AIG ditched their tainted name, losing one letter to become AIU, but such a simple change wasn’t an option for Blackwater Worldwide. The thoroughly disgraced military defense contractor has rebranded itself entirely as the not yet blackened Xe, in an attempt to “distance itself from their image as reckless cowboys that’s etched into the world’s mind from the…shooting.” |Brand New|
Each week, ANIMAL will rank the world’s most despicable, deplorable, and undesirable human beings walking the earth, making the news. Behold: Evil Empirical. Read more »
Knitta Please hit Brooklyn Heights last night, wrapping 69 parking meters with their colorful knitted street art. Gothamist commenters are in their usual frenzy, calling each other racists and arguing about “co-opting inner city culture” into “yuppie-craft retardation.” |Gothamist|
Stripped down to her bra and donning a big black wig, Ashley Olsen is barely recognizable in a new fashion spread for VMan magazine. In addition to the gothy shoot by photographer Sebastian Faena, the former child star turned pseudo fashion designer chats with Marc Jacobs about the upcoming launch of The Row, her new clothing line with twin sis Mary Kate, and the evilness of blogs: Read more »
Killing animals for the sake of stuffing them and then hanging their heads on the wall as decorations is a little too evil, but here’s a totally peaceful way to still capture that taxidermy ‘trophy’ vibe: Cardboard Safari. They also offer full bodied beasts as well. |Inhabitat|
Saturated and sometimes sickly colors compose the photographs of Miles Aldridge, a London-based fashion photographer. At the end of the month, Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea will open “Pictures for Photographs,” an exhibition of 20 oversize photos by the artist and a celebration of the publication of his book by the same name. Click through the images above for some of the photographer’s slick, glossy and surreal work before the show opens May 28 through June 27 at 521 West 23rd Street.
Traffic on the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx was more snarled than usual this morning. When one mother dog was hit and injured by a car, her son ran out to protect her, barking off cops and traffic before she was rescued. |ABC|
Street artist Judith Supine sunk himself in the muck to sink this latest piece, a baby-faced flasher, in Central Park’s pond, just off Gapstow Bridge. |Wooster Collective|
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Keith Haring, Faile, D*Face, and Shepard Fairey are among the artists collaged into these new works by Miss Bugs. The 42 piece series features the image-makers signature combination of collaged and layered stencils and silk screens, all on a background of aluminum panels painted with Fairey’s presidential Hope portrait. Each piece in the work titled “Dirty Art Holding Hands with Politics” can be had for $575. Check out how the pieces fit together after the jump. Read more »
A new study suggests that smoking weed doesn’t necessarily increase the risk of head and neck cancer as previously suggested, but that doesn’t mean puffing like Bob Marley is healthy either, since the “prevalence of frequent marijuana smoking was low in most of the contributing studies, we could not rule out a moderately increased risk, particularly among subgroups without exposure to tobacco and alcohol.” |MPP|
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