Normally, wolves would rather “persecute coyotes rather than breed with them,” but new DNA evidence suggests there’s a whole lot of interspecies banging going on in the Northeastern US, spawning a new animal classified as a “coywolf.” |Discovery|
Pranksters Stage Subway Photo Shoot
Improv Everywhere went underground for their latest mission, turning an ordinary subway car into a moving photo studio. The public pranking comedy group claimed the MTA had hired them to photograph commuters for a straphanger yearbook. Despite the absurdity of their purported plan to shoot the millions of New Yorkers who ride the subway daily, they reportedly had no trouble convincing people on the 6 line to let their guard down long enough to pose for a portrait. Watch ideo of the “Subway Yearbook Photo” stunt after the jump. Read more »
Some Colombians Are Not Fans of the Chinese, Apparently
Remember last year when an utterly bizarre newspaper ad, whose purpose was to wish the team good luck in their trip to compete in the Olympics in Beijing, China, featured Spain’s national basketball team posing for a team picture making slant-eyes? Well, one could make the argument that racial/ethnic insensitivity might be a common thread among the world’s Spanish speaking peoples after seeing this advertisement running in a Colombian newspaper. Read more »
As part of the Fame Festival, David Ellis and Blu spent a week collaboratively painting an entire building to create this stop motion film. The 8-minute animation sees the artists’ own characters and designs covering, crawling and sometimes demolishing parts of the building. Watch the “Combo” video after the jump. Read more »
Artists Offset Prints Cheap Image
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- “Faces” by Olaf Breuning
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- “Chatroom” by Nancy de Holl
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- “The Beat is Sweet” by Michele Omarah
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- “Untitled” by Michael Queenland
Chelsea’s Hudson Franklin gallery plays host to a three-day exhibition of offset lithographic posters, a medium “often considered outside of the high-art spectrum.” Organized by Matthew Spiegelman, “Offset” features new works by ten artists printed on the “same large multi-plate presses used to produce magazines, take-out menus, and calendars.” The show opens from 6 to 9 tomorrow night through Saturday at 508 West 26th Street, Suite 318. Each poster, measuring approximately 39” x 27”, is available for $100 from a limited edition of 200.
Marilyn Manson has been diagnosed with swine flu, also popularly known as the pig AIDS. Accordingly, he issued a statement via Facebook stating that no pigs were fucked in his contracting the dreaded virus, just in case you were wondering. So there. |NME|
Historical Phacial Photoshop Abuse
Ostensibly to demonstrate that CNA, a South African retail store chain, has got what you’re looking for, the Jupiter Drawing Room in Johannesburg created these famous mashed-up mug ads. It’s a truly bizarre strategy that really doesn’t sell the store very well, but makes for interesting viewing. So, click and view the gallery. The most frightening combo is the Adolf Dean (Dean’s estate won’t be thrilled to see this)—live fast, kill faster! Hey, if ad agencies can use der dead Führer to help stop AIDS and curb smoking, why not exploit him to move some product in these hard times? The second scariest is royal prince Buddy Holly—a plane crash of a mash-up. Then, there’s the cruel Bill Gates Kingification, and lastly, the relatively innocuous Lennon/Einstein. The campaign could of course go on forever—I’m envisioning an Ozzy/Gandhi crazy trainwreck. |Images: AdsOfTheWorld|
Did you catch Moammar Gadhafi’s long, rambling, downright bat-shit crazy speech to the UN General Assembly today? Oh boy, what a DOOZY! He should’ve just dropped his pants and taken a big terrorist dump right there on the podium and slung feces all over the walls, because that’s essentially what his speech amounted to. Oh, he also complained about jetlag! But perhaps the most amusing aspect of Gadhafi’s address was that all three cable news networks featured different spellings of his name on-screen while he spoke. Read more »
Artists having trouble getting seen at Art Basel Miami should consider surrendering their work to an inflammatory new installation. Street artist CELSO is staging Art Burn 2009, a brief exhibition of “combustible works on wood and paper” that will be torched in a blaze of glory. There’s no fee to submit, but only the “best works will be burned,” a painful critique for those deemed unworthy of destruction. |C-Monster|
Photo via El Celso
Who’s Having Their Period Today?
Twitter gives the world access to people’s most mundane details and it’s amazing how many women love to announce to the world that, yes, they’re on the rag. Here are today’s brave, bloated over-sharers. Read more »
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