Category: Features
Romeo, Bushwick. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
There’s a wall on Kenmare Street off Mulberry Street that’s so heavily bombed, it looks more like a section of the Berlin Wall in its last days than your typical NYC graffiti. The sheer amount of spray paint appears as if it took years to accumulate, with layers upon layers of tags and throw-ups applied […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Seattle-based artist Sean Pearson talks about the road, nightmares and his piece “I don’t know where he came from or why.” I’m usually inspired by daydreaming, especially during something exciting, like being on the road. This is how […]
“Enjoy the Science,” the newest release from 8 Bit Operators includes Depeche Mode’s greatest hits, as covered by C64-remix, gwEm, Herbert Weixelbaum, Aonami, Bacalao, Gameboy Music Club, Firestarter and more. We kind of wish there wasn’t any singing on it, especially not in auto-tune on ComputeHer’s “Strange Love” but Inverse Phase’s “Behind the Wheel” is pretty great. Stream on Bandcamp. For […]
Chinaski, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“The future is now,” video games companies want us to believe. But if “now” is just the present, shouldn’t the real future be more impressive than Xboxes and PlayStations and Wiis? During Los Angeles’s annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, Echo Park gallery iam8bit launched an exhibition exploring “The Future of Gaming,” as illuminated by some of the […]
Ashutosh, Times Square. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
William Basinski played his recent work Cascade at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn last night. The sold out performance of the evening-long work was accompanied by visuals — a field of bright blue blurs, dulling, darkening, slowly bursting in small flares. The single looped element of the work shared that glow — a softened, distorted piano, a […]
There’s brownies, chocolate bars, butane hash oil, you can smoke, you can vape, now there’s another way to take cannabis, vaginally. Foria, made by a California collective The Aphrodite Group, has made a cannabis infused “sensual enhancement oil” that can purported enhance sexual pleasure. As “Stacy” says on a testimonial posted on their site: “I had […]
The Underground Pigeon, Williamsburg Bridge. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
