![]() ![]() ![]() Participants become citizens and shape what happens to rival heist crews in a dystopian environment-part text-based GTA, part collaborative design space, part short film, all run through a community Discord. The online experience combines meta-narratives with 3D collectibles that unlock a custom character builder. Santangelo’s bank account had three digits and a decimal point after the first when AdWorld went live last month. He needed a new title, a new format, and a supporting cast. When COVID pulled an unprecedented shutdown, Williams had a chance to make sense of his accrual and realized the Freelancer concept had grown up. Sketches, demos, and verses piled up as months turned into years. “Freelancer” didn’t do such carnage justice. But slipping from the belly of the beast to its intestines put Santangelo face-to-face with the rot. He couldn’t pay for dinners with a few million streams and The State of Things dared anyone with open eyes to resist the siren calls of fatalism. (Santangelo’s visual portfolio runs deep, as is the nature of talented sell swords without health insurance: special assignments for Noname, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Tyler Mitchell soul-crushing corporate sacrifices haunting paintings of skinless characters who look like they’d devour George Condo’s Dark Fantasy ensemble without blinking).įreelancer never saw the light in its initial stage. It’s hard to listen to “ Like Flies,” an early Santangelo release, and keep your eyes dry. The talent underlying those ambitions was clear as day to a modest but impassioned group of friends, supporters, and other artists, be it Brockhampton members, Raveena, or Roy Blair. At that time, he was already deep in the crafting of an album called Freelancer, a witty, disgruntled, horny takedown of the mercenary design work he relied on to pay rent and keep his music ambitions alive. Teens cropping homeless people out of selfies, Pepsi solving* police brutality, notes from an incarcerated father, the cans of beans he relied on to keep his stomach at bay. It might kill you ㋛įour years ago in New York, Florida-born, Georgia-raised multidisciplinary artist Santangelo Williams stared at his ceiling, thinking about everyday interactions as ripples of things falling apart. ![]()
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