Robot Will Flaunt Superiority to Humans
This evening the Storefront for Art and Architecture opens an exhibition of industrial robots capable of building structures more complex and intricate than a human hand ever could. Next week in Chinatown, the robot R-O-B, created by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler, will start laying bricks next week for “Pike Loop,” an parabolic structure composed of more than seven thousand carefully stacked bricks. The construction, taking place along the Pike Street pedestrian median between Division Street and East Broadway, is estimated for completion by October 27th. Watch a video of the machine at work after the jump. Read more »
Unlike Krink’s limited edition fire extinguisher full of paint, this Fumakaka’s high-pressure means of “creative expression” won’t cost much of anything. Photographer Martha Cooper returns from Bogota where the Peruvian graffiti crew was offering a “master class” and open source illustrated plans for building the Sembrador de Terror aka the Terror Planter. Constructed with common materials, the pressurized tagging tube is easily refillable for “super tags in half the time.” |12oz|
Photos by Martha Cooper
I mean really…of all the philandering scumbag politicians out there today, isn’t John Edwards just the worst? Ok, sure, conservatives like David Vitter who preach family values only to get caught going number two in Huggies so a cheap whore can wipe his pasty bottom clean are about as repugnant as they come, but Edwards is just the worst. Do you hear me? HE’S THE WORST!!! Read more »
Graffiti ‘King’ Avoids Prison By Working With Anti-Graffiti Task Force
An infamous Australian graffiti writer has dodged prison time for 37 counts of vandalism by going to work for the police. Noted as “one of the most significant … graffiti artist[s] that’s been brought before the courts in many years,” 23-year-old Russell Orrie Fenn aka SOFLES plead guilty and received a suspended six year prison sentence. In exchange for his freedom, the Brisbane panter, who has apparently become “a successful legitimate artist,” must pay $14k in fines and continue community service such as working with the city’s graffiti task force to help them think like young vandals and “encourage them to take up legal forms of expression.” |The Courier-Mail|
HAHA…I know what you were thinking as soon as you learned Sully was making a comeback with U.S. Airways, “I’m going to fly with that MoFo because he’s got titanium balls!” Yeah, well, good luck Sparky, because seats to fly with Jesus’ personal pilot are sold out! |TMZ|
Last night a freshman Democratic congressman from Florida, Rep. Alan Grayson, stepped up to the microphone on the floor of the House of Representatives and offered up his interpretation of the Republican’s alternative to President Obama’s heath care proposals. He broke the plan down into three points: 1) Don’t get sick, 2) And if you do get sick…, 3) Die quickly. Read more »
Here’s a shocker: Peter Tosh’s son, Andrew, was found guilty of weed possession in Jamaica. He won’t be facing any jail time, but will have to do about 200 hours of community service. While most convictions of this type go mostly unnoticed, this one has become an international item of interest and it could have to do with that song his pops recorded back in the early 1960′s specifically dealing with this topic. Maybe you’ve heard of it? |AP|
Photo via Jahworks
Artist Gores Bernie Madoff With A Bull
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- “What You see Might Not Be Real†by Chen Wenling
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- “What You see Might Not Be Real†by Chen Wenling
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- “What You see Might Not Be Real†by Chen Wenling
In a not so subtle critique of white collar criminality, Chinese artist Chen Wenling constructed a sculpture of Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff being violently gored by a gas-powered bull, an animal he apparently has a fetish for. “What You See Might Not Be Real,” is on display through October 11th in Wenling’s solo show “Emergency Escape” at Beijing’s Joy Art Gallery. |ML Art Source|
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