When it was first reported that a Liverpool pub with a massive Banksy rat painted on it would hit the market, the BBC said it had the potential to sell for almost $1.5 million (£1m). Well, they were off, but only by about $1,370,000. It ended up selling for $176,00 (£114,000) which was just about $50k over it’s opening bid of $127k. Smartly, the new owners said, “We’ll probably keep the artwork but we’ll do all the rest of the work that needs doing first.”
“All of a sudden a freaking zebra comes running down the street like a car. Five or six police cars were in hot pursuit. And a bunch of officers on foot. But then I got scared, thinking … what else is loose?”
Perhaps you’ve seen or heard of Coco Rocha. She’s a fairly well-known “supermodel” who has graced the covers of fancy magazines and all that other stuff that supermodels do. She recently created a bit of a buzz when she mentioned that at 6’0” 105lbs, she’s considered “fat” by the powers that be within the fashion world. She lamented, “I’m not in demand for shows any more. I’ve been told to lose weight even though I am really skinny.” Now today she’s posted a, well, let’s call it a manifesto since that word’s popular today, to her blog (A supermodel with a blog!) in which she basically bitchslaps the entire industry, comparing fashion big-wigs to child-labor sweatshop owners and tobacco industry executives. Read more »
Apparently, it “doesn’t get much better” than a portrait of the “face that created Facebook.” For $55-$1400 you can have a freshly Fed-Exed print of the awkward Harvardian billionaire (in 2007), previously published by Wired Magazine (in 2007).
Personally, this passport picture blow-up isn’t my cup of tea, as even fridge magnets with faces tend to make me uneasy (stop looking at me, Ziggy Stardust!). I guess if you’re tinkering with some possibly lucrative internet doohickey, Emily Shur‘s portrait of Mark Zuckerberg’s unyielding stare could replace the “Hang In There Kitty.” Read more »
Photographer Steve DeMent shot some telling photos of the charred-out home that Austin Kamikaze pilot Joseph Andrew Stack lit fire before he jumped in a plane and crashed into a seven-story building housing government offices earlier this afternoon. Luckily, his wife and child survived, but the house isn’t likely to share the same fate.
Photos: Steve DeMent
Ding-ding! New film rumor time: Oscar-nominated rookie director Oren Moverman is pegged for Universal Picture’s untitled Kurt Cobain project. Apparently, that’s still happening and hasn’t been done over to death yet, proving that Hollywood is super insensitive for continually propagating the whole myth about suicide being an awesome way to stay famous. Read more »
Anticipating a whole lotta boinking would go down in the Olympic Village over the course of this year’s winter games, organizers distributed 100,000 condoms to the 7,000 or so athletes assembled there. That’s 14 condoms per person. The curlers even got their own custom-made condom, pictured at left. I knew I should have taken up figure skating as a kid…Julia Mancuso FTW! |MSNBC|
Here’s a rather shameless odd use of graffiti marketing. Street cred needy cell phone carrier, MetroPCS, hired graffiti writers like COPE, MISTER CARTOON and SEN2 to paint three of their stores in Harlem and the Bronx. And we’re not talking cutesy, colorful murals either. They were commissioned to do tags and fill ins, although they did let everyone know this was “sanctioned.” Now if someone could just explain why. Closeups of the Harlem location below. Read more »
Have the Olympics always been so god damn long? Seriously, I don’t recall 17 terrible days of mind-numbing non-sports being “played” by small men in ill-fitting S&M gear. Also, have the Winter Olympics always been so god damn boring? I can’t see how one could legitimately be interested in some of this shit. We all know that they’re retarded (and not in the fun Special Olympics way), so let’s just come to terms with their mediocrity already. Read more »
As you may have heard, earlier today a man in Austin, Texas now known to be Andrew Joseph Stack set his house on fire and then crashed a plane into an office tower housing federal agencies. As is often the case in the internet age, details about Stack are coming quickly to light. Here’s what’s known about him so far. Read more »
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