The MTA announced the firing of Lockheed Martin for botching the anti-terror surveillance system they were contracted to install for $250 million. Only 1,400 of 1,700 surveillance cameras are in position and few even work. However, in April, Lockheed sued the MTA for not allowing them to work in critical areas and not providing the network access needed to make the system work. |NYP|
MSK ups the ante, offering 12 bottles of ink, 20 empty mops, and 12 more cans of spraypaint on top of the 100 they’re already offering whoever rats out the vandal that’s dissing their work. |Known Gallery|
News organizations are hot on the trail of Maria, the seductive woman from Argentina who had an affair with Governor Mark Sanford and has lovable tan lines according to newly published salacious emails. Now everyone wants to know what this South American vixen looks like and so the media is staking out her apartment building (pictured above) in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. |GreenvilleOnline|
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A street art aficionado and emerging blog mogul shot this colorful shark on the streets of New York City.
Photo by Jake Dobkin
Congress budgets billions of dollars for classified use by intelligence agencies. Some of the unaccountable failures this money was wasted on include untested DEA surveillance planes that had to be parted out and a $4.7 million patrol boat that the Coast Guard had no use for. They sold it for $1. |Star Telegram|
You wouldn’t believe it after hearing about his steamy extramarital Argentinean affair, but disappearing Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina has been described as an “incredibly boring” guy. Early last year, the Republican—who once said that President Clinton should resign over the Monica Lewinsky incident—sat down for an interview with Stephen Colbert who asked him about his alleged unexciting lifestyle. Read more »
French tourists were a bit scared after going on a “ride from hell” when the driver of an illegal van picked them up from JFK and zoomed around two boroughs trying to evade police in hot pursuit. Luckily, a supernatural deity intervened: “We screamed and prayed the whole time we were in the van. God heard us. It was a miracle that we survived.” Agreed, those trigger-happy cops could have shot them. |NYP|
As you may have heard by now, Mark Sanford, the Republican Governor of South Carolina, dipped out of public view and into a mistress in Argentina after going missing for the past few days. And now things take a turn for utterly surreal when graffiti in the South American country resembles him and in context!
Photo by Jaz-Dragon
Brooklynite Gallery is venturing into Manhattan this summer, opening a pop-up shop in the East Village. The new shop, Brooklynite NYC, will be showing and selling a bunch of prints and pieces of art from the Bed Stuy-based gallery’s coterie of artists and image makers. The grand opening, featuring the release of this Specter print, is tonight from 7 to 9 PM at 632 East 11th Street.
In duos, trios, and event quartets, artist Korin Faught paints gr portraits at intimate moments and interiors. Saturday she opens “Echo,” an exhibition of her oil paintings, at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California. The show opens from 7 to 10 PM and is on view through July 19.
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