Parting Shot: OBEY Iraq
A soldier in Iraq who has been bombing “various pieces of equipment near his home base” with Shepard Fairey’s OBEY stencil has been tracked downed and identified. |OBEY|
Months after Air Force One’s low-flying photoshoot struck fear in the hearts of New Yorkers, forced White House Military Office director Louis Caldera to resign, and inspired a bunch of Photoshopped fakes, new photos of the flight were released, forcibly. The Pentagon, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, made 146 shots from the $357,000 photo op public along with related documents. Like the last official Air Force one photo over the Statue of Liberty, they’re all yellowed, so enjoy our color corrected selection below. Read more »
Brands Represented At ‘Beer Summit’
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- Bud Light: Choice of President Barack Obama
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- Blue Moon: Choice of Sergeant James Crowley
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- Sam Adams Light: Choice of Professor Henry Louis Gates
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- Buckler (non-alcoholic): Choice of Vice President Joe Biden
Last night’s Beer Summit at the White House was monumental. Not for the country or race relations, but for brewers! Branding a beverage more likely to start fights as the substance of reconciliation and cultural harmony was a genius move on behalf of all parties involved. Click through the gallery of beer above to see who drank what.
Ingenuitive weed cartels from Mexico are sick of the drama involved with smuggling weed across the border and are moving operations closer to their destined markets in the United States. Unfortunately, their increasingly setting up shop in America’s national forests creating an environmental mess and providing even more reasons to legalize the herb already. |NYT|
The preeminent authorities on graffiti, the Daily News, slapped together photographs of murals and legal walls for a contrived photo essay that attempts to offer some background on the aerosol art form. But there’s one major problem. There’s no actual graffiti, you know, the illegal kind that spawned the entire movement and stills serves as its lifeblood. But at least they explain what “bombing” is. Word! Click here to see what the tabloid actually billed as “NYC’s Coolest Graffiti.”
Photo of PHEOS piece by Graffiti.org
This week, art blogger CultureGrrl is trying a new monetization method: posting link dumps without the links. For $1.50 each day, you can buy a list of links to the stories she doesn’t “have the time or the strong desire to comment about.” Also, for $5 or more, she’ll email you links to new blog posts like a rudimentary RSS feed. |CultureGrrl|
Artists Design DIY Guillotine
“Are you increasingly annoyed by all those criminals, immigrants and petty people who should just be got rid of?” Earlier this month, social carpentry shop Designer Contestatori debuted their new cutting edge work, a “low-cost product designed specifically for all those citizens who are so interested in Do-It-Yourself Justice.” Taking aim at recently enacted illegal immigration laws which make permit more vigilantism, the Sokkomb guillotine was unveiled outside an Italian IKEA, where it shares similarities to the Swedish furniture inside: somewhat easily assembled and relatively cheap at $140. After the jump, a video of the spruce decapitator, allegedly “tested for over 100 performances a day.” Read more »
In light of galleries going under and struggling to hang on, the Art Newspaper gathered some advice for staying in the game. London dealer Karsten Schubert candidly advises galleries to “cut costs as quickly and as radically as you can… let very qualified staff go very quickly and very brutally.” |TAN|
Hauling around tripods is a pain in the ass and in NYC, could even attract unwanted attention from the police who aren’t so versed in laws pertaining to photography in public places. But worry no more, Monsterpod is here. The “viscoelastic polymer-based material that’s said to be like a rubberized honey” can be affixed to a variety of surfaces for “one to ten minutes” (that’s quite an ambiguous time frame), including Central Park’s bumpy perimeter wall, while supporting a 20-ounce camera. |DVICE|
Mayor Bloomberg hasn’t even won his third term but he’s still leaving the door open for more. Asked whether he would rule out a fourth run, Bloomberg said the law doesn’t allow it. A reporter pointed out that the law didn’t always allow three terms, to which he responded: “But it does now. It permits only three terms, so I don’t know. Talk to your City Council. Let me point out that I had no intention of running for a (third) term up until near the end, as you know. The City Council changed the law. It’s up to the voters whether they want four more years.” |NYDN|
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