All Videos | Original Video Portraits of Interesting New Yorkers

Danny Jacobs

Boxer

"Inside the ring I have a warrior's mentality. I'm out for blood. I'm out for vengeance."
Veronica Vasicka

Minimal Wave

"I think this music is the soundtrack to city living. To me it sounds really organic even though it's made with machines."
Fred Cray

Photographer

"Setting myself on fire was a trial and error process. There was some pain..."
Josh Hadar

Bike Builder

"This has become an obsession, a sickness. I have about 30 different ideas for bikes in my head at any given time."
Molly Crabapple

Artist

"I am an illustrator, which in the art world, is very much equivalent to whore."
Lorie Karnath

President, The Explorers Club

"Members from our club have been the first to climb Mt. Everest & the first to land on the moon."
Peter McGough

Artist

"The art scene has changed. I don’t think it’s very exciting. I think it’s very corporate and a little boring."
Josh Ozersky

Burger Expert

"Hamburgers should not have sauces. Sauces, like a klansman’s hood, are a way of covering up something evil."
Jim & Hester

Interior Designers

"I should thank the Diamonds for giving me a career and Mike D for calling me 'The Furniture Pimp'. I'll never live that one down."
Ari Up

Punk Legend

"My sound is authentic and honest. You can hear Brooklyn coming through it."
Susan Blond

Warhol Star & Publicist

"Bad was an Andy Warhol movie I was in. I had an important role, which was throwing a baby out a window."
Brazilian Girls

Band

“We’re part pop, part electronica, part world, part dance and part dub."
Miles Rohan

The Corduroy Club

"The club was met with a lot of resistance. In fact, our first website was sabotaged."
Ted Rall

Editorial Cartoonist

"Very simply, since 9/11, most of my colleagues in the media have become pussies."
Noémie Lafrance

Site-Specific Choreographer

"Some of the places I've created shows are abandoned and not what people usually see as beautiful. It's nice to reinvent it's meaning."