Category: Features
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Chicago-based artist Sam Rolfes talks about his typeface/word world building series, which recalls monolithic islands, bathroom lighter tags and 3D scans of his childhood home. Rather than manipulating the kind of polychrome, malformed figure I normally obsess […]
Cicero, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Aby, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan 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 with Jane Friedhoff about Slam City Oracles, a colorful game with a strong message. Being a woman is hard, but “being a woman in game […]
Iggy, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Tyler, Midtown. (Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“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. Electronic producer and art troll Nick Koenig, better known as Hot Sugar, has been busy […]
Wooley, Washington Square Park. (Photo: Alvaro Blanes) […]
Bruce, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s a “tribute to everyone’s favorite New Yorkers – Roger Clark and Pat Kiernan of NY1,” exclaimed punk band The Tracys. It’s a happy little tune about the newsmen’s on-air camaraderie — “Roger’s got the microphone/What’s he gonna do?/Pat is gonna have to see this through” — and even shouts out transit reporter Jamie Stetler (formerly “Shupak!”). NY1 […]