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DMA#48: Drawing Sneaky Art in Times Square: AI Slop & the Radical Act of Paying Attention
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- May 5, 2026
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.newyorkcartoons.com As always, if you want to watch the full replay, please upgrade to Paid. I really appreciate your support. If you want to test the absolute limits of your nervous system, try sitting in the middle of Times Square with a sketchbook, a pen, and an open microphone... It is a sensory assault. It does not smell like inspiration; it smells like roasted nuts, diesel exhaust, and the sweat of ten thousand tourists realising they’ve lost their Marriott room key. The noise is a physical weight. Sirens, pedicabs aggressively looping Alecia Keys, and people dressed as off-brand Spider-Man aggressively demanding five dollars for a photo. “Drawing in New York is combat journalism. You’re trying to capture lightning in a bottle while the bottle is being kicked down Broadway by a guy screaming at his phone.” But this is exactly why I do this. When I started New York Cartoons , the core promise to you, the reader, was that I wasn’t just going to send you polished, sterile drawings from the safety of an air-conditioned studio. The promise was to show you what living, surviving, and creating in New York City actually looks like. The chaos, the invisible labour, and the absurd encounters that fuel the work. So, for this week’s episode of Draw Me Anything , I took the studio to the street! My guest was the brilliant Nishant Jain, better known to his massive audience as The Sneaky Artist . Nishant came down from Canada to sit with me in the blistering epicentre of Manhattan. For an hour, amidst the absolute bedlam of Times Square, we drew the chaos in real-time. Before the stream started, a tall man holding a brown paper bag whipped towards us before locking eyes with me… it was, of course, my neighbour an…