Parting Shot: Heads Up

As part of his recently opened “Native Expatriots” exhibit at FIFTY24SF Gallery, artist Rico Deniro gave rural Mexicans images of pop culture icons, then asked that they recreate them as traditional wooden masks. (Photo: Fecal Face)

The NYPD thinks will assign over 600 cops to guard the so called “Freedom Tower,” but unless they’ll be flying around in F-16s, this is supposed to prevent another terrorist attack how exactly?

Rand Paul’s iPhone Protector Made By Fred Flintstone

Paleolibertarian U.S. senator from Kentucky Rand Paul has an iPhone protector carved out of bedrock, as an Associated Press photo reveals. The protector allows Paul to call people who were alive tens of thousands of years ago and tap them for new ideas on how to move America forward. (Photo: AP/Politico)

Elle Muliarchyk Makes Wolf Rape Arty

Photographer Elle Muliarchyk’s Psychic/Dossier series blew up at the end of last year, but psychics… dresses… Ok, there’s more fun to this Belarusia-born, the World-raised adventurer who gives model-turned-anythings a good name. Read about her younger years of couture theft and recent shoots influenced by her “crazy sexual dreams as a teenager,” gawk above and see her Lynchian videos.

Skirting the Apocalypse


José Luis Fariñas’s 2011 series of detailed watercolors is reminiscent of masters Hans Bellmer and Hieronymus Bosch, but more delicate and… avian? See “embryonic skin, floating egg sacs, and fleshy pustules” dribbled out of dreams and the Book of Genesis below and at his upcoming solo show. “Skirting the Apocalypse,” José Luis Fariñas, Jan 20 – Feb 19, Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects, NYC

Don’t Buy a Birthday Gun for Your Kid

In South Carolina, a teenager shot his dad and great-aunt to death with a rifle he’d received as a birthday present. He also shot and injured his grandmother. The kid’s dad had bought the gun for his beloved son. Not a very good idea, that. Read more »

As we’ve mentioned, the city has whittled its Taxi of Tomorrow competition down to three finalists. Now here’s a look at the ones that have no chance in hell of ever being adopted, but are still fun to look at.

EVGrieve confirmed that the security cameras installed to protect Kenny Scharf’s mural on Houston Street are hooked up and currently surveilling the wall and therefore, the public space in front of it as well. Smile!

Drunk Streets and Painted Blurtography

These slurring lights and blurry cabs look like the viewfinder of a camera after an attempt to capture the street on a late night of drunken merriment. But these images aren’t photos. They’re oil paintings from artist Alexandra Pacula who wants us to feel “wonder and disorientation.” Anyone else wants to fast forward to their next night off, just from looking at these?

Pale Male and Lola Break Up

Pale Male and Lola (pictured), New York City’s famous red-tailed hawk couple, are no longer together. Heartbreaking I know. Bird experts told the Post that Lola is probably dead, which would explain why Pale has already found a new female, since hawks normally mate for life… so it’s not like he’s a player or anything. Read more »