Holy shit this is dumb: state Sen. Carl Kruger wants to prohibit pedestrians from crossing streets and using their iPods, iPhones, and other devices at the same time. Up next: a ban on simultaneous walking and gum-chewing, and another against breathing through your mouth. Read more »
Although we seriously doubt that Ricky Gervais would even know how to hold a can of spray paint, a supporter of his does. Someone recently put up this very accurate message on the Beverly Hills Hilton, the venue where the comedian hilariously roasted celebrities during the Golden Globes. (Photo: MelroseandFairfax)
Medical weed patients will soon have another option to ingest their medicine besides vaporizers and baked goods: soft drinks. A California based company plans on rolling out a line of cannabis laced sodas to dispensaries in Colorado, where things are happily progressing. Read more »
And after all that anticipatory hoopla, people agree that the VIP Art Fair was more like a VIP Art Fail. Between crashes and privacy violations, the first internet art fair has a lot of kinks to iron out.
Behind these glass peep holes are Patrick Jacobs’s meticulously constructed 3D dioramas from “vellum, acrylic, gel medium, polyurethane, extruded styrene, hair, ash…” — portals to near-real rolling fields and mushroom clusters. Seriously, good thing these holes aren’t large enough for visitors to try to climb through, away from the cold and into the grass forever and ever and ever. “Familiar Terrain,” Patrick Jacobs, Jan 21 – Feb 20, Pierogi, Brooklyn
These friendly blow-up dolls installations from the PMS Collective bring up all sort of aesthetic and philosophical queries, all floating around the concepts of “ready-made art,” “linguistic dominance” and “genital frostbite.” Unlike their Poland Is Far From Heaven snow poke “graffiti,” it’s simply heartwarming. Read more »
Congratulations to street art and more specifically Banksy, his Exit Through the Gift Shop documentary, which is too impossible to be real, was nominated for an Academy Award.
Going beyond the oppressive anti-smoking measures being implemented by the city, CUNY will ban smoking on all its campuses, including outdoor areas reports the Daily News. That shouldn’t be too hard to enforce, right? Especially at Hunter College’s very public location on 68th Street and Lexington.
“Starving gallerist” Guy Bérubé is hot about saving his Ottawa gallery by renting it out as a porn set. He’s got “moral questions,” but he already rents the place out for shindigs, he’ll charge double for porn and it’s dubbed Le Petite Mort Gallery (“the little death,” what those fatalistic French call orgasms), so surely most of those “questions” can be solved with taped tarp and soap. Read more »
This handy map from Pleated Jeans turns USA stats into a cartographic parade of obesity, corruption and gonorrhea. It’s ugly, and not just in North Dakota. Alaska’s damn dreadful though, huh? (Sorry Yanks, no refunds!) Best case scenario, you weasel in between porny Utah and cokey Colorado and stay put. And then there’s New York’s terrible problem of… daily commute average of 30.6 minutes? Really? That’s our biggest problem? Read more »
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