Billed as the “ultimate compilation of Madonna songs,” the Material Girl issued a press release this week announcing her latest greatest hits album. And befitting a volume full of warmed-up decades old tracks, Mr. Brainwash pumped out the uninspired and derivative album cover, his latest reworking of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portrait.
After the Associated Press reported on Bloomberg’s fleet of illegally-polluting SUVs, he reportedly “told his drivers to cut out the idling.” Spokesman Stu Loesereven reiterated the politician’s commitment to the environment and literacy, mentioning how the mayor had “No Engine Idling” signs installed months ago in all of the vehicles as a reminder. |AP|
Nike didn’t want you to see Lebron James getting dunked on by college basketball star Jordan Crawford, allegedly confiscating and censoring the footage. Little good that did them. TMZ posted some blurry clip, but Ebaum has clear video of the rather anticlimactic incident. |Deadspin|
New York City’s financially busted museums and art programs are trying to get more money: fundraising online, selling small exhibit sponsorships, as well as cutting staff and scuttling programming. And artist Peter Coffin is both helping and hurting their cause. His forthcoming book, “How to Sneak into a Museum Without Paying” is a collection of hand drawn maps and diagrams from contributors instructing art lovers how to dodge admission fees, but also showing museums how to stop non-paying patrons. The author, with the help of Art Fag City, is soliciting new submissions for the creative undertaking.
Images via Art Fag City
In another victory for legalization, the good people of Oakland voted overwhelmingly (80%) to increase taxes on revenue from medical pot dispensaries. Measure F calls for a cut of $18 for every $1,000 worth of herb sold. Unlike virtually any other industry operating in the cash strapped state of California, many of the medical pot providers are begging to be taxed if it means less police meddling. Dispensary owner Richard Lee is happy to contribute to the city’s coffers instead of the legal justice system’s: “This tax is a lot cheaper than lawyers.” |NYT|
Whereas artist Steve Ellis paints crumpled magazines, Nigel Tomm shoots them. Folding and wrinkling glossy photos of models and porn stars, the self-proclaimed “most popular photographer” appropriates the poised shots into grotesquely beautiful images. Click above for a sampling and see the full collection of crinkled covergirls here.
Just because Mayor Mike enacted a stricter an anti-idling law for vehicles in the city, doesn’t mean he has to follow it. According to the Associated Press, many of the SUVs in his entourage routinely flout the law and are left to run way over the 3 minute maximum, but since they’re so called “emergency vehicles,” it’s only considered mildly hypocritical. |AP|
This is a new UK ad for the SEAT Altea XL—an ergonomic Spanish family car. But SEAT UK communications manager Rob Taylor desperately wants to change the vehicle’s image into a sexy fuck-mobile for English parents. Really Rob?
We really wanted the campaign to carry some of the ‘SEATTITUDE’ that we believe runs right through our sporty Spanish brand. Opting for a slightly risqué style does just that, and shows SEAT drivers really have a lust for life!
SEAT-TI-TUDE. As explained at the Inspiration Room, those bare seats—and every other detail in the ad—were painfully groupthinked, including the barely discernable bra, which the 20-member production team felt needed to be “neither too sexy, nor too ‘comfortable.’” This is what happens when marketing controls creative: copy (click ad) that reads like an internal memo, and an ad that looks like a sell sheet. It’s bad car ad week on ANIMAL. |Image : The Inspiration Room|
A sweeping federal investigation into corruption, money laundering, and “international trafficking in body parts” has led to the arrest of two New Jersey mayors, Hoboken’s Peter Cammarano and Secaucus’ Dennis Elwell. The nearly 30 people arrested this morning include other Garden State officials and rabbis from Syrian Jew enclaves in Brooklyn and along the Jersey shore. |NYT|
A photograph during yesterday’s solar eclipse, just before the moon completely covered the sun.
Photo by Heaven’s Gate (John)
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