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 »
A couple South Korean designers have an idea to minimize the damage caused by graffiti writers and other aerosol artists. The Color Dial Spray is a concept proposed by Kim Youngsuk and Kim Woosik that uses four refillable cartridges to reduce waste as compared to an empty rattle can. Read more »
As the artist-in-residence at Cornell Univeristy, Brandon Bird gave his students an interesting holiday project: write letters to oddball actor Christopher Walken. Bird has assembled a “Letters to Walken” gallery on his website, Brandonbird.com.
Here’s the Van that Plunged Times Square Into Chaos
So here’s a close-up of that suspicious white van that shut down Times Square earlier and as you can tell, it was just stuffed with crap, not explosives. Bonus side angle below. Read more »
The New York Review of Books is just getting around to reviewing Going Rogue in their January 14, 2010 issue, and it is amazing. Written by Jonathan Raban, it’s an exceedingly honest and downright devastating analysis of the Palin phenomenon that has swept America in the past year. Here’s an excerpt: Read more »
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- Mappa by Alighiero e Boetti
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- Mappa by Alighiero e Boetti
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- Mappa by Alighiero e Boetti
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- Mappa by Alighiero e Boetti
Starting in 1969, Alighiero e Boetti began a series of world map tapestries with each country colored with its flag. Individually hand-sewn by Afghani embroiders, who toiled for years on just one piece, the Italian artist’s carpet collection was updated almost annually until his death in 1994. “Mappa,” a retrospective of these wildly hued rugs and their changing geopolitical boundaries, is currently being hosted at Gladstone Gallery’s 21st Street location in Chelsea.
“Mappa,” November 7 – January 23, 2010, Gladstone Gallery, 530 West 21st Street
Watch the Suspicious Van In Times Square Live
Have you heard? Times Square was shut down because a crappy white van has been parked there for two days and authorities are worried that it could be packed with explosives. Well, thankfully, the folks at Fox News are livestreaming and you can now gawk from a safe distance (after being forced to watch what seems like an endless Viagra commercial). UPDATE: False alarm! The NYPD has given the ‘all clear,’ no more news here, move along!
Diddy, being the friend to the poor and imbibed that he is, wants to help your drunk ass get back to your shitty New York City studio apartment on New Year’s Eve: Read more »
Buju Banton, unlike most dancehall artists, actually makes money and the record label that he founded isn’t screwing around with Amerikkka’s legal system when it comes to their top earner and his alleged cocaine dealing. So, his people hired Miami-based attorney David Oscar Markus, who Jamaica’s Gleaner describes as a “rising star” in the criminal defense field. What’s so great about this guy? Well, for starters, he’s a Harvard Law School grad, has won all sorts of awards for being a “super lawyer” under 40-years-old, represented some major cartel kingpins, and most importantly, has an impressive success rate when it comes to drug cases. |The Gleaner|
The Nigerian trust fund brat, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas day has a rich online history filled with tormented rants about how horny and desperate for a piece of pussy he was. Read more »
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