Why did the Japanese choose a teddy bear appearance for this robot nurse bear that was designed to carry patients around? It has to do with the uncanny valley hypothesis: “when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers.” Also, Japan just likes cute shit. |PinkTentacle|
Michael Vick Mural Buffed
In honor of the Philadelphia Eagles’ latest recruit, local graffiti artists painted this mural showing Michael Vick dominating his new rivals, the Dallas Cowboys. Not surprisingly, the new painting of the convicted dog killer strangling a puppy clad in Tony Romo’s Cowboys jersey has already been painted over. |The 700 Level|
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Authorities Continue To Rid Market of Bad Weed
Approximately 25,000 pounds of Mexican dirt weed with an estimated wholesale value of $10 million was seized after the driver of a big rig allegedly made “an illegal lane change,” according to a patrol deputy and was pulled over. Cops searched the 18-wheeler and found the stash stacked from front to back. The man was turned over to the DEA and is pretty much screwed: he will not only face prison time, but points on his license also. |KTLA|
Photos by Riverside Co. Sheriff’s Dept.
Yoshitomo Nara, the drunken Japanese pop artist arrested for drawing a smiley face, valued at $10k, on a L station wall, has had all charges wiped away. As part of the plea deal made earlier this year, the 49-year-old artist had to avoid being busted by the NYPD for six months, an easy task since he lives overseas. |NYP|
An obviously high and technologically brilliant team of creative film people produced this delightfully bizarre video that may or may not having any meaning. It was directed by Chris Cairns and stars British turntablist collective the Scratch Perverts, Watch the “Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.” in action below.
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Yale University Press is censoring itself, backing off plans to include the controversial Muhammad cartoons from a 2005 Danish newspaper in a new academic book discussing them. The University’s security advisers believe that reprinting the widely distributed images in “The Cartoons That Shook the World” would prompt more violence and rioting. |CBC|
What could be more bizarre than a group of moronic teenagers in Virginia using sod at an elementary school to spell out the letters “KKK” and make a big ol’ swastika? One of them was black. Outlandish or par for the course? If both the right and the left can toss around the Nazi symbol slipshod at town hall meetings on health care why shouldn’t African-Americans? |NBCWashington|
Judith Supine is profiled in the latest Reincarnation issue of Tokion magazine—a fitting theme since we thought it died. In addition to some of the methodology and meaning behind the street artist’s subterranean and sky high work, the interview reveals that if not for getting caught masturbating at his museum job in Virginia, and subsequently fired, he may never have wound up in New York. In his own words, the self-gratifying moment that precipitated Judith Supine’s path towards street art stardom: Read more »
Senator Ted Kennedy was not only an accomplished politician, but a celebrated media whore as well. Mediaite has a nice round up of some of his most memorable magazine covers. |Mediaite|
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