Parting Shot: Dressed to Kill
Here’s some street art that Sarah Palin could get down with: ADRES painted Little Red Riding Hood getting ready for some wolf hunting. |Unurth|
Photo by Adres
Can someone please tell the fuckwits who run Tokion that people don’t care about turning pages on a digital magazine—it’s clumsy and dumb. And forget complaining about permalinks, they don’t even have a website with content anymore, quite possibly making it the most irrelevant magazine on the planet. |Tokion|
Now that street art has been fully adopted by the right and a certain community organizing group’s members were caught acting like sleazy assholes on video, someone has been spray painting hooker-inspired anti-ACORN messages around Los Angeles, even targeting presidential darling and staunch lefty Shepard Fairey. Despite the graphic vandal’s anti-graffiti measures, the rabble-rousers managed to stencil his liberal design lair with their conservative “ACORN Funded Prostitution Zone” propaganda. |TheEastsiderLA|
Most of the time, I “work” from home. Such is often the luxury of someone who writes shit for money. To that end, I often “work” with the television on and tuned to either CNN, ESPN or MSNBC. Typically, I pay only passive attention to it and it’s usually just background noise I use to avoid the distracting uncomfortableness brought about by complete silence. However, my antennae, always tuned in to whatever’s going on in my periphery, will often catch things that pop up on the tube while I’m working, just as they did today when CNN reported about a New Hampshire 12th English teacher who posed the following essay question to her students: “If you knocked your brother down, would you urinate in his mouth?” Read more »
Remember those sumo wrestler-sized jellyfish that get tangled up in fisherman’s nets? Well, students from Obama, Japan have come up with a genius plan for utilizing the aquatic menace: turn them into caramel candy for astronauts visiting the International Space Station. |PinkTentacle|
It’s never too early to start with street art. Culvert-crawling artist Judith Supine apparently found some very young Italian interns to help paste up his work and keep an eye out for la polizia.
Photo by Patrice Rodan via Judith Supine
With the country still hemorrhaging and Detroit even poorer than it was before the economic crisis, it’s nice to know that at least one federal agency has a new pleasure craft to enjoy. Customs and Border Protection has been tooling around the Detroit River on their new tricked-out patrol boat. The 43-foot vessel sports four 350hp motors, a thermal camera, and mounted machine guns. So what’s the price tag for this kind of maritime fun? A lot: “The prototype costs about $550,000 and contains another $350,000 worth of electronics.” |DetroitNews|
And the Winner of the Sarah Palin Lunch Auction is…The Church Lady!
Meet Cathy Maples of Huntsville, Alabama, a God-fearing “real” American lady who claims to own a defense contracting company and bears a striking resemblance to Dana Carvey in drag. Last week Maples bid $63,500 to “win” the recent eBay auction for a lunch date with America’s sweetheart, Sarah Palin. This morning Maples paid a visit to the folksy vegetables over at Fox & Friends, where she said that she hopes Palin runs for president in 2012 because “we need somebody with ethics” in the White House. Read more »
As an art therapy of sorts or just plain fun, Rafaël Rozendaal is offering gallery-goers the chance to smash some bottles. His “Broken Self Sculpture,” stocked with piles of glass to shatter, is on display at Berlin’s AFK Sculpture Park through September 26th. Watch the strobe-lit destruction after the jump. Read more »
Over the weekend we learned that authorities believe recently arrested terror suspect Najibullah Zazi planned to attack various fashion week events. Surely, this left many non-New Yorkers wondering, “Why would those meanie terrorists want to blow up the nice, fancy fashion people?” Well here’s a video that pretty much captures exactly why! Read more »
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