Category: Features
“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. Craft Spells sophomore LP, Nausea, was created during a difficult time in songwriter Justin Vallesteros’ […]
Byron, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
CloudChamber is an online project which takes submitted Soundcloud links and plays them into the Reverberation Chamber at the National Physical Laboratory in London. The sound of your mp3 reverberating against the walls of this chamber is recorded, processed, and re-uploaded to Soundcloud so you can compare it to the original. CloudChamber describes the mechanics […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Crispin talks about Charon — a technically complex year-long project creating a gorgeous sculpture derived from a flight path of a drone. In short, Charon is an interactive installation and sculpture created […]
Ziggy and Anton, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Esther and Miriam, Stuyvesant Town. (Photo: @Michael Weinfeld) […]
Jaimie, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
At the recent E3 Conference, Nintendo announced Mario Maker. The new interactive element for WiiU will allow players to customize their own 2D Super Mario courses from scratch, “legitimizing” a practice already developed by hardcore modders and artists alike. Why did Nintendo suddenly decide to allow gamers this interactive experience? Journalist and game critic Leigh Alexander suggests that […]
Tex and Lucy, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Because you can never have too many meme-y programming languages, here’s Lauri Hartikka’s ArnoldC — “an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from different Schwarzenegger movies.” Check it out on Github to [pretend to] learn how it works. Some sample terms: If If BECAUSE I’M GOING TO SAY PLEASE Else BULLSHIT EndIf YOU HAVE […]
