Arrested last year for painting a whole car on British Transport, a German graffiti writer was scolded by the judge and only charged $2000. While it’s true that “this sentence sends out the clear message that vandalism and criminality on the rail network in Scotland will not be tolerated,” it seems remarkably light compared to New York where similar crimes regularly put people in prison. |Press and Journal|
After a stellar showing of Yeezy rant technology on Friday, Kanye Webst Week wrapped up with a strong finish this weekend. Free Art & Technology showed us to a new online tool for putting “Where Are You Yeezy?” speech bubbles not just on attractive ladies as Kanye does, but any photo, even terrorists. After that, we heard Minimal Bling, a wholly unlistenable album of Kanye tracks attacked by iRedux, “an automated system that, by destroying your audio files, creates original ambient music.” Finally, the week of Kanye 2.0 closed with the ultra slow and depressing E-Kan-Omic Crisis.
Tomorrow, Sotheby’s is holding a ‘Photographs’ sale in London and it might be a good time for art collectors to take advantage of the thoroughly depressed art market. Nude works by Helmet Newton are among the auction’s highlights, as well as images from David LaChapelle, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Erwin Olaf among others. After the jump is a decidedly not safe for work gallery of some choice photos that are estimated to fetch between $5000 and $30,000, but will likely sell for less.
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If you dabble in creating video content and don’t want to be censored or worry about answering those pesky cease and desist letters, you may want to watch this. It explains “how online video creators can make remixes, mashups, and other common online video genres with the knowledge that they are staying within copyright law.” |Boingboing|
Ensuring their new “performance” cycling sneaker won’t be taken too seriously, adidas curiously collaborated with two brands with only the faintest interest in riding bikes. Streetwear website Hypebeast and Berlin sneaker shop Solebox helped the footwear giant design their own Zeitfreis, matched with a couple custom painted Bianchi track bikes as “The Complete Ride.” Asked about their biking habits and local fixed gear scene, Jason Chow from Hypebeast and Hikmet from Solebox laid it all out to Crooked Tongues: Read more »
In this clip (1:11), rapper Fat Joe talks about how he walked through the hood in Angola for two weeks “with jewelery all dripping” and no one even tried to rob him, unlike rival 50 Cent who got his chain snatched in front of thousands during a concert. |Nah Right|
Earlier this morning, American Apparel settled a $5 million lawsuit with Woody Allen for a series of billboards that depicted the pint-sized filmmaker without his permission. This comes after months spent preparing a holey defense that the Allen’s scandalous marriage had sullied his image too much to be worth the damages he sued for. More recently, Dov Charney chimed in to remind people this was really a first amendment issue. Read more »
Swiss-born, Brooklyn-based graphic artist GROTESK, created these two meta covers for the June issue of Juxtapoz art magazine. The one to the left is the “fresh subscriber” version and on the right is the more obvious “newsstand” edition. Click here for more details on the issue which has an impressive roster of artists, including graffiti bombing legend MQ.
A Queens Little League is fighting to recover $95,000, stolen from them by ex-Assemblymember Brian McLaughlin in a 10-year $2.2 million fraud scheme. In 2006, the crooked politician admitted to using the stolen money to “fund a lavish lifestyle that included three mistresses and patronage jobs for pals.” |NYP|
Hamster nesting artist Dash Snow is featured in the latest issue of Muse magazine. Photographer Mario Sorrenti shot the the artist in his cluttered studio on the Bowery where he not only produces collages and jizz-stained Post covers, but raises his toddler daughter, Secret Snow. Click the images below for a selection of photos from Snow’s un-childproofed crib and see more online or at the newsstand. Read more »
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