How did you spend your weekend? This poor guy had to chase down his girlfriend’s boss’s parrot around Hell’s Kitchen for two days after it escaped out a window. |NYT|
Parting Shot: Socialized Superman
If Betsy McCaughey interpreted comic books as imaginatively as she does the health care bill, the partisan hack would insist that General Zod and Lex Luthor chair Superman’s “death panel.”
Photo by John Sarelli
With waves already swelling, surfers up and down the East Coast are excited about the weekend arrival of Hurricane Bill (track it here). New York City’s Parks Department on the other hand is panicking and closed down many of the city’s beaches today due to optimal surfing conditions: “high waves, heavy surf and rip currents.” With the ordinary folk’s propensity to sink like stones even when the conditions are calm, maybe this was a good call.
Photo by LtoBrooklyn
Zbyszek Olszyna’s Wonderfully Strange Photos
Avant-garde. Freakish. Bizarrely alluring. Sexy weird. Frightening? How would you describe these images from photographer Zbyszek Olszyna? See more of his delightful contusions here.
Photos by Zbyszek Olszyna
Notorious for quickly selling out his artwork, Todd James—REAS to you graffiti heads—has 4 prints available on his website. From an edition of 50, there’s only 5 of each print available. ($250) |12oz/ToddJames|
The city’s school system is plagued with problems, including how they go about exterminating vermin, charges PETA. The animal rights group says the NYC Department of Education employs the extremely cruel, but effective glue trap to kill rodents and isn’t happy about it. |PETA|
China Ad Watch: Food Fight!
Mustard arrows! Ninja death star bloodburger! Spaghetti tornado! Crab sauce…something or other?!? The ad attack on the increasingly-Westernized people of The People’s Republic continues with these wicked violent messy ads for P&G’s Ariel laundry detergent. Headline translation: Be prepared with Ariel. Prepared for a grub-bath! There will be stains! Click the ads and examine over-art direction at its best/worst. Hopefully, Chinese Ariel is safer than Chinese pet food, toothpaste, tires, toys, jewelry, hammocks, candles, etc. (here’s a partial list). Campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi Guangzhou. Previously in China Ad Watch: Fart Bubble Pants. |Images: ad goodness|
Officials say the death toll in Central Park from Tuesday’s storm has skyrocketed after “an arboreal trauma team fanned out through the hardest-hit sections” and discovered almost 500 destroyed trees. |NYT|
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