Web artist Mark Beasley’s latest project is 333DDD, “a javascript bookmarklet that converts images on the current page into red/cyan anaglyphs.” Just bookmark this link, go to a new page and click the bookmark. All of a sudden, these aren’t the only pairs of 3D boobs out there. It’s DIY 3D-fest time!
Artifacts! Not only will residents benefit from an environmental cleanup of the Gowanus Canal, but also archaeologists. According to the New York Times, there’s a good likelihood that historical treasures from the Revolutionary War or other eras will be uncovered beneath the muck and chemical debris. The Environmental Protection Agency will be in charge of managing the superfund site and reportedly does a thorough job documenting and preserving what bubbles to the surface. (Photo: edwhitaker/flickr)
The auteur of hacks James Frey is self-publishing The Final Testament of the Holy Bible wherein an alcoholic bi Jesus lives in the Bronx, smokes weed, preggos a prostitute and shits on religion. Please don’t confuse this with actual social commentary. Frey’s only in it for the trendy controversy. Like his trendy fabricated junky memoir or his trendy supernatural teen thriller ghostwritten by pimped, underpaid students, it’s all about lucrative genre peddling. Gallery owner Larry Gagosian joins the hustle to publish 11,000 copies of the book and drop it on Good Friday, on purpose.
A word to the wise above a door to something mysterious happening in New Orleans. (Photo: Tod Seelie)
Don’t let the official-looking Australian Radiation Services logo fool you, this map is a fake. In the past few days, the image purporting to show Japan’s nuclear fallout raining down on the western coast of the U.S. if a meltdown occurs at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor spread online. Read more »
Small adorable spawn of street art and public interventionist, Influenza, is making his daddy proud. Check out junior spray-painted cats and large-shoed humanoids. Aw. “Fatherly, responsible, proud dad influenza guides his son in his first steps through the world of visual language…” Indeed. Read more »
Starting at midnight, the NYPD will actively hunt down drivers who talk on hand held cell phones will operating a motor vehicle and issue them $100 tickets (and 2 points on the license). You’ve been warned.
Taking a cue from the city’s oppressive ban on smoking in public places like parks and beaches, Waterside Plaza in Manhattan has recently imposed similar sanctions. Despite the vast amount of outdoor space, smokers will now only be permitted to light up in designated areas near the sprawling complex’s residential towers or there’s always the secondary option: Peter Cooper Village.
Filmmaker, visual artist, occasional crooner and big fish catcher David Lynch will show twenty new paintings and sculptures this month at the William Griffin Gallery, including this perfect pyro-triptych Boy Lights Fire above. Expect many lamps. Read more »
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