Photographer David “Shadi” Perez shot the lookbook for Married to the Mob’s new summer collection “meant to epitomize that summer every girl has where she is bordering the transition between being a girl and womanhood.” Or as founder Leah McSweeney puts it, “the summer that totally turned me into a bad girl. First kiss, first joint, first 40 ounce.” |MOB Living|
Designer Jonathan Baldwin created “Fear and Loathing: The Board Game” for gamers wanting to act out Hunter S. Thompson’s famous Las Vegas trip without the hallucinogenic trips, hotel wrecking, car crashes and general drug-induced haze. |Boing Boing|
In contrast to the charity art auctions featuring real Banksy prints, here’s one with an admittedly poor interpretation raising far less money for the British Red Cross: “We present to you quite probably the most unsightly Banksy derived artwork ever seen. You’re being asked to buy it.” |Art Bleat|
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a “man accused of two misdemeanors for allegedly arranging to buy 2 grams of cocaine over the phone cannot be charged with “facilitating” the dealer’s felonies.” Basically, some poor bastard with a “scary” name was upgraded to six felony counts for calling his dealer, who was being wiretapped by the FBI, on a cell phone for a Smurf-amount of blow. The government argued that he was “facilitating” the acts of the dealer by calling him and should therefore face more charges. Shockingly, a dumb ass jury concurred, deciding in favor of ruining Salman Khade Abuelhawa’s life. Thankfully, the court didn’t agree with either the government or the people. Read more »
So here’s the visuals for Kanye West’s auto-tuned atrocity, “Paranoid” from his last album, that features Mr. Hudson on the track, but more importantly stars Rihanna in the video, who the rapper-singer may or may not be fucking. |Nah Right|
This weekend ‘Manhattanhenge‘ will take place, with the sun setting in perfect alignment with the Manhattan street grid. The east ends of the main cross streets are some of the best places to watch the sun set along the grid, partially on Saturday and fully on Sunday at 8:17 PM. |AMNH|
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For all the photo-filled books exploring graffiti and the secret lives of writers, few, if any, let the artists show and tell their own experience. Like Lipstick Traces, a new book Aurélien Arbet & Jérémie Egry , does just that: 13 graffiti writers from around the world were given a Polaroid camera and 100 shots to picture their life, city, and adventures in getting up. Read more »
Have you ever heard of Marc Tobias? If not, read up, this guy is the kind of pain in the ass you’ll come to love. He’s a professional lock picker, author, and rabble rousing consultant that causes a lot of headaches for various entities dealing in security and is specifically a thorn in the side of Medeco. They’re the American lock maker that provides hardware for everyone from Stuy Town to the White House and other sensitive facilities like embassies and even the Pentagon. The company’s more secure locks are supposed to be able to withstand a minimum of ten minutes worth of tinkering to achieve a “high security” designation which they often plug as a selling point. Read more »
More than two days after the predawn bombing of an Upper East Side Starbucks, investigators are no closer to figuring out who was responsible for the homemade explosive that damaged a wooden bench, shattered windows but fortunately did not injure anyone. Multiple witnesses claim they saw “two white youngsters, about 14 and 16 years old, running away from the scene,” which is the the best lead police have for now. Read more »
This weekend in Chelsea, Joshua Liner Gallery opens two solo shows of fantastical and dreamlike paintings Mike Davis and Heidi Taillefer. While Taillefer imagines serpent headed women, flying cats and animals hacked with mechanical parts, Davis renders the surreal collision of classical scenes with anthropomorphic animals and objects. The two exhibitions, “An Uncanny Lineup of Serendipitous Connections” and “Stories From the Other Side of the Bridge,” open on Saturday from 6 to 9 PM through June 27th at 548 West 28th Street.
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