Category: Features
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Scorsese ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ superb muah true 2 brand muah. Started from the bottom now there’re Leo & Jonah stealing all the money because Wall Street. (Stealing is bad) Salesmanship. Riches. Intrigue. Vice. (Vice is bad) “Pharmacy on wings” !!!! (Drugs are very bad) Like fucking & stealing & drugs & brokerbros all sticking their […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, New York artist CERN talks about creating his recent murals. I knew I would have to paint something fast due to various time restraints and something that would work with the height and point of view of […]
“Krokodil” is the street-name for a concoction of gunk to democratize opioid-making. It’s in the news again because it made it to America and, allegedly, New York. We have the “Heroin Highway,” so why bother? Why try for yourself, when every news report is showing the stuff melting limbs? Why does Krokodil specifically cause people to rot? Chemically, we’re […]
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 Nicolò Tedeschi and Pietro Riva from Italian indie studio Santa Ragione about MirrorMoon EP, a dreamy PC game in which players navigate alien planets using reflective […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s Listen In comes from the minimal electronic duo Mount Kimbie, who compiled a playlist full of hip-hop, vocal jazz, and dance music of all kinds. The closer, Prince Far I’s “Plant […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Andrew Ohanesian talks about all the planning that went into The House Party — an installation of a suburban house inside the Boiler Gallery in Brooklyn last year, which we may or may not have had a […]
Toxicologists at the Banner Good Samaritan Poison Control Center in Phoenix say that they “spotted symptoms consistent with krokodil” OH FUCK NO NO NO PLEASE NO. Until now, krokodil was just a disgusting Russian meme, Reddit fodder, Vice doc topic de jour, etc… If you were one of the 5% of drug users in Russia who […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week we’re featuring Jonathan Clancy, an taly-based rocker who makes lean, psychedelic guitar pop as His Clancyness. The playlist, if I do say so, is excellent, digging into Italian bands like Diaframma, […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Los Angeles-born, Brooklyn-based street artist Buff Monster talks about creating his new mural in Williamsburg. Read about his process and check out our video interview below. I rarely ever draw, and when I do, it’s always very very […]
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 […]
