Photographers should print out this internal notice and all its red redactions, keep it tucked in the camera bag and pull it out next time the cops tell you it’s illegal to photograph federal building exteriors in the city, hassles you or tries to take your camera. Read more »
Before graphic design fags totally blast NBC’s shockingly boring new logo, it should be noted that it’s only being used for internal purposes. The peacock will still be incorporated on all public communications, but still, I’m not sure if blandness is the message Comcast management wants to send to employees as it swallows up the news network.
New York City public schools suspend twice as many students as they did in 2005, because suspension has become the fashionable disciplinary method. The upshot: it’s a lot easier to deal with schoolkids when they’re not in class chewing their Hubba Bubba and yelling crazy stuff at each other. Almost makes you wonder why we even bother having schools in the first place.
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While most of the city’s residents took cover during last night’s thundersnow storms, others migrated to Staten Island, frolicked about while wearing furry costumes and lit off flares in a park. (Photo: Tod Seelie)
Artist Kenny Scharf opens two shows in two of Paul Kasmin Gallery’s spaces today. The wildly different exhibits are open to the public and even well behaved graffiti writers are invited. Read more »
Today, authorities executed search warrants on suspects from the hive-minded hacker group known as Anonymous. In the U.S., the FBI served 40 search warrants and in the UK, the Metropolitan Police arrested 5 people. According to the FBI press release, officials in Germany, France, and the Netherlands “have also taken their own investigative and enforcement actions” against those who were allegedly involved with the Operation Payback attacks that crippled several of websites operated by the companies that fucked over WikiLeaks.
London’s GV Art Gallery’s “Brainstorm” group show is stirring up trouble with their use of human tissue, but it looks quite heavenly in peace in Helen Pynor’s contribution to show, the Headache print. See more floating organs strung up with poetry, Poisonous Sores and Tooth Abscesses, not dismembered… suspended.
I’m not sure what exactly triggered it or when it was, but a while back Megan McCain blocked me from following her on Twitter. Since that time, she has matured politically and transformed herself into a rare breed of Republican who isn’t afraid to say what most of the should be thinking. Read more »
Unlike the first subway rat video where riders were entirely too laid-back as a face-crawling rodent scampered about a 4-train, NYCtheBlog has footage of another subway rat and this time, everyone reacts just as you’d expect: They curse and scurry! Read more »
Miss Coney? Come see its roots: all those incandescent electric fun parks (that so often burned out), terrible freak shows, funny bathing clothes and mustaches and the public electrocution of Topsy the elephant in vintage photographs. Also on display: “a charred remnant of a Steeplechase wooden horse,” one of many olde rides that look very fun and very, very unsafe. And fun. Nickel Empire: Coney Island Photographs 1889-1948, Jan 27 – Feb 26, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, NYC
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