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 »
An illicit tribute to graffiti writers has been vandalized, just days after going up. The lino-print portraits of IZ THE WIZ, TIE ONE and SACE have been mutilated, their heads lopped off and lacerated. Street artist Noh J. Coley plans to recreate his paper piece, which now illustrates why dead graffiti artists are rarely memorialized in anything but paint.
Photo by Noh J. Coley
WK Interact offers his sage advice for doomsday prophesiers: kill yourself. “If you believe the world will end in 2012 and you can’t do anything about it, maybe it’s better to blow yourself up when you feel like it.” More than likely, the New York-based street artist is only being so fatalist for the sake of his new show, an exhibition including skateboards equipped with pipe bombs and other ways to start a scene. The aptly titled “How to Blow Yourself Up” is on view through December 5th at Los Angeles’ Subliminal Projects.
“How to Blow Yourself Up,” November 7 – December 5, Subliminal Projects, 1331 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles
Conservative columnist Wesley Pruden on Barack Obama: It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of ‘the 57 states’ is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream. Read more »
Why these hip hop magazines don’t post this shit themselves before sites like ANIMAL scoop them I’ll never know, but here’s XXL’s 100 favorite Hip Hop Blogs list from their soon to be released December/January issue. Read more »
Here is John Mayer, perhaps the biggest modern celebrity enigma in terms of “is he or isn’t he a massive bag of douche?”, telling a nice NBC reporter about what he’d be doing if he weren’t a successful musician. Read more »
Soft Drink Giant Not Deterred By Rebranding Failures of Rival Soft Drink Giant
After successful redesigning some of its own packaging last year, today Coca Cola unveiled a unified look for all its juice brands, including Minute Maid. Unlike the abstract disaster Peter Arnell created for Pepsi-owned Tropicana, consumers probably won’t complain all that much about this new facelift, since, for one, it doesn’t totally suck. Secondly, who the hell drinks Minute Maid?
Banksy has been named one of Britain’s Top 50 Unsung Heroes. Lauded for vandalizing cities worldwide, the reclusive millionaire is praised for not totally outing himself and selling work via galleries and dealers, like most artists, street or otherwise. Read more »
Last summer, it was the bloody beach blankets of New Zealand. Now, this past weekend on the popular Bondi Beach, Australia’s Cancer Council laid out this cemetery of towels featuring dead body chalk outline designs and the message “don’t be a victim.” It was an intrusive Ad Creep promoting National Skin Cancer Action Week. The disease kills over 1,700 Aussies every year, their country being very beachy and hot as fucking hell. Predictably, the stunt garnered plenty of local TV coverage. No report on whether beach goers got to keep the towels. For a close-up shot of the terror towels, jump for the corresponding cheesy TV spot. Campaign by Euro RSCG. Read more »
Blu Puts Bogotá on Blast
Blu continues covering Bogotá with sobering street art. Following his cutting commentary on cocaine, the Italian wall animator painted this machine gun, turning Colombians into cadavers in the government’s pursuit of “libertad y orden,” or “liberty and order.”
Photo by Hey Presidente
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