Have you ever stopped for a moment to consider that the cast of Jersey Shore are all secretly a bunch of classically trained actors playing roles created for them and that we, those of us who love to mock and ridicule Snooki, J-Woww, Pauly-D and The Situation, are being played HARD? Nah, me neither, but I can almost guarantee that watching the Funny or Die video below will make you stop for at least a second to ponder that possibility. Read more »
Artist Andrew Hem is opening a solo exhibition in the new year, showing off his stylized portraits of urban life. Drawing on his native Cambodia, years writing graffiti and life in LA, Hem’s paintings feature an illustrated cast of characters alternately exuding energy or indifference, as in this starry eyed track bike rider admiring a molotov cocktail blaze. Culver City’s LeBasse Projects will exhibit this piece and others at the January opening of “One Leads to Another.” Read more »
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 »
Despite his distaste for advertising, unless it’s promoting himself, Banksy stars in a new promotion for LG. The electronics giant appropriated the semi-elusive artist’s name and stenciled rat as part of a commercial series featuring fellow internet celebrity the “Dramatic Chipmunk.” Read more »
Holy donkey balls Batman! I can’t remember the last time I’ve been so pumped to see a movie based solely on a trailer. This looks absolutely amazing! Ladies and gentlemen, meet Hit Girl, destined to be the most ubiquitous Halloween costume of 2010… Read more »
Artist Scott Teplin has designed a series of tiny homes that fit inside the letters of the alphabet. Outfitted with slot machines, ice cream parlors, wave rooms and missile silos, the delicately drawn dwellings are more exciting than your average cramped apartment, albeit less practical. Limited edition letter prints for spelling out words or hanging solo are available for $80, while the full collection is bound in 26 signed copies of Teplin’s $2000 book, “Alphabet City.”
Noted former(?) boner of Kate Moss, occasional musician Pete Doherty, was arrested AGAIN on Monday after he was found carrying heroin when he was busted for drunk driving. He was then released back into the wild after posting bail. Okay, two things…1) How is this dude still alive and 2) how many times are British authorities going to release him back into society before he kills someone? Jesus. |BBC|
Michael Steele, the self-proclaimed hip-hop leader of the Republican party, has been using his title as RNC chairman to bring home the Benjamins, “personally profiting from speeches with fees of up to $20,000 at colleges, trade associations and other groups,” according to the Washington Times. No word on whether or not Steele has made it rain at any of the DC-area’s renowned titty palaces since becoming so flush with cizash. |Yahoo! News|
As if you needed any more proof that the middle of the country is a very scary place, a bank in Indiana released this footage of an armed suspect robbing the place while rocking a frightening “old man” Halloween mask. |Fox59|
Ghastly images of conjoined twins and sinister forest people feature in Last Rites Gallery’s year end exhibitions. Craig LaRotonda’s “From The Ashes Of Angels” highlights a series of reflective paintings of pale people that Johnny Depp finds both “enchanting and unnerving.” Meanwhile, Swamp Thing-type creatures tromp through Paul Gerrard’s foggy scenes, digitally rendered in “Skins From The Shadow Circle.”
“From the Ashes of Angels,” “Skins From the Shadow Circle,” December 5 – December 27, Last Rites Gallery, 511 W. 33rd St
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