Parting Shot
Artist Vladimir Turner is not dead. He hasn’t been violently dismembered. Read more »
Central Park, a place where cyclists used to ride in relative peace—while weaving through wandering rollerbladers, stroller-pushing mom herds, and lane hugging drivers—is the new front in the war on bikes. The NYPD has been aggressively ticketing cyclists who don’t stop at every light and so they’re fighting back, with an online petition.
According to one soon to be deposed leader, yes! Discounting 42 years of absolute rule, Muammar Gaddafi’s voice went on state TV to explain the real reasons for the unrest: Osama bin Laden and drugs. It’s all part of al Qaeda’s plan to get the people of Libya high. “They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe,” said Gaddafi.
September 11 Flip Book is a new project by Scott Blake. It’s a pocket replay of those traumatic few seconds that have been broadcast over and over and over again on TV, etched into our retinas forever. Read more »
A group of millionaires—not to be confused with people who earn $200k a year—say they’re opposed to the so-called Millionaires tax, because it causes other millionaires to flee New York. And that’s bad. It’s also untrue. Read more »
Speaking of rip-offs, this ain’t. This is a compilation of homages in Kill Bill, side by side with the original films that Quentin Tarantino loves so well. You can’t call it a rip-off, since he’s based his entire career on stitching together glossy reenactments of his favorite film bits. Read more »
According to a new study, pollution caused by traffic (7.4%) triggered the most heart attacks worldwide, compared to say coffee (5%), air pollution (4.8%) or sexual activity (2.2%). Although cocaine was most likely to increase the risks for heart attacks, only a small amount of people party, so it only accounted for less than 1 percent overall. Drivers beware!
See old walls blow up, their crusty bits rotating in the sparks and smoke. The mess recedes to reveal etchings from Vhils in this collaborative video with Orelha Negra. After 8 months of tests, it’s very climactic.
Kanye’s spastic neon titles in the Hype Williams-directed video for ‘All of the Lights’ are identical to those in the first two minutes of Gaspar Noé’s Tokyo junkie epic Enter the Void. Comparatively (below), Ye’s are a bit simpler and spell out all that “fast cars and shooting stars” nonsense. Read more »
Donald Rumsfeld has a book out so he has been hitting the media circuit, including an appearance on the Daily Show last night. In the extended interviews posted online, Jon Stewart lukewarmly grills him on the decision to invade Iraq and he shot back that the “world is a better place” without Saddam Hussein and therefore he can’t be too mad at that war, adding, he was a “brutal dictator.” Which is as true now as it was when Rumsfeld shook hands with him in 1983 as a special envoy to the Middle East.
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