A new study has found that teens who listen to music that mentions weed are more likely to smoke weed. However, the study found that music with references to other “high risk behaviors” did not increase the likelihood of teens indulging in those activities, indicating that teens who smoke weed seek out songs whose lyrics relate to weed-smoking. Shocking! |MSNBC|
People celebrate the holidays in all sorts of warm and joyous ways, nodding out in subway stations included.
Photo by Bucky Turco/ANIMALnewyork
Former mountain bike champion and newly self-confessed drug trafficker, Missy Giove, could face 40 years and a $2 million fine for her role in coordinating shipments of weed from Cali to the East Coast. She was busted in upstate New York earlier this year with approximately 400 lbs. of weed and on Monday, in federal court, admitted her full involvement. There’s a lesson to be learned here kids: stick to what you’re good at. |Times Union|
London’s University of the Arts picked a particularly good show as their Arts Gallery’s last. Mike Ballard, also known as CEPT, created an all encompassing installation, painting his “flamboyant vision of art history” in bold black and white across the walls, floor and ceiling. Considering the gallery will be torn down after the show to make way a train line, it’s fitting that Ballard gave it his graphically immersive show, “The All of Everything,” as a final sendoff.
“The All of Everything,” December 10 – Demolition, The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts, London
Following in the footsteps of their English countrymen, authorities in Scotland will start using the cocaine torch to inspect the noses of partygoers for contraband. |BBC|
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 »
Sure, there’s been a massive crater in downtown Manhattan for over eight years now and it will probably take till forever to build the so called Freedom Tower, but at least one company is taking advantage of the gross ineptitude at Ground Zero. Read more »
While much of the city was snowed in this past weekend, photographer Bryan Derballa was out with friends sliding on the Williamsburg Bridge. With those lawsuit-causing bumps long gone, the trio packed their own mini jumps to shred and sled the snowy pathway on old skateboard decks. Though the bridges may be clear out of white stuff right now, that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use some inspiration for the next snowfall. |Love Bryan|
Photos by Bryan Derballa
To show you just how seriously some people in the South take football and Christmas lighting displays in the South, witness this New Orleans-area home where the blinking lights on the house have been synchronized with the song “The Saints Are Coming” as performed by Green Day and U2, a popular rallying cry of the local New Orleans Saints fans. Read more »
A Spanish artist has been accused of faking this extremely awesome photo of a wolf, not with any Photoshop phoniness, but with a zoo animal. José Luis RodrÃguez won a $16k prize from the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for his shot of a supposedly wild wolf jumping a gate, but is said to have broken the rules by using a tame animal, one named Ossian living at the Madrid Zoo, according to The Guardian. Read more »
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