Parting Shot: Final Countdown
With a skyline display, Chicago is counting the days until October 2nd, when a decision will be made on the city’s 2016 Olympic bid. |JPG|
Photo by Leatheia Brady Rhodes
Billboard liberator and Popagandist, Ron English, was responsible for hiring the skywriting plane that spelled out the word “cloud” five times over the city this morning. In an interview earlier this year, English said “these actual clouds will be for sale,” but there’s still no word on pricing for the artistic condensation. Video of the sky tagging project after the jump.
Photo by Will Sherman/ANIMALnewyork.com
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Cool Anti-Obama Street Art
The folks over at Infowars.com continue to find new and wildly strange ways to adapt the Obama-Joker image for their propaganda. Here’s some posters spotted in Los Angeles depicting the president as a pregnant elitist with a belly full of swine flu, a striking parody of a certain snooty magazine’s iconic cover.
Photo by Lord Jim
It’s no secret that bicycles are one of the quickest ways to travel the city, regularly pedaling faster than cars and transit. But how well would a two-wheeler fare if its competition wasn’t always mired in traffic? The São Paulo Intermodal Challenge made plans to find out, pitting bicycle riders against a helicopter passenger for a point to point race featuring buses, cars, feet, subway and even a wheelchair. Read more »
Thanks to a planned pedestrian plaza in Brooklyn, the NYPD will no longer be able to park vehicles on the sidewalks, making residents happy: “I’m glad the DOT has recognized that there are better uses for sidewalks than parking.” And cops pissed: “It’s not a very bright idea. There’s literally nowhere for us to park around here. That’s why we’re on the sidewalk in the first place.” |NYDN|
Apparently taking a cue from Shepard Fairey’s fight against graffiti, the Los Angeles City Council is considering an ordinance requiring all buildings to have an anti-graffiti coating at least nine feet high. An alternative to using impermeable tile surfaces, the clear coating “often discolors the surface of buildings and is not always environmentally friendly” so the motion provides an exception. Property owners can skip the anti-graffiti treatment if they sign a contract agreeing to clean up vandalism within seven days or 72 hours of being told to do so by police. |NBC|
Photo by ALPC
A new book detailing the results of an extensive study on female sexuality confirms something most marginally perceptive people probably already knew: Woman seek sex for a variety of complex emotional and psychological reasons, while men seek sex mainly to get off. |Newsweek|
Just so you can fill your daily quota of listening to an old person wistfully remembering the good ole days, here is semi-blowhardy writer person Gay Talese explaining how the technological innovations, in this case the tape recorder, have “killed journalism,” i.e. made it impossible for him and others of his ilk to get magazine editors to dish out thousands of dollars on airfare, 4-star hotel suites and expensive dinners to obtain a story. But alas, those days are long gone. Nevertheless, Talese is tells a good story. Read more »
The Story of Randy and Evi Quaid Grows Even More Bizarre
It probably goes without saying that I’ve been sort of captivated by the escapades of Randy Quaid and his wife Evi of late. The kooky pair were arrested last week in Marfa, Texas for skipping out on hotel bills and various other sorts of activities involving swindling people out of money. New details about the Quaids emerged today, and it’s all just downright wacky. Read more »
Taking advantage of vacant storefronts and buildings, No Longer Empty organizes art events to breathe life into fallow spaces. The non-profit group opens an art exhibition this weekend at the former Brooklyn belt factory that birthed the “Invisible Dog” gag for which the show is named. One of many featured artists reflecting on the history and setting of the space, Tom Sanford painted this mural, titled “L&L Taxi (Motherless Brooklyn),” in reference to the taxi and detective agency of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, fictionally located on the same block. “Invisible Dog” opens on October 3rd from 6 to 9 PM at 51 Bergen St. in Cobble Hill.
Photo via Tom Sanford
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