Reading Into “Piecebook Reloaded”

piecebook1Following up last year’s release, “Piecebook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers,” CHINO and Sacha Jenkins are publishing another collection of old school blackbook drawings. Titled “Piecebook Reloaded,” the new release picks up where they left off, featuring practice illustrations, sketches and outlines from 1985 to 2005 by notorious graffiti writers including COPE 2, CYCLE, GHOST, JONONE and REAS. Selected and scanned from many sketchbooks, the pieced pages have reassembled like a true blackbook. “When possible we scanned both sides of the illustrations so we could print the ink bleed through on the backside of the page,” says CHINO. Like its previous incarnation, the book also comes stocked with blank pages so people can add their own work. Published by Prestel USA, “Piecebook Reloaded” will be available in early October, but you can preview some pages after the jump. Read more »

By on September 25, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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Sarah Palin Gives a Shoutout to the Jews

Sarah Palin, she of the folksy twang and big hair and word soup-y diatribes lauding Alaskan oil, American military might, and moose chili, has issued a very special holiday wish to all the Jews of the world via her Facebook page, which she is obviously not writing. Read more »

By on September 25, 2009 at 3:08 pm
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That Amazingly Consistent Obama Smile

This week the Obama’s hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for important foreign people in town for the conference at the UN. During the course of the reception, the Barack and Michelle Obama posed for over 130 photos. My friend Eric Spiegelman pulled the photos from the State Department’s Flickr page and compiled this 20 second video of each one flashing by. Watch the video below as our president’s smile barely moves throughout the entire series, almost like he’s a cardboard cutout or something. Read more »

By on September 25, 2009 at 2:46 pm
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Bank of America Sued By Angry Customer for ’1,784 billion, trillion dollars’

Anyone who’s ever had any dealings with Bank of America has come away hyper-aware of this universal truth: Bank of America sucks more camel’s balls than any entity in the history of free enterprise. Seriously, they’re the fucking worse. So it should come as no surprise that one fed-up customer named Dalton Chiscolm has filed what may be the most hilarious lawsuit in the history of the American legal system against Bank of America for their exceedingly shitty customer service. Read more »

By on September 25, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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Who’s Having Their Period Today?

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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 »

By on September 25, 2009 at 1:54 pm
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Law Enforcement Isn’t Playing Around at the G20

Having you paying attention to any of the coverage of the security crackdown at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh? Because these people, whoever they are, ain’t playing around! Basically, the entire city is engulfed in a giant cloud of tear gas, which I suppose is better than having the streets filled with blood from police baton beatdowns. Regardless, I have no idea what this kid in the video below did to basically get tossed like a beanbag into the back of a police cruiser, probably picked his nose and wiped a booger on a police barracade or something, not do I have any idea who these military-looking dudes are making the arrest but come on! Read more »

By on September 25, 2009 at 1:15 pm
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Forget all those scary monsters that have been steadily washing up, here’s a real life maritime creature that will scare the shit out of you: the Eastern Pacific black ghostshark. The new species of “cartilaginous fish” is a relative of the shark and was recently discovered in California waters. |ScienceDaily|

By on September 25, 2009 at 1:07 pm
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The Daily Show’s John Oliver At the G20

G20: Daily Show's John Oliver Although the The Daily Show isn’t on tonight, you won’t have to wait till next week to see some footage of Senior British Correspondent, John Oliver, reporting from the protester-filled streets of Pittsburgh during the G20. Watch a clip of the fake newsman dropping “F” bombs while rehearsing a segment in front of a wall of riot-clad police after the jump.

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By on September 25, 2009 at 12:20 pm
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Here’s video of Bono endorsing Mayor Bloomberg during last night’s U2 concert at Giant Stadium. He must not be a big fan of public referendums. |Gothamist|

By on September 25, 2009 at 11:39 am
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According to the Washington Post’s Metro columnist, the Freemasons aren’t plotting global domination or trying to usher in a new world order, they just want some pizza and Diet Coke. |WaPo|

By on September 25, 2009 at 11:02 am
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