Parting Shot: Say Cheese!
This compelling portrait of a California Condor was shot by National Geographic photographer Joe Sartore and is featured in his new book: RARE: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species. |PDN|
Photo: Joe Sartore
Despite their mostly negative coverage, Fox News is still doing an excellent job hyping artist Sofia Maldonado’s Times Square mural and I can only hope she remembers to send them a heartfelt thank you note. After their first report culled exclusively from the mural-hating public, they spoke to the artist herself, who is thrilled about the dialogue.
Well, that didn’t take long. After Mike Tyson announced he’ll begin filming for a new pigeon racing show to air on Animal Planet, PETA used the opportunity to slam him: “Tyson’s claim to care about pigeons is rather incredulous given that he chooses to tout using them in a ’sport’ that—like horseracing—exposes them to danger and death.”
Shawn Barber at the Joshua Linder Gallery
Drips and color explosions bring tattoo culture to a painterly high in Shawn Barber’s paintings at the Joshua Linder Gallery next month. With a lot of photo snaps and a little unabashed arty fetishism, Barber brings a new series “Tattooed Portraits: Chronicle.”
“Tattooed Portraits: Chronicle,” Shawn Barber, Apr 24 – May 22, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York
A complaint lodged by a Manhattan doctor helped spark the investigation into a taxi scam that cheated passengers out of at least $8.3 million. It was during a routine cab ride home that Dr. Mitchell Lee noticed his fare was $2 more than usual. He questioned the driver who dismissed it and said: “pay what you normally pay.” Instead, he paid the full amount, with his credit, and then sent the TLC a complaint online, prompting them to uncover the wrongdoing. |NYP|
The Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained documents detailing how various federal agencies are using popular social networking sites to gather information for their investigations. Read more »
While most famewhores haven’t been elbows-deep in an overweight bank robber, while confined to a six by six concrete box, they have all been held captive and oppressed by the tyranny that is New York City media. Read more »
The highly influential Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is asking shoppers to boycott Wal-Mart for firing Joe Casias, a 29-year-old cancer survivor and LEGAL medical weed patient from Michigan with an inoperable brain tumor. He worked at the mega chain for five years, but was fired after testing positive for THC during a drug test. In 2008, he was named Associate of the Year, but a spokesperson for Wal-Mart says the company can discriminate all it wants, even if the medicine is legal: Read more »
Porn and metaphorical monsters seem to be SXSW trends this year, but one film goes above and beyond in combining both. According to the peripheral chatter, all it needs is someone to pop up at the end and say, ‘The Aristocrats!’ Read more »
‘Dummies’ Go After Smart Crew
John Wiley & Sons, the publishers responsible for putting out those ‘For Dummies‘ series of books, sent a legal warning to the graffiti-based Smart Crew, claiming they’re infringing on the company’s trademark with this obvious parody painted on the side of a box truck in NYC. Read the full, sternly-worded letter below threatening legal action if the truck isn’t buffed. Read more »
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