on November 9th, 1993 and Final Fantasy 6 was released in November of 1994. Music moved […]
Kim, NYC. (Photo: Tom) […]
New York-based rapper F. Virtue and Juan Deuce have teamed up to create New York Strangers, an album five years in the making that collaborates with ANIMAL beat master Falside, J57, and Dick Van Dick, among others. The album ponders everything from partying and rap, to love and relationships, to grandparents. It’s the latter track, […]
