Photographer Michael Wolf’s latest series of Google Street View series crops Manhattan — and all its pig carcass-hauling, finger-flipping character — into art. Provided for contest: cuts from Paris Street View, wherein any Wolf-chosen assembly of people and gestures is positively cinematic… erm, cinématographique.
Normally, if a lone Republican councilman was ranting about a piece of bike legislation I’d mostly ignore him, but with the vitriolic stream of anti-cycling dialogue currently being fueled by the media over the past year or so, you may want to pay attention to Eric Ulrich’s proposed bike tagging bill. Read more »
Should a $33 billion website dictate your web-self? Should you languish inside Facebook’s sterile blue-white cyberspace or wouldn’t you rather have a Dislike button, a Kanye West speak comment generator or neon colors erupting from your profile? Artist/designer/hacktivist TBX can help. Read more »
The next wave backlash to Deitch’s censoriship of Blu’s mural comes in the form of these Don’t Be Blu, Practice Safe Art condoms from L.A. Raw, the group behind the “Dump Deitch” laser graffiti protest. Great cause, catchy catchphrase… flawed metaphor? Read more »
The Daily News blasts the NYPD’s three-wheeling scooters that are currently deployed at several of the city’s most trafficked subway stations, noting how impractical they are in a transit system with stairs. Then there’s the height issue with many officers forced to duck to avoid ceiling pipes. So, although they’re probably fun tool around on, in the event that an actual crime is committed, ineffective. They’re also ghey!
The Only Thing More Memorable than Ricky Gervais Was…
Jane Fonda’s nip slip. Kidding! Host Ricky Gervais won the Golden Globes on Sunday night. He took what is normally a predictable program and made it into a watchable awards show (until he went missing: #freeRickyGervais). And he did it at Hollywood’s expense, bravo! Read more »
Someone is having a field day with rapper Lil Wayne’s Twitter. You can check out the real time vandalism over at @LilChinetu or read the less fun, but real Weezy-maintained account at @LilTunechi. UPDATE: After several hours, Wayne got his account back: @TheLilTunechi Read more »
As it turns out, Jared Lee Loughner didn’t just make strange text-based videos and upload them to YouTube, he also made this camera-shaky tour of the community college he attended that he entitled, the “Pima Community College School – Genocide/Scam – Free Education – Broken United States Constitution.” Read more »
Parting Shot: Chivalrous
During Art Basel, Tristan Eaton put up this piece in Miami, but it was recently stolen and while heisting street art isn’t anything new, switching it out with an exact wheatpaste replica is. Substituted clone below: Read more »
Because the public demands such information, the TSA’s Blogger Bob has written a post about the status of Louboutin spikes in the hierarchy of banned objects. What happens if you show up with such shoes at an airport checkpoint–will you be let through? Um, maybe! And what about other spiky stuff? Um, maybe not! Read more »
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