Rapper Foxy Brown told the Post that contrary to their hard hitting front page story, her time at Rikers Island wasn’t a breeze at all and denies receiving any special treatment. She also said that her Gucci sneakers were necessary for her own security: “There were certain gang colors my sneakers couldn’t be.” |NYP|
Tony Hawk is still upset about the so-called haters criticizing his historic ride through the White House on Friday. The pro-skater turned video game character chastised media outlets on his Twitter: “Amazing that in today’s struggles, 4 urethane wheels rolling on a tile floor can cause political alarm. News shows want quotes. Distraction?”
Photographer Mikael Vojinovic broke out his camera, some paint, and the very lovely Emelia for this art-fashion shoot hybrid in his continuing series for ANIMAL. Click below for the colorfully explosive, slightly NSFW gallery. Read more »
The New York Times went deep cover and delved into the sunny underworld of lawless bee keeping. Currently, it’s illegal to keep hives in the city, but that’s not stopping people from engaging in the outlaw activity, particularly in Brooklyn. |NYT|
Like an oversharing parent the Brooklyn Museum is tweeting minute-by-minute updates as their beloved mummies getting CAT scanned this morning. They’ve just discovered that the fourth mummy, Prince Pasebakhaienipet, has his heart still in place and a piece of reed stuck in his throat! Besides identifying organs and mummy genitalia, these new three dimensional pictures could be useful if the the museum wants to include some wacky police sketches when the mummies go back on display later this summer.
Red Bucket Films reworks Charles and Ray Eames’ 1977 film “Powers of 10,” featuring graffiti writer KATSU’s exponentially bigger tags covering everything from a grain of rice to a Chelsea rooftop. |Wooster Collective|
Ed’s dead. The world’s most famous sidekick of all time passed away at the age of 86. |BaltimoreSun|
It’s National Recycling Week in merry old England. So yesterday, planet-, teeth- and pancreas-destroyer Coca-Cola unveiled this 50 meter, 200,000 can eyesore called “Precious Metal” above the beautiful white cliffs of Sussex. Hey, let’s grab a six-acre Papa John’s pizza and a 100,000 foot tall stripper and have a big stupid party! Seriously, that is one ugly-ass piece of work. Look at the amateurish type! In the accompanying promo video Coke “Citizenship Manager”(?) Liz Lowe claims the recycling of these 200,000 cans will save enough energy to power a “tellie” for over 70 years.
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Banksy fans continue making the pilgrimage to his big Bristol Museum exhibition, but not everyone is enamored with the semi-anonymous street artist. Last night, shots were fired at one of his local illegal paintings, “Window Lovers,” a naked man hanging out while a cuckolded husband and wife peer out the window. The blue paintball attack comes a little more than two months after a local group called Appropriate Media splashed Banksy’s “Mild Mild West” mural with washable red paint as some incomprehensible protest. While nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the latest attack, city officials plan to similarly restore the Banksy painting, a “tourist attraction” that draws “people from around the world.”
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So now that the fascist FDA will have final word on cigarette marketing as the president gave the agency unprecedented power to regulate tobacco, “multi-disciplinary design firm” Pentagram offered some rebranding advice. Although the mock Marlboro designs were created with the intent of turning the “whole cigarette pack into a three dimensional warning label,” the tarot cardish motif is way edgier than what’s currently out there and could make smoking look cooler than ever.
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