First released: 23 Jun 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com NYC has always been a scene superconductor, replete with an infinite supply of ambitious young bodies and a world class media machine to document it all. But over the past few years, a new strain of #downtown has emerged that incessantly flickers between the physical and online realms. On this episode, NM is joined by three denizens of this New York sphere — novelist and co-founder of Forever Magazine, Madeline Cash; artist chloé waifmaterial; and full stack engineer slash man-about-town David Yoakum — to recap a cluster of events that transpired during Praxis Week, including the premier of Angelicism’s Film01, a reading at the new VC-backed Lower East Side event space Sovereign House, and the sudden onset of a climate event that amplified it all. For more: @davidy____ waifmaterial.com & @waifmaterial madelinecash.com & @madelinecash Related writing from NM sphere: - Madeline Cash reviews Angelicism’s Film01 for Spike Art Magazine - Paige K. Bradley reviews Angelicism’s Film01 for Artforum