The terse mass email from publisher Samantha Moeller to her staff at the now-defunct Missbehave might help explain some of the disgruntled reactions from the newly unemployed. |Gawker|
Celebrating the city’s street grid, artist Emily Fischer of Haptic Lab stiches Soft Maps, quilts adorned with the street lines of Kings County neighborhoods. Though she will also embroider other neighborhoods and cities, this makes Brooklyn the borough of blankets, in addition to churches, bars, lights and trees. |Cool Hunting|
When the Bristol City Council illegally buffed a legal mural commissioned by The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft, they painted back. The arts-centric urban renewal group stenciled a call to action on top of the black void the city’s Clean and Green Team left over the “Hope” mural by artists Cheo and 3Dom, encouraging residents to speak up against city-sponsored censorship of legal public art. It’s a bold response that could be employed by any community facing destruction of their art. |PRSC|
Images via Bristol Graffiti
A larger than life, silver bodied effigy of the extraterrestrial star from “Alien,” dominates a new exhibition of work by artist David Herbert. Opening tonight at Postermasters Gallery in Chelsea, the show titled “Nostalgia for Infinity” showcases the artist’s melding of slick pop culture and modern history into sculptures, video installations and paintings built from unlikely materials: chicken wire, spray foam, rusty steel, sculpey and cement. Read more »
Between their ridiculously slow pace through traffic congested streets and potentially blinding ads, MTA buses rarely offer much to smile about. Then there’s this Ludicris inspired MTA jacket. |12oz|
Two months after printing a final issue and moving completely online, Missbehave is heading the way of its brother publication Mass Appeal and going entirely out of business. Publisher Samantha Moeller publicly announced the news on her personal Hipster Mom blog, saying she was disbanding the quarterly cool girl magazine to focus on mothering her son and second baby on the way. Read more »
Arts in Bushwick is opening an exhibition of work donated by artists in next month’s Bushwick Open Studios Festival at Lumenhouse. Proceeds from the artwork, available for $200 or less in cash, will benefit the Brooklyn arts association. |AIB|
More Photoshop Animal Abuse
Ha, the Olympus e620 FREEZES the action (click images to enlarge). My first reaction to these very literal product benefit visualizations via JWT Sydney was, ‘OK, nice layouts, ad school creativity.’ But then, second, third and fourth, and fifth thoughts popped into my head. Creative license or not, “built-in visual stabilization” sure as shit ain’t gonna come close to freezing an eagle snatching lunch (I’ve seen it happen live, and it is a fucking blur.). Also, Dog racing? Eh, the agency should have maybe not picked an activity that’s universally regarded as greyhound torture. And…haven’t I seen this exact camera ad concept before? Yes. Yes I have. Lastly? Stop Ad Animal Abuse! |Images: coloribus|
As quickly as their first spinning prayer wheel was stolen off the street, the second from Brooklyn-based art collective FAILE has disappeared too. Similarly bolted to the sidewalk and worth many thousands of dollars, the carved sculpture was taken from Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg within a week. Perhaps the third installation will be the charm.
Photos by elswatchoboracho and Luna Park
Parting Shot: Talking Trash
Garbage covered cities and landscapes, like this beach in Dakkar, are the focus of this collection of depressingly trashy photos. |Deputy Dog|
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